[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 152 (2006), Part 17]
[Senate]
[Pages 22254-22255]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




TO PROVIDE FOR THE PRESERVATION OF THE HISTORIC CONFINEMENT SITES WHERE 
  JAPANESE AMERICANS WERE DETAINED DURING WORLD WAR II, AND FOR OTHER 
                                PURPOSES

  The Senate proceeded to consider the bill (H.R. 1492) to provide for 
the preservation of the historic confinement sites where Japanese 
Americans were detained during World War II, and for other purposes, 
which had been reported from the Committee on Energy and Natural 
Resources, with amendments, as follows:
  (The parts of the bill intended to be stricken are shown in boldface 
brackets and the parts of the bill intended to be inserted are shown in 
italics.)

                               H.R. 1492

       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,

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     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.--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 nonprofit 
     organizations to assist in carrying out subsection (a).]
       (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 [25 percent]  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.
  The committee amendments were agreed to.
  The amendments were ordered to be engrossed and the bill to be read a 
third time.
  The bill (H.R. 1492), as amended, was read the third time, and 
passed.

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