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Also among the stipulations of the CLG agreement is that the HPC will continue to update the Indiana Historic Sites and Structures Inventory (the "Survey") to allow for easier identification of structures impacted by 0rojects using federal funds and to ensure that all changes to eligible structures in connection with those projects are done in accordance with the Secretary of the Interior's standards and guidelines. As part of this responsibility, approximately half of the staff's time in the first half of 1992 was taken up by completion of the last phase of the update of the city Survey. This update was begun in 1986 and was conducted in six phases, each lasting a year. The project was essentially the resurvey of the entire city of South Bend in order to identify structures that had become eligible within intervening years between surveys and to determine structures that were no longer contributing because of alterations of various kinds or that had become contributing by restoration. The second half of the year was similarly occupied by beginning the task of assembling materials with which to publish the results of the Survey in June of 1993. This project involved: 1. checking individual survey forms for over fifty-four hundred (5400) sites for accuracy; 2. assembling maps for all square -mile quadrants and Nat=ional. Register and local districts; 3. researching and updating historical data; 4. assembling survey and historical photos for publication; 5. writing and; �6. assembling the publication in tandem with the printers. The publication will be complete by the end of June, 1993; this will be an extremely busy winter as we endeavor to complete this project. These grant projects function more than just as a means of fulfilling the HPC's legal responsibilities as a local historic preservation agency. Without these projects the HPC would not have a staff -- the Director, the only full-time employee of local government (the county), would have the task of fulfilling all of the HPC's administrative and professional duties alone. These grant projects must therefore remain as the staff's primary focus in order that they are completed on time and in an manner acceptable to the Division of Historic Preservation and Archaeology -- the agency responsible for monitoring and funding the projects. DISTRICT AND LANDMARK ADMINISTRATION The responsibility of administering Local Historic Districts and Landmarks remained as the staff's second most time-consuming activity in 1992. The HPC has taken on additional responsibilities over the last few years that have added to the task -- especially the enforcement of Minimum Maintenance Standards. In addition there have been several legal challenges to HPC regulations. The HPC issued forty-nine (49) Certificates of Appropriateness in 1992. WT wenty-five certificates were approved by the commission; the remainder were approved by the staff under the direction of the HPG (see attached tables).