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The Utah Watershed Restoration Initiative brings together federal, state and private entities in an effort to improve watersheds across the State of Utah. �Federal and state statutes require agencies to evaluate the effects of these proposed projects on historic properties (i.e. buildings, archaeological sites) through a process known as the Section 106 Review.� Completing this process requires coordination between federal and state cultural resource specialists.� One of the strengths of watershed restoration projects is that they disregard property boundaries, utilizing resources from multiple agencies across various property ownerships.� However, this then necessitates multi-agency cooperation in addressing cultural resource protection.� In cases of multi-agency projects, the largest land holding federal agency takes the lead in project review and consultation with the State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO).� Unless designated by a federal agency, state agencies cannot consult with SHPO for a federal entity concerning historic properties.� Cooperation is required with project managers and cultural resource specialist throughout the yearlong process, from making a determination of requiring cultural resource inventories, cost estimates, contracting for cultural resources inventory, report and site review and final SHPO consultation concurring on site eligibility and project effect determinations.� Estimating cultural resource inventory costs requires set contract prices per acre, which also allows for quick deployment of contract inventories.� Project managers are required to avoid cultural resource sites during project implementation when sites are determined through the 106 process as eligible to the National Register of Historic Places.� The cooperation required by the Watershed Restoration Initiative results in the production of site documentation, a report and a single agency SHPO consultation saving time and monies across all agencies.