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.
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-Fed-
eral property for the purposes of this section, in ac-
cordance 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 con-
stitute a Federal designation or have any effect on 
private property ownership. 
(d) MATCHING FUND REQUIREMENT.—The Sec-
retary shall require a 25 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 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 
determined by the Secretary, where Japanese Ameri-
cans 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 West-
ern 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 inter-
est in any real property without the written consent of 
the owner or owners of that property or interest in prop-
erty. 
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.
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 con-
finement sites where Japanese Americans were 
detained during World War II, and for other 
purposes.