The Environmental Protection Division is responsible for ensuring compliance with historic preservation requirements. The BNL Cultural Resource Management Plan (PDF) identifies and describes the management plans for of all of BNL's cultural resources. These resources include World War I trenches, Civilian Conservation Corps features, World War II buildings, and historic structures, programs and discoveries associated with high energy physics, research reactors, and other science conducted at the Laboratory.
BNL currently has three facilities that have been determined to be eligible for listing on the National Register of Historic Places: the Brookhaven Graphite Research Reactor complex, the High Flux Beam Reactor complex, and the World War I training trenches.