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109TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION S. 1719 

To provide for the preservation of the historic confinement sites where Japanese Americans were detained during World War II, and for other 

purposes. 

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 

SEPTEMBER 19, 2005 

Mr. INOUYE (for himself, Mr. BENNETT, and Mr. AKAKA) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources 

A BILL 

To provide for the preservation of the historic confinement 

sites where Japanese Americans were detained during 

World War II, and for other purposes. 

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

3 SECTION 1. PRESERVATION OF HISTORIC CONFINEMENT 

4 SITES. 

5 (a) PRESERVATION PROGRAM.—The Secretary shall 

6 create a program within the National Park Service to en7 courage, support, recognize, and work in partnership with 

8 citizens, Federal agencies, State, local, and tribal govern9 ments, other public entities, educational institutions, and 
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1 private nonprofit organizations for the purpose of identi2 fying, researching, evaluating, interpreting, protecting, re3 storing, repairing, and acquiring historic confinement sites 

4 in order that present and future generations may learn 

5 and gain inspiration from these sites and that these sites 

6 will demonstrate the Nation’s commitment to equal justice 

7 under the law. 

8 (b) GRANTS.—The Secretary, in consultation with 

9 the Japanese American National Heritage Coalition, shall 

10 make grants to State, local, and tribal governments, other 

11 public entities, educational institutions, and private non12 profit organizations to assist in carrying out subsection 

13 (a). 

14 (c) PROPERTY ACQUISITION.— 

15 (1) AUTHORITY.—Federal funds made available 

16 under this section may be used to acquire non-Fed17 eral property for the purposes of this section, in ac18 cordance with section 3, only if that property is 

19 within the areas described in paragraph (2). 

20 (2) PROPERTY DESCRIPTIONS.—The property 

21 referred to in paragraph (2) is the following: 

22 (A) Jerome, depicted in Figure 7.1 of the 

23 Site Document. 

24 (B) Rohwer, depicted in Figure 11.2 of the 

25 Site Document. 
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1 (C) Topaz, depicted in Figure 12.2 of the 

2 Site Document. 

3 (D) Honouliuli, located on the southern 

4 part of the Island of Oahu, Hawaii, and within 

5 the land area bounded by H1 to the south, 

6 Route 750 (Kunia Road) to the east, the 

7 Honouliuli Forest Reserve to the west, and 

8 Kunia town and Schofield Barracks to the 

9 north. 

10 (3) NO EFFECT ON PRIVATE PROPERTY.—The 

11 authority granted in this subsection shall not con12 stitute a Federal designation or have any effect on 

13 private property ownership. 

14 (d) MATCHING FUND REQUIREMENT.—The Sec15 retary shall require a 25 percent non-Federal match for 

16 funds provided under this section. 

17 (e) SUNSET OF AUTHORITY.—This Act shall have no 

18 force or effect on and after the date that is 2 years after 

19 the disbursement to grantees under this section of the 

20 total amount of funds authorized to be appropriated under 

21 section 4. 

22 SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS. 

23 For purposes of this Act the following definitions 

24 apply: 
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1 (1) HISTORIC CONFINEMENT SITES.—(A) The 

2 term ‘‘historic confinement sites’’ means the 10 in3 ternment camp sites referred to as Gila River, Gra4 nada, Heart Mountain, Jerome, Manzanar, 

5 Minidoka, Poston, Rohwer, Topaz, and Tule Lake 

6 and depicted in Figures 4.1, 5.1, 6.1, 7.1, 8.4, 9.2, 

7 10.6, 11.2, 12.2, and 13.2, respectively, of the Site 

8 Document; and 

9 (B) other historically significant locations, as 

10 determined by the Secretary, where Japanese Ameri11 cans were detained during World War II. 

12 (2) SECRETARY.—The term ‘‘Secretary’’ means 

13 the Secretary of the Interior. 

14 (3) SITE DOCUMENT.—The term ‘‘Site Docu15 ment’’ means the document titled ‘‘Confinement and 

16 Ethnicity: An Overview of World War II Japanese 

17 American Relocation Sites’’, published by the West18 ern Archeological and Conservation Center, National 

19 Park Service, in 1999. 

20 SEC. 3. PRIVATE PROPERTY PROTECTION. 

21 No Federal funds made available to carry out this 

22 Act may be used to acquire any real property or any inter23 est in any real property without the written consent of 

24 the owner or owners of that property or interest in prop25 erty. 
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1 SEC. 4. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS. 

2 There are authorized to be appropriated to the Sec3 retary $38,000,000 to carry out this Act. Such sums shall 

4 remain available until expended. 

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