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SPECIFICATIONS

LONG-RANGE INTERPRETIVE PLANS

General Purpose and Scope

Interpretation

Compliance

Accessibility

Policy

Decision making

Workshop Documentation

Plan Contents

General Requirements

Contents

Covers

Plan Purpose Statement

Foundations Section

Recommendations Section

Implementation Plan

Media Report

Appendices

Executive Summary

Design and Layout

Overall Layout

Typography

Graphics

Printing and Binding

Full LRIP

Executive Summary

Attachment 1

General Purpose and Scope

The Long-Range Interpretive Plan (LRIP) provides a vision for the park’s visitor experience, interpretation and education programming, and media. The projected life span of the Long-Range

Interpretive Plan is recommended to be four to six years. This will vary with individual park needs and circumstances and should be reviewed annually and updated as necessary.

It addresses both personal services and media, and is prepared by the park staff and park partners/community with a facilitator skilled in visitor experience, interpretation, and education planning. It also provides the foundation elements for the Annual Plan and is consistent with other current planning documents.

Interpretation

NPS policy describes interpretive planning as an organized method for making informed choices about visitor experience, interpretation, and educational programming. It can provide solutions to management problems, with the goals of encouraging preservation of park resources, and fostering increased visitor understanding, appreciation, enjoyment, and stewardship.

Per NPS Management Policies, section 7.1, all interpretation shall be “grounded in (1) park resources,

(2) themes related to the park’s legislative history and significance, and (3) park and Service-wide mission goals. The intent will be to provide each visitor with an interpretive experience that is enjoyable and inspirational within the context of the park’s tangible resources and the meanings they represent. In addition, visitors should be made aware of the purposes and scope of the national park system.

“Interpretation will encourage dialogue and accept that visitors have their own individual points of view. Factual information presented will be current, accurate, based on current scholarship and science, and delivered to convey park meanings, with the understanding that audience members will draw their own conclusions. Interpretation will also reach out to park neighbors, segments of the population that do not visit national parks, and community decision-makers to stimulate discussions about the park and its meanings in local, regional, and national contexts. In addition, interpretive services will help employees better understand the park’s history, resources, processes, and visitors.

“An effective park interpretive and educational program will include

• information and orientation programs that provide visitors with easy access to the information they need to have a safe and enjoyable park experience;

• interpretive programs that provide both on- and off -site presentations and are designed to encourage visitors to form their own intellectual or emotional connections with the resource.

Interpretive programs facilitate a connection between the interests of visitors and the meanings of the park;

• curriculum-based educational programs that link park themes to national standards and state curricula and involve educators in planning and development. These programs include previsit and postvisit materials, address different learning styles, include an evaluation mechanism, and provide learning experiences that are linked directly to clear objectives. Programs develop a thorough understanding of a park’s resources in individual, regional, national, and global contexts and of the park’s place within the national park system; and

• interpretive media that provide visitors with relevant park information and facilitate more in-depth understanding of—and personal connection with—park stories and resources. This media will be continually maintained for both quality of content and condition based upon established standards.”

Compliance

Accessibility

All LRIP documents shall comply with sections 504 and 508 of the Rehabilitation Act and other applicable accessibility laws for government publication in print and on the internet.

The LRIP shall make a good faith effort to recommend interpretive products and services that exceed legal requirements to improve general accessibility and universal design.

Policy

All goals, decisions, recommendations, and action items shall apply within the park’s legislated authority to operate.

All goals, decisions, recommendations, and action items shall comply with applicable law and policy, including but not limited to:

• NPS Management Policies 2006 (found at https://npspolicy.nps.gov/index.cfm)

• NPS digital media policies, as summarized below under Digital Media Policies

• collective bargaining agreements

• the park’s scope of collections and standards for museum objects

• sections 504 and 508 of the Rehabilitation Act

• the Architectural Barriers Act Accessibility Standard (ABAAS)

• Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)

• Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966 (NHPA)

• Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA)

• NPS Interpretive Media Accessibility Guidelines (found at https://www.nps.gov/subjects/hfc/accessibility.htm)

Digital Media Policies

All NPS website content must conform to the layout and structure of the agency’s Content Management

System (CMS). No custom websites are permitted.

The agency’s CMS shall be the primary source for all authoritative online content. Any content on other platforms shall be supplemental in nature, and not essential to agency communication.

