Historic rehab credit headed for changes?

A committee of the National Park System Advisory Board met this past week in Washington to work on ways of improving the review process for the federal historic rehabilitation tax credit. Scroll down within the National Housing & Rehabilitation Association front page to find an account of the meeting. It says recommendations made included smoothing and speeding the review process and charging developers a fee to help pay for it. NPS has more on the committee's work and the members' backgrounds over here. The same site makes available a 36-page document from Aug. 2004 in which the Park Service responds to previous "recommendations for improvement." The site also invites further comments from the public.