Title 54 — National Park Service and Related ProgramsRelease 119-73not60

§1 Preservation of Historic Confinement Sites.

Title 54 › Subtitle Subtitle III— National Preservation Programs › § 1

Last updated Apr 5, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Secretary of the Interior must set up a program inside the National Park Service to work with citizens, federal, State, local, and tribal governments, schools, and nonprofits to find, study, explain, protect, restore, repair, and sometimes buy historic confinement sites so people now and in the future can learn from them and see the Nation’s commitment to equal justice. The Secretary must make grant rules after talking with those governments and groups, and must start awarding grants no later than 180 days after funds are available, if money is appropriated. Federal money can buy non‑Federal property only in Jerome, Rohwer, Topaz, Honouliuli (on Oahu within the named boundaries), and Heart Mountain. Buying property this way does not change who owns private land or create a federal designation. Grants must be matched 50 percent by non‑Federal funds. The program ends 2 years