[Congressional Bills 109th Congress]
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[H.R. 1492 Enrolled Bill (ENR)]

        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 program 
within the National Park Service to encourage, support, recognize, 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 confinement 
    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 appropriations, 
    make grants to the entities described in paragraph (1) only in 
    accordance with the criteria developed under that paragraph.
    (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 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 constitute a Federal designation 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 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 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.
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.