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The general guidelines are the "Standards for Rehabilitation" of the U.S. Secretary of Interior as follows. (a) Every reasonable effort shall be made to provide a compat- ible use for a property which requires minimal alteration of the building, structure, or site and its environment, or to use a property for its originally intended purpose. (b) The distinguishing original qualities or character of a build- ing, structure or site and its environment should not be destroyed. The removal or alteration of any historic mate- rial or distinctive architectural feature shall be avoided when possible. (c) All- buildings, structures and sites shall be recognized as products of their own time. Alterations that have no histor =` ical basis and which seek to create an earlier or later appearance shall be discouraged. (d) Changes which may have taken place in the course of time are evidence of the history and development of a building, structure or site and its environment. These changes may have acquired significance in their own right and this signi- ficance shall be recognized and respected. (e) Distinctive stylistic features or examples of skilled crafts- manship which characterize a building, structure or site shall be treated with sensitivity. (f) Deteriorated architectural features shall be repaired rather than replaced, wherever possible. in the event replacement is necessary, the new material should match the material being replaced in composition, design, color, texture and other visual qualities. Repair or replacement of missing architectural features should be based on accurate duplica- tions of features, substantiated by 'historic, physical or pictorial evidence rather than on conjectural designs or the availability of different architectural elements from other buildings or structures. (g) The surface cleaning of structures shall be undertaken with the gentlest means possible. Sandblasting and other cleaning methods that might damage the historic building materials are discouraged. (h) Every reasonable effort shall be made to protect and pre- serve archaeological resources. W Contemporary design for alterations and additions to exist- ing properties shall not be discouraged when such alterations and additions do not destroy significant historical, architec- tural or cultural material and such design is compatible - 3 -