[Congressional Bills 109th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2652 Introduced in House (IH)]






109th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2652

 To provide for the establishment of a memorial to the U.S.S. Oklahoma 
      as part of the USS Arizona Memorial in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 26, 2005

Mr. Cole of Oklahoma introduced the following bill; which was referred 
                     to the Committee on Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
 To provide for the establishment of a memorial to the U.S.S. Oklahoma 
      as part of the USS Arizona Memorial in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``U.S.S. Oklahoma Memorial Act of 
2005''.

SEC. 2. ESTABLISHMENT OF MEMORIAL TO U.S.S. OKLAHOMA.

    (a) Identification of Site for Memorial.--The Secretary of the 
Interior, in consultation with the Secretary of the Navy, shall 
identify an appropriate site on Ford Island, Hawaii, for the location 
of a memorial to the U.S.S. Oklahoma, which was sunk during the attack 
on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
    (b) Establishment and Administration.--After the site for the 
memorial is identified under subsection (a), the Secretary of the 
Interior shall establish and administer a memorial to the U.S.S. 
Oklahoma as part of the USS Arizona Memorial, a unit of the National 
Park System, in accordance with the laws and regulations applicable to 
lands administered by the National Park Service.
    (c) Memorialization Plan.--Not later than one year after the date 
of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of the Interior shall 
submit to Congress a memorialization plan for the portion of Pearl 
Harbor where United States naval vessels were attacked on December 7, 
1941. The Secretary of the Interior shall prepare the plan in 
consultation with the Secretary of the Navy.
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