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Union Calendar No. 84 
109TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 1492 
[Report No. 109–142] 
To provide for the preservation of the historic confinement sites where Japa-
nese Americans were detained during World War II, and for other 
purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
APRIL 6, 2005 
Mr. THOMAS (for himself, Ms. MATSUI, and Mr. HONDA) introduced the 
following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Resources 
JUNE 21, 2005 
Additional sponsors: Mr. MCDERMOTT, Mr. BACA, Mr. CASE, Ms. JACKSON- 
LEE of Texas, Mr. ABERCROMBIE, Ms. BORDALLO, Mr. FALEOMAVAEGA, 
Mr. MCKEON, Mr. UDALL of Colorado, Mr. INSLEE, Mr. FOLEY, Mr. 
FILNER, Mr. RUSH, Mr. DAVIS of Illinois, Mr. RADANOVICH, Mr. ISSA, 
Mr. CARDOZA, Mr. LEWIS of California, Mr. CALVERT, Mr. BOOZMAN, 
Mrs. BONO, Mr. DANIEL E. LUNGREN of California, Mr. FARR, Mr. 
THOMPSON of California, Ms. ROYBAL-ALLARD, Ms. GRANGER, Mr. SIM-
MONS, Mr. ENGLISH of Pennsylvania, Mr. SHAYS, Mr. CONYERS, Mr. 
MCCRERY, Mr. KILDEE, Mrs. CHRISTENSEN, Mr. GRIJALVA, Mr. SMITH 
of Washington, Mr. COOPER, Mr. WAXMAN, Ms. ESHOO, Mr. COSTA, Ms. 
PELOSI, Ms. LEE, Mrs. TAUSCHER, Mr. LANTOS, Mrs. CAPPS, Ms. 
SOLIS, Mr. JINDAL, Mr. LAHOOD, Mr. CARDIN, Mr. GONZALEZ, Mr. 
PALLONE, Ms. DEGETTE, Mr. SHERMAN, Mr. OWENS, Mr. TOWNS, Ms. 
MILLENDER-MCDONALD, Ms. WATSON, Mr. CROWLEY, Mr. CUMMINGS, 
Mr. GEORGE MILLER of California, Mrs. JONES of Ohio, Mr. SNYDER, 
Mr. MATHESON, Mr. LEVIN, Mr. BECERRA, Mr. NUNES, Mr. BURTON of 
Indiana, Mr. SCHIFF, Mr. YOUNG of Alaska, Ms. HERSETH, Mr. BROWN 
of Ohio, Mr. RUPPERSBERGER, Mrs. BLACKBURN, Mr. KOLBE, Mr. HIN-
CHEY, Ms. KILPATRICK of Michigan, Mrs. NAPOLITANO, Mr. MCGOVERN, 
Mr. STARK, Mr. GUTIERREZ, Ms. WASSERMAN SCHULTZ, Mr. VAN 
HOLLEN, Mr. MEEKS of New York, Mr. PAYNE, Mr. BLUMENAUER, Ms. 
SCHAKOWSKY, Mr. SPRATT, Mr. PASCRELL, Mr. BISHOP of Georgia, Mr. 
LARSON of Connecticut, Mr. SALAZAR, Mr. MORAN of Virginia, Ms.
WOOLSEY, Mr. WU, Mr. SKELTON, Mr. MENENDEZ, Ms. EDDIE BER-
NICE JOHNSON of Texas, Mr. ISRAEL, Mr. ROSS, Mr. NADLER, Mr. 
SERRANO, Mr. BISHOP of Utah, Mr. CANNON, Ms. ZOE LOFGREN of 
California, Mr. BERMAN, Mr. LEWIS of Georgia, Ms. LINDA T. SA´NCHEZ 
of California, Mr. AL GREEN of Texas, Mr. PASTOR, Mr. EVANS, Mr. 
JEFFERSON, Ms. MCCOLLUM of Minnesota, and Mr. SANDERS 
JUNE 21, 2005 
Reported with an amendment, committed to the Committee of the Whole 
House on the State of the Union, and ordered to be printed 
[Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert the part printed in italic] 
[For text of introduced bill, see copy of bill as introduced on April 6, 2005] 
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. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives 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 en-
courage, support, recognize, and work in partnership with 
citizens, Federal agencies, State, local, and tribal govern-
ments, other public entities, educational institutions, and 
private nonprofit organizations for the purpose of identi-
fying, researching, evaluating, interpreting, protecting, re-
storing, 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. 
(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 non-
profit organizations to assist in carrying out subsection (a). 
(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 accord-
ance with section 3, only if that property is within 
the areas described in paragraph (2). 
(2) PROPERTY DESCRIPTIONS.—The property re-
ferred 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 con-
stitute a Federal designation or have any effect on 
private property ownership. 
(d) MATCHING FUND REQUIREMENT.—The Secretary 
shall require a 25 percent non-Federal match for funds pro-
vided 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 sec-
tion 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 in-
ternment camp sites referred to as Gila River, Gra-
nada, 
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 de-
termined 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 Docu-
ment’’ 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 Sec-
retary $38,000,000 to carry out this Act. Such sums shall 
remain available until expended.
Union Calendar No. 84 
109TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. R. 1492 
[Report No. 109–142] 
A BILL 
To provide for the preservation of the historic con-
finement sites where Japanese Americans were 
detained during World War II, and for other 
purposes. 
JUNE 21, 2005 
Reported with an amendment, committed to the Com-
mittee of the Whole House on the State of the Union, 
and ordered to be printed