Agency social media is restricted to approved platforms, currently:

• Facebook

• Twitter

• Flickr

• Instagram

• YouTube

The agency may not represent itself on third party platforms. No NPS staff may create or edit content for crowd-sourced platforms such as Wikipedia, Google, Open Street Maps, Yelp!, Trip Advisor, Chumani, or others. Such platforms may download and re-post content hosted on NPS platforms.

Custom mobile applications (apps) are permitted after completing Department level review for IT security, Privacy Act compliance, and other applicable laws and policies. The typical review time is 18 months and only two apps have successfully completed the review.

Any public-facing digital media in an exhibit must be stand-alone or rely on a non-government internet network.

https://npspolicy.nps.gov/index.cfm https://www.nps.gov/subjects/hfc/accessibility.htm

Any collection of personal data must comply with the Privacy Act and OMB policies for social science.

Decision making

The LRIP body text shall contain only final decisions. Any unresolved decisions may be described in project notes and appendices, but they shall be omitted from the LRIP main body text. The LRIP may note the act of making a decision as a recommendation or action item.

Authority Signature

The final LRIP shall contain a signature of the highest ranking government official with responsibility for the LRIP. The signature shall accompany text stating the authority of the individual to endorse the decisions contained.

NPS Management policies define the decision maker as “the managerial-level employee who has been delegated authority to make decisions or to otherwise take an action that would affect park resources or values. Most often it refers to the park superintendent or regional director, but may at times include, for example, a resource manager, facility manager, or chief ranger to whom authority has been re-delegated.”

Reference Citation

Reference to objective data and/or its analysis shall accompany decisions that require further explanation or justification.

Example

A footnote to the recommendation, “replace live farm animals with bronze models” states, “see cost figures in the media report and response numbers in the visitor survey indicating low interest in live farm animals.”

Workshop Documentation

A set of notes shall summarize the results of workshops and personal meetings. At a minimum, the workshop notes shall include:

(a) A list of workshop attendees and their affiliations

(b) Discussion points or outline of topics

(c) A transcription of key notes that reflect the core workshop topic elements

(d) Specific items of concern, consensus, and/or disagreement

(e) Media files and transcripts of any recorded sessions

Plan Contents

General Requirements

All text, including drafts, shall be free of spelling and grammatical errors.

The HFC Editorial Style Guide, found at https://www.nps.gov/subjects/hfc/hfc-editorial-style-guide.htm, shall govern all stylistic decisions.

Footnotes shall be limited to those that refer the reader to sources of information that verify or further clarify statements in the body text.

At-a-glance information design, where appropriate and able to fully communicate the necessary information, shall take precedent over narrative. Such design may include charts, graphs, word clouds, bullet points, maps, annotated/altered photographs, and other graphic techniques.

Contents

A complete Long-Range Interpretive Plan contains the following sections, described in detail below.

(a) covers

• The government official’s signature shall not appear until the final document

(b) table of contents

(c) Plan Purpose Statement

(d) Foundations Section

(e) Recommendation Section

(f) Implementation Plan

(g) Media Report (if required)

(h) Appendices

Covers

Front

Include a 1” black band placed within the upper third, with an NPS arrowhead on the right. Printed in white on the black band: “National Park Service / U.S. Department of the Interior.” Below the band will be the name of the park and “Long-Range Interpretive Plan” and the year of completion. A full-color photograph, representative of the park, takes up most of the cover space. There is a ¾” margin on all sides.

Back

The inside of the back cover shall contain an approval and authority statement with signature of the highest ranking government official with responsibility for the LRIP; the signature shall appear only on the final approved complete LRIP.

The outside of the back cover shall contain:

(a) a line in the upper third reading, “Long-Range Interpretive Plan” and the name of the park

(b) a line in the lower third reading, “National Park Service U.S. Department of the Interior”

(c) a single large image in the center

(d) flat color background with bleeds

Plan Purpose Statement

A brief statement shall describe the overall planning effort and authority and scope of the LRIP.

https://www.nps.gov/subjects/hfc/hfc-editorial-style-guide.htm https://www.nps.gov/subjects/hfc/hfc-editorial-style-guide.htm

Required contents

(a) Intended LRIP lifespan

(b) LRIP scope and limitations

(c) role of interpretation planning within park planning hierarchy

(d) utility in supporting future endeavors such as funding or staffing requests

(e) A list of primary planning team members with their titles and affiliations

(f) manner of decision making in this LRIP’s creation and roles of participants

(g) other information that clarifies how the plan was developed

If the LRIP requires subdivision into discrete geographic or administrative units, the Plan Purpose shall describe this subdivision.

