H. R. 1492
One Hundred Ninth Congress
of the
United States of America 
AT THE SECOND SESSION 
Begun and held at the City of Washington on Tuesday, 
the third day of January, two thousand and six 
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 pro-
gram within the National Park Service to encourage, support, recog-
nize, 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. 
(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 confine-
ment 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 appropria-
tions, make grants to the entities described in paragraph (1) 
only in accordance with the criteria developed under that para-
graph. 
(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 Docu-
ment. 
(B) Rohwer, depicted in Figure 11.2 of the Site Docu-
ment. 
(C) Topaz, depicted in Figure 12.2 of the Site Docu-
ment.
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(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 des-
ignation or have any effect on private property ownership. 
(d) MATCHING
FUND
REQUIREMENT.—The Secretary shall 
require a 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 author-
ized 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.
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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.
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
Vice President of the United States and
President of the Senate.