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[Congressional Bills 109th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1492 Reported in Senate (RS)]

                                                       Calendar No. 557
109th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 1492

                          [Report No. 109-314]

_______________________________________________________________________

                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           November 17, 2005

   Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and 
                           Natural Resources

                             July 31, 2006

               Reported by Mr. Domenici, with amendments
  [Omit the part struck through and insert the part printed in italic]

_______________________________________________________________________

                                 AN ACT

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

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

SECTION 1. PRESERVATION OF HISTORIC CONFINEMENT SITES.

    (a) Preservation Program.--The Secretary shall create a program 
within the National Park Service to encourage, support, recognize, and 
work in partnership with citizens, Federal agencies, State, local, and 
tribal governments, other public entities, educational institutions, 
and private nonprofit organizations for the purpose of identifying, 
researching, evaluating, interpreting, protecting, restoring, 
repairing, and acquiring historic confinement sites in order that 
present and future generations may learn and gain inspiration from 
these sites and that these sites will demonstrate the Nation's 
commitment to equal justice under the law.
<DELETED>    (b) Grants.--The Secretary, in consultation with the 
Japanese American National Heritage Coalition, shall make grants to 
State, local, and tribal governments, other public entities, 
educational institutions, and private nonprofit organizations to assist 
in carrying out subsection (a).</DELETED>
    (b) Grants.--
            (1) Criteria.--The Secretary, after consultation with 
        State, local, and tribal governments, other public entities, 
        educational institutions, and private nonprofit organizations 
        (including organizations involved in the preservation of 
        historic confinement sites), shall develop criteria for making 
        grants under paragraph (2) to assist in carrying out subsection 
        (a).
            (2) Provision of grants.--Not later than 180 days after the 
        date on which funds are made available to carry out this Act, 
        the Secretary shall, subject to the availability of 
        appropriations, make grants to the entities described in 
        paragraph (1) only in accordance with the criteria developed 
        under that paragraph.
    (c) Property Acquisition.--
            (1) Authority.--Federal funds made available under this 
        section may be used to acquire non-Federal property for the 
        purposes of this section, in accordance with section 3, only if 
        that property is within the areas described in paragraph (2).
            (2) Property descriptions.--The property referred to in 
        paragraph (2) is the following:
                    (A) Jerome, depicted in Figure 7.1 of the Site 
                Document.
                    (B) Rohwer, depicted in Figure 11.2 of the Site 
                Document.
                    (C) Topaz, depicted in Figure 12.2 of the Site 
                Document.
                    (D) Honouliuli, located on the southern part of the 
                Island of Oahu, Hawaii, and within the land area 
                bounded by H1 to the south, Route 750 (Kunia Road) to 
                the east, the Honouliuli Forest Reserve to the west, 
                and Kunia town and Schofield Barracks to the north.
            (3) No effect on private property.--The authority granted 
        in this subsection shall not constitute a Federal designation 
        or have any effect on private property ownership.
    (d) Matching Fund Requirement.--The Secretary shall require a 
<DELETED>25 percent</DELETED>  50 percent non-Federal match for funds 
provided under this section.
    (e) Sunset of Authority.--This Act shall have no force or effect on 
and after the date that is 2 years after the disbursement to grantees 
under this section of the total amount of funds authorized to be 
appropriated under section 4.

SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS.

    For purposes of this Act the following definitions apply:
     (1) Historic Confinement Sites.--(A) The term ``historic 
confinement sites'' means the 10 internment camp sites referred to as 
Gila River, Granada, Heart Mountain, Jerome, Manzanar, Minidoka, 
Poston, Rohwer, Topaz, and Tule Lake and depicted in Figures 4.1, 5.1, 
6.1, 7.1, 8.4, 9.2, 10.6, 11.2, 12.2, and 13.2, respectively, of the 
Site Document; and
            (B) other historically significant locations, as determined 
        by the Secretary, where Japanese Americans were detained during 
        World War II.
            (2) Secretary.--The term ``Secretary'' means the Secretary 
        of the Interior.
            (3) Site document.--The term ``Site Document'' means the 
        document titled ``Confinement and Ethnicity: An Overview of 
        World War II Japanese American Relocation Sites'', published by 
        the Western Archeological and Conservation Center, National 
        Park Service, in 1999.

SEC. 3. PRIVATE PROPERTY PROTECTION.

    No Federal funds made available to carry out this Act may be used 
to acquire any real property or any interest in any real property 
without the written consent of the owner or owners of that property or 
interest in property.

SEC. 4. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.

    There are authorized to be appropriated to the Secretary 
$38,000,000 to carry out this Act. Such sums shall remain available 
until expended.
                                                       Calendar No. 557

109th CONGRESS

  2d Session

                               H. R. 1492

                          [Report No. 109-314]

_______________________________________________________________________

                                 AN ACT

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

_______________________________________________________________________

                             July 31, 2006

                        Reported with amendments
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