109TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. R. 1492

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.

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
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1 SECTION 1. PRESERVATION OF HISTORIC CONFINEMENT 

2 SITES. 

3 (a) PRESERVATION PROGRAM.—The Secretary shall 

4 create a program within the National Park Service to en5 courage, support, recognize, and work in partnership with 

6 citizens, Federal agencies, State, local, and tribal govern7 ments, other public entities, educational institutions, and 

8 private nonprofit organizations for the purpose of identi9 fying, researching, evaluating, interpreting, protecting, re10 storing, repairing, and acquiring historic confinement sites 

11 in order that present and future generations may learn 

12 and gain inspiration from these sites and that these sites 

13 will demonstrate the Nation’s commitment to equal justice 

14 under the law. 

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

16 the Japanese American National Heritage Coalition, shall 

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

18 public entities, educational institutions, and private non19 profit organizations to assist in carrying out subsection 

20 (a). 

21 (c) PROPERTY ACQUISITION.—

22 (1) AUTHORITY.—Federal funds made available 

23 under this section may be used to acquire non-Fed24 eral property for the purposes of this section, in ac25 cordance with section 3, only if that property is 

26 within the areas described in paragraph (2). 
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1 (2) PROPERTY DESCRIPTIONS.—The property 

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

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

4 Site Document. 

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

6 Site Document. 

7 (C) Topaz, depicted in Figure 12.2 of the 

8 Site Document. 

9 (D) Honouliuli, located on the southern 

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

11 the land area bounded by H1 to the south, 

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

13 Honouliuli Forest Reserve to the west, and 

14 Kunia town and Schofield Barracks to the 

15 north. 

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

17 authority granted in this subsection shall not con18 stitute a Federal designation or have any effect on 

19 private property ownership. 

20 (d) MATCHING FUND REQUIREMENT.—The Sec21 retary shall require a 25 percent non-Federal match for 

22 funds provided under this section. 

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

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

25 the disbursement to grantees under this section of the 
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1 total amount of funds authorized to be appropriated under 

2 section 4. 

3 SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS. 

4 For purposes of this Act the following definitions 

5 apply: 

6 (1) HISTORIC CONFINEMENT SITES.—(A) The 

7 term ‘‘historic confinement sites’’ means the 10 in8 ternment camp sites referred to as Gila River, Gra9 nada, Heart Mountain, Jerome, Manzanar, 

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

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

12 10.6, 11.2, 12.2, and 13.2, respectively, of the Site 

13 Document; and 

14 (B) other historically significant locations, as 

15 determined by the Secretary, where Japanese Ameri16 cans were detained during World War II. 

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

18 the Secretary of the Interior. 

19 (3) SITE DOCUMENT.—The term ‘‘Site Docu20 ment’’ means the document titled ‘‘Confinement and 

21 Ethnicity: An Overview of World War II Japanese 

22 American Relocation Sites’’, published by the West23 ern Archeological and Conservation Center, National 

24 Park Service, in 1999. 
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1 SEC. 3. PRIVATE PROPERTY PROTECTION. 

2 No Federal funds made available to carry out this 

3 Act may be used to acquire any real property or any inter4 est in any real property without the written consent of 

5 the owner or owners of that property or interest in prop6 erty. 

7 SEC. 4. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS. 

8 There are authorized to be appropriated to the Sec9 retary $38,000,000 to carry out this Act. Such sums shall 

10 remain available until expended.

Passed the House of Representatives November 16, 

2005. 

Attest:

Clerk. 
109TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. R. 1492

AN ACT

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