Utah State Government Library Division Utah State Library

The Utah State Government Library Division Utah State Library, operating as the Utah State Historical Society and specifically through its State Historical Preservation Office (SHPO) Division, serves as the central repository for archaeological and historical data in Utah. This entity provides specialized services to federal agencies in cultural resource management, archaeological database access, and historic preservation support. Registered in SAM.gov since 2002 and operating under the parent entity State of Utah Division of Technology Services as part of the Automated Geographic Reference Center (AGRC), the organization maintains comprehensive databases of over 110,000 archaeological site records and 65,000 archaeological report records that support federal compliance with cultural resource protection laws and historic preservation requirements.

Through federal contract awards, the Utah State Historical Society has provided critical data management and access services to multiple federal agencies. The Bureau of Land Management Utah State Office awarded a sole-source purchase order valued at $44,550 for the "SEGO and UDAM Access and Data Cuts" project, requiring the contractor to develop and maintain a geographic information system providing quarterly data cuts of archaeological and cultural resource databases through September 2028. The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Farm Production and Conservation division awarded a $103,000 sole-source purchase order for a Utah SHPO Data Sharing Agreement, providing access to the archaeological GIS system, SEGO database, and on-call assistance for cultural resource records through April 2030. Additionally, the National Resources Conservation Service West Region awarded three successive annual purchase orders in fiscal years 2022 through 2024, each valued at $10,000, for SHPO Data Sharing Contracts that included archaeological GIS system access, maintenance and upgrades, SEGO database access, and on-call archaeological records assistance. All contracts were executed without set-aside designations and were structured as firm fixed-price purchase orders supporting federal agencies' cultural resource management responsibilities and agricultural conservation efforts.

The Utah State Historical Society has received substantial federal grant support through multiple programs and funding agencies advancing historic preservation and cultural resource stewardship. The Bureau of Land Management awarded a $482,100 Cooperative Agreement under the Cultural and Paleontological Resources Management program (CFDA 15.224) for a three-year project from October 2024 through September 2027 to incorporate and maintain cultural resource records, monitor at-risk heritage sites through a volunteer stewardship program, and digitize approximately 100,000 records and 20,000 reports. The National Park Service National Office has been the primary funding source for Historic Preservation Fund Grants-In-Aid (CFDA 15.904), awarding multiple grants including a $977,782 project grant for the Utah Rural Main Street Revitalization Program (October 2021 to September 2024), a $482,100 formula grant for annual SHPO activities (October 2024 to September 2027), and a project grant supporting Paul Bruhn Historic Revitalization Grants Program activities providing subgrants to properties in designated Main Street communities through September 2027. The organization also received funding from the Bureau of Reclamation for a Project Grant (October 2021 to September 2026) to maintain historical and archaeological databases and provide data cuts to the agency, and from the Bureau of Land Management for a Cooperative Agreement (August 2024 to August 2029) supporting site stewardship coordination and archaeological data management. Additional project grants from the National Park Service supported a historic context project for the Great Sage Plan area (October 2022 to September 2025) and the Utah Latinx Historic Context Expansion Phase 2 project (May 2022 to June 2025), demonstrating the organization's breadth of work in cultural resource documentation, historic property identification and evaluation, and community engagement in historic preservation activities.