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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. 

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 


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1 citizens, Federal agencies, State, local, and tribal govern2 ments, other public entities, educational institutions, and 

3 private nonprofit organizations for the purpose of identi4 fying, researching, evaluating, interpreting, protecting, re5 storing, repairing, and acquiring historic confinement sites 

6 in order that present and future generations may learn 

7 and gain inspiration from these sites and that these sites 

8 will demonstrate the Nation’s commitment to equal justice 

9 under the law. 

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

11 the Japanese American National Heritage Coalition, shall 

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

13 public entities, educational institutions, and private non14 profit organizations to assist in carrying out subsection 

15 (a). 

16 (b) GRANTS.— 

17 (1) CRITERIA.—The Secretary, after consultation 

18 with State, local, and tribal governments, other public 

19 entities, educational institutions, and private non20 profit organizations (including organizations involved 

21 in the preservation of historic confinement sites), shall 

22 develop criteria for making grants under paragraph 

23 (2) to assist in carrying out subsection (a). 

24 (2) PROVISION OF GRANTS.—Not later than 180 

25 days after the date on which funds are made available 


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1 to carry out this Act, the Secretary shall, subject to 

2 the availability of appropriations, make grants to the 

3 entities described in paragraph (1) only in accord4 ance with the criteria developed under that para5 graph. 

6 (c) PROPERTY ACQUISITION.— 

7 (1) AUTHORITY.—Federal funds made available 

8 under this section may be used to acquire non-Fed9 eral property for the purposes of this section, in ac10 cordance with section 3, only if that property is 

11 within the areas described in paragraph (2). 

12 (2) PROPERTY DESCRIPTIONS.—The property 

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

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

15 Site Document. 

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

17 Site Document. 

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

19 Site Document. 

20 (D) Honouliuli, located on the southern 

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

22 the land area bounded by H1 to the south, 

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

24 Honouliuli Forest Reserve to the west, and 


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1 Kunia town and Schofield Barracks to the 

2 north. 

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

4 authority granted in this subsection shall not con5 stitute a Federal designation or have any effect on 

6 private property ownership. 

7 (d) MATCHING FUND REQUIREMENT.—The Sec8 retary shall require a 25 percent 50 percent non-Federal 

9 match for funds provided under this section. 

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

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

12 the disbursement to grantees under this section of the 

13 total amount of funds authorized to be appropriated under 

14 section 4. 

15 SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS. 

16 For purposes of this Act the following definitions 

17 apply: 

18 (1) HISTORIC CONFINEMENT SITES.—(A) The term 

19 ‘‘historic confinement sites’’ means the 10 internment 

20 camp sites referred to as Gila River, Granada, Heart 

21 Mountain, Jerome, Manzanar, Minidoka, Poston, Rohwer, 

22 Topaz, and Tule Lake and depicted in Figures 4.1, 5.1, 

23 6.1, 7.1, 8.4, 9.2, 10.6, 11.2, 12.2, and 13.2, respectively, 

24 of the Site Document; and 


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1 (B) other historically significant locations, as 

2 determined by the Secretary, where Japanese Ameri3 cans were detained during World War II. 

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

5 the Secretary of the Interior. 

6 (3) SITE DOCUMENT.—The term ‘‘Site Docu7 ment’’ means the document titled ‘‘Confinement and 

8 Ethnicity: An Overview of World War II Japanese 

9 American Relocation Sites’’, published by the West10 ern Archeological and Conservation Center, National 

11 Park Service, in 1999. 

12 SEC. 3. PRIVATE PROPERTY PROTECTION. 

13 No Federal funds made available to carry out this 

14 Act may be used to acquire any real property or any inter15 est in any real property without the written consent of 

16 the owner or owners of that property or interest in prop17 erty. 

18 SEC. 4. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS. 

19 There are authorized to be appropriated to the Sec20 retary $38,000,000 to carry out this Act. Such sums shall 

21 remain available until expended. 


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Calendar No. 557 

109TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. R. 1492 

[Report No. 109

–314] 

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 

JULY 31, 2006 

Reported with amendments 


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