Limit

Two pages, plus any space necessary to list all names

Format

Narrative with headings

Foundations Section

This section shall reflect analysis of objective data, prior commitments, and the final decisions of the planning workshop participants. Any undecided matters shall reside in alternate documentation or appendices.

For LRIPs that apply to multiple legislated units or areas with discrete management plans, each such unit or area shall have its own complete Foundations Section with all relevant information and citations.

Park purpose and significance

Contents

This subsection enumerates the park’s purpose and significance as defined in higher-level planning documents. It is limited to summaries, citations, or full-text verbatim statements of purpose, significance, vision, and mission, with full citations, from the following, by order of authority:

(a) Enabling legislation

(b) Foundation Document

(c) General Management Plan

(d) Strategic Plan

(e) Other relevant plans or documents that supersede this LRIP

This subsection shall provide annotated references, fully cited, to treaties, laws, policies, or agreements that affect interpretation at the park. Annotations shall summarize and clarify any ambiguous or highly technical language from the original documents.

This subsection contains a brief narrative, not to exceed one paragraph, of the role of interpretation in serving the enumerated purpose, significance, mission, and vision statements.

Limit

Self-limiting by required contents.

Format

List, full-text verbatim, with reference citations

Annotated reference citations

One narrative paragraph

Interpretive Themes and other Messaging

Purpose

Interpretive themes are organizational tools which provide a conceptual framework for visitor experience planning and programming. Themes are derived from and capture the essence of park purpose, significance, resources, and values. While themes are important as a framework to help guide and focus development of visitor experience, services, and programming, interpretive themes are not intended for public use.

Contents

List, full-text verbatim, any themes as established in higher-level planning documents. Provide clarifying annotations where necessary.

List all other messaging without annotation. Footnotes may refer to sources and/or analysis in this and other documents.

General Requirements

Every theme and message statement shall consist of exactly one complete sentence. When appropriate as a mnemonic device, a single-phrase title may precede each sentence.

Every theme and message statement shall follow a reasonable assumption that its effective use may result in improved engagement and safety among the stakeholders identified in this document.

Themes and message statements shall identify messaging that may occupy a substantial portion of the park’s interpretive effort. Every theme and message statement shall apply to the totality of the LRIP’s scope. They shall avoid addressing highly specific messaging about individual resources or matters unless such messaging can apply throughout the LRIP’s scope. Examples: “Use the bear-proof containers” may be specific to a campground, whereas “practice wildlife etiquette” may apply across the totality of the park.

Theme Requirements

Every theme shall directly connect the meaning in the resource to the legislated national significance.

Example: “The heroic, strategic, and resourceful military actions at Monocacy changed the course of three Civil War campaigns and the nation’s politics.”

The LRIP shall not add or edit existing themes. Brief annotations may clarify themes.

Other Messaging Requirements

All resource preservation messaging shall directly address resource preservation issues identified in this and other park planning documents.

All visitor preservation messaging shall directly address documented visitor safety problems.

Management messaging shall directly address management goals as stated in this and other planning documents.

Examples: “Visitors will stay on designated park trails.” “Rising sea levels resulting from climate change are predicted to submerge many of the park’s historical resources.”

Essential Questions

Essential Questions are outside the scope of the LRIP. A list of potential Essential Questions may accompany the LRIP as an appendix.

Limit

Two pages.

Format

List, with annotations if needed

Resource Needs

Contents

This subsection analyzes the needs of the park’s resources and values as defined in higher-level planning documents. It shall contain a prioritized list of needs that interpretation currently addresses or has the potential to address. A brief annotation shall accompany each need that summarizes the analysis and states the current application of interpretation to meet the need.

Analysis of resource needs is limited to the list of resources and values from the Foundation Document.

Lacking a Foundation Document, other authoritative documentation of fundamental resources and values may serve as sources, including but not limited to:

(a) Enabling legislation

(b) General Management Plan

(c) Strategic Plan

(d) Other relevant plans or documents that supersede this LRIP

Limit

Self-limiting by required contents.

Format

Annotated list

Infographic techniques shall take the place of lists or narrative when equally or more effective in communicating essential information.

Management Needs

Contents

This subsection lists, in priority order, any management needs for interpretation as established in higher-level planning documents and pre-determined obligations. The list shall include all work currently in progress, such as completing a large project. The list shall contain annotations stating any changes or additions per the date of this LRIP.

Management needs shall include goals set by:

(a) Department of the Interior goals

(b) National Park Service goals

(c) Washington Office Interpretation, Education, Volunteers Goals

(d) regional office goals

(e) park strategic plan

This subsection may also contain objectives that define specific outcomes for the interpretive and educational programs, such as bolstering community support, building future constituencies, and providing opportunities for life-long learning.

This subsection shall contain a list of obligated changes or events. These may include:

• opening a new visitor center

• an anniversary commemoration

• a permitted event with large impact

• a known unusual natural phenomenon, such as a solar eclipse

• establishment of a new partnership

• change to a law or policy, such as hunting

• expected change in regional or national initiatives

List also concurrent planning activities which affect the visitor experience, with date and hyperlink or citation for the location of the full document.

Other applicable plans may include:

(a) Concession Management Plans

(b) General Management Plans

(c) Facilities Plans

(d) Education Plans

(e) Historic Furnishings Reports

(f) Historic Resource Studies

(g) Historic Structures Reports

(h) Visitor Studies

(i) Cultural Landscape Reports

(j) Scope of Collections

(k) Other resource stewardship documentation and plans

Limit

Two pages.

Format

List, with edits, additions, and annotations

Visitor and Stakeholder Needs

Contents

This subsection enumerates and prioritizes visitor and stakeholder needs for interpretation, based on an analysis of objective stakeholder information. It uses existing objective data to enumerate and target categories of visitors and stakeholders. Every entry shall include annotations briefly describing the determination of the need and the current application of interpretation to meet the need.

A brief narrative may describe the process used to collect and analyze the data.

Definitions

A stakeholder is defined by NPS Management Policy as “an individual, group or other entity that has a strong interest in decisions concerning park resources and values. Stakeholders may include, for example, recreational user groups, permittees, and concessioners. In the broadest sense, all Americans are stakeholders in the national parks.”

A visitor is defined by NPS Management Policy as “anyone who physically visits a park for recreational, educational or scientific purposes, or who otherwise uses a park’s interpretive and educational services, regardless of where such use occurs (e.g., via Internet access, library, etc.).”

Requirements

Cite all sources of empirical data. Any voluminous sources not readily available to the public shall be summarized in this subsection and included in their entirety in an appendix.

Sources may include:

• A chart from a visitor survey showing top reasons for visiting the park.

• A heat map showing trends in recreational use.

• A map showing visitor safety incidents over the past 20 years.

Limit

Two pages.

Format

List, with annotations.

Infographic techniques shall take the place of lists or narrative when equally or more effective in communicating essential information.

Formal Partnerships and Agreements

Contents

This section enumerates all entities with formal agreements to operate in or with the park, restricted to those that interface with the public. Most are typically enumerated in existing Foundations Documents.

The list may include, but is not limited to:

• Cooperating associations such as friends groups

• Affiliated tribes

• Commercial agreements

• Other government entities with jurisdictional interest, MOU, or MOA

• Legislated partners

• Operations under contract or cooperative agreement

Required information

Each entry shall include the following details:

(a) Name of enterprise

(b) Primary purpose(s)

(c) Type of agreement

(d) Partner needs that interpretation currently or potentially addresses

(e) Current engagement in the park’s interpretive/educational activity

Limit

Self-limiting per contents

Format

Table

This section contains no narrative, unless required to describe something that does not fit neatly in table format.

Goals for the Interpretive Program

This subsection enumerates and prioritizes goals for interpretation based on the needs established in prior subsections.

Every entry shall consist of exactly one sentence followed by a brief annotation of the needs addressed.

When appropriate as a mnemonic device, a single-phrase title may precede each sentence.

Every goal shall be achievable and realistic within the stated scope of the LRIP and with the park’s typical resources.

Every goal shall include a measurable outcome.

This subsection may contain goals that require additional resources to be achievable, but they shall be identified as such.

A brief narrative shall introduce the goals by stating the process and analysis used to identify and prioritize them.

Limit

Three pages

Format

Brief narrative

List with annotations

Existing interpretive conditions

Contents

This subsection enumerates all interpretive programming and relates it to the goals stated in the previous subsection. Where a media report is included in the LRIP, information in this subsection shall match and cross-reference information in the report.

Inclusions

Broad programmatic-level areas of work, such as:

• a series of walking tours

• contact facilities

• education outreach

• recreation

• a suite of pamphlets

• a series of waysides on a loop trail

• a visitor center exhibit

• an audio tour

• a historically furnished space, including concessions like restaurants or lodges work that supports the interpretive program, such as:

• sales

• volunteer management

• authorized commercial interpretive activity (recreational activity often applies if it includes opportunities for engagement with resource stewardship)

Exclusions

Highly specific singular programs, such as:

• a specific walking tour

• a specific contact point

• a specific education program

• a specific outfitter’s route

• a specific site bulletin

• an individual wayside

• a touchscreen in an exhibit third-party apps, websites, or other media in place without any formal agreement work performed by interpretation staff that is not interpretive in nature, such as:

• fee collection

• permit management

• campground management

Required information

Each entry shall describe:

(a) Program Title/Description

(b) Program Type (tours, sales/contact areas, education, recreation, waysides, publications, interior exhibits, videos, etc.)

(c) volume (approximate number of programs and people served)

(d) Current condition

(e) Goals addressed

(f) sources of staffing and funding, including partners, volunteers, and commercial use

Limit

Self-limiting per contents

Format

Table

This section contains no narrative, unless required to describe something that does not fit neatly in table format.

Recommendations Section

The Recommendations Section shall reflect the final decisions of planning workshop participants. Any undecided matters shall reside in alternate documentation or appendices.

The Recommendations Section shall address the goals identified in the Foundations Section.

The Recommendations Section shall include and reflect decisions made based on any Media Report included in the LRIP.

Every current park action and activity shall be accounted for in the plan.

Order and Subdivisions

There is no specified order of presentation. Every LRIP shall order the information as appropriate to the park. The same information may be duplicated and presented multiple ways when useful to illustrate or highlight certain aspects of it. For example: The same set of recommendations may be subdivided by new work and reduced work, then listed again as subdivided by unique administrative units.

General Requirements

A brief narrative shall introduce the section with a description of the rationale used to generate and prioritize the recommendations.

(a) Every recommendation shall be achievable within the lifespan of the plan.

(b) Every recommendation shall apply to at least one goal identified in the Foundations Section.

(c) Any recommendation that depends on work accounted for in other plans (such as a facility improvement or concession plan) shall state such and reference those plans; the recommendation shall indicate dependencies to be resolved within the LRIP’s lifespan.

Required information

The Recommendations Section shall contain a structured list of the decided-upon recommended actions with the information fields below.

(a) Recommended action

(b) whether the recommendation amounts to new work/programs or existing work/programs to be retained as-is, improved, or reduced/eliminated

(c) Unique administrative unit(s) affected, if applicable

(d) the goal(s) that it addresses

(e) Priority (discretionary format, typically high-medium-low)

(f) any associated risks of action and/or inaction

(g) dependencies to be resolved prior to acting on the recommendation, including compliance and formal consultation with municipal, tribal, SHPO, or other authorities

(h) partner(s) affected, including NPS service offices

Format

Brief narrative introduction

Table format is preferred, with brief narrative where appropriate

Implementation Plan

The Implementation Plan shall diagram and prioritize sequential tasks, assign responsibility, and identify funding sources.

This plan lists those actions necessary to implement the Long-Range Interpretive Plan, assigns responsibility, and sets target dates. This section is a critical element; each Annual Implementation Plan

(AIP) over the lifespan of the LRIP will be based on this LRIP action summary.

The team shall determine the most useful order and format for the information to be presented.

Every current park action and activity shall be accounted for in the plan.

Requirements

A brief narrative shall introduce the section with a description of the rationale used to generate and prioritize the action items.

The Implementation Plan shall contain a structured list of actions, each with the following information.

(a) Recommended action; add detail if subdividing an action defined broadly in the

Recommendations Section

(b) Timeframe; include planning and preparation such as contract development or event planning

(c) a range of potential costs or savings over the plan’s lifespan; note the degree of certainty such as a “class C cost estimate”

(d) potential funding sources

(e) staff resources necessary to complete the action; include training, research, and management

(f) sources of staff time, including partners, volunteers, and contracts

(g) associated themes and messaging

(h) specific locations

Format

Table, with brief narrative

Media Report

The report shall enumerate current and potential interpretive media. It shall include graphics, diagrams and narratives. This report shall be incorporated as an optional section in the final LRIP.

Entries for potential media products shall reflect best industry standards and be presented as a menu of options.

Contents

All entries are subject to the requirements stated above in “Compliance.”

A list of media products and services shall describe, for each entry:

(a) Title/Description

(b) general qualities of the media (type, numbers of products, locations)

(c) year of development, approximate if unknown, or “future”

(d) accessibility

(e) current condition & needs

(f) Cost

(i) New or potential media shall include a high medium, and low class C cost estimate

(ii) Existing media shall include annual maintenance cost, given as an approximate range

(g) planned obsolescence

(h) notes

(i) asset ownership

Inclusions broad, programmatic-level work, such as:

• a suite of pamphlets

• a series of waysides on a loop trail

• a visitor center exhibit

• a feature video in a theater space

• an audio tour

• a historically furnished space, including concession spaces like restaurants or lodges

Exclusions individual elements, such as:

• a specific site bulletin

• an individual wayside

• a touchscreen in an exhibit third-party apps, websites, or physical media in place without any formal agreement

Diagram

At least one basic diagram shall graphically represent new recommendations.

Appendices

Appendices shall be limited to:

• copies of existing data that are not easily referenced or accessible to the general public

• Stakeholder meeting documentation, with analysis (if required)

• Other relevant meeting documentation with potential for future use

Appendices shall not contain any statements of decision or information essential for the plan’s administration.

Executive Summary

The Executive Summary shall not exceed four letter-size pages. It shall consist of:

(a) A cover page matching that of the Full LRIP, with the addition of the words, “Executive

Summary”

(b) Brief summary of the Plan Purpose Statement; state also reference to the full LRIP

(c) Interpretive themes and messaging; no annotations

(d) Chart of goals and their associated interpretive programs

(e) Recommendations, titles only, in priority order

(f) Images or diagrams as appropriate

Design and Layout

The LRIP shall employ professional design standards with an attractive easily navigated layout. The document shall be enhanced with photographs, maps, tables, captions, and/or graphics needed to communicate essential messages.

Overall Layout

Full LRIP

All pages, except when needed for large format graphics or tables, shall be letter size with a 2” outer margin, and a ½” gutter. Graphics and pull quotes may cross into columns and margins.

Footers contain page numbers on the outside of each page, “[Name of Park] Long-Range Interpretive

Plan, [year of plan]” on the left inside of page, and “National Park Service” on the right inside. Headers identify the Chapter (except for the chapter title pages) and are located on the outsides. Headers and footers may be a color other than black.

Executive Summary

1” margins all sides

Typography

All headings, headers, footers, titles, and captions are Frutiger open type. All body text is NPS

Rawlinson. Overall font size is either 11 or 12 pt; size of other text may vary as needed (e.g., captions may be 10 pt, paragraph headings may be 14 pt, and chapter headings may be 16 pt) or as recommended by the designer. Tables shall employ a consistent font size and style throughout the document. Most text shall be black; headers, footers, sidebars, and captions may be another color, as long as they are consistent.

Graphics

Graphics, tables, charts, and pull quotes shall comprise no more than 25% on average of all page space

(besides the covers).

Color type: RGB (Adobe RGB 1998)

Minimum resolution: 400ppi

Acceptable file types, in preference order: TIFF, PSD, JPG, PNG

High-resolution graphic files shall be scaled, adjusted, and linked to the layout. Graphics shall not be enlarged past what is allowed by their resolution, such that enlargement results in pixilation. Alteration of images for supplementation of content is encouraged, given that the alterations are not superfluous or distracting.

Graphics shall be large enough to convey the image clearly. If necessary, adjust color and tonal values and assign and/or convert to the correct working space profile.

No image shall show minors such that they are clearly identifiable.

A credit line shall accompany every graphic except when graphics are property of the US government.

The minimum requirements for all licensed content are one-time, nonexclusive use rights for the lifetime of the project to display publicly and display on the internet.

Printing and Binding

Full LRIP

Spiral binding or equivalent

Front and back covers shall be a transparency or printed laminate.

Executive Summary double-sided tabloid size page, folded with the cover facing out glossy cardstock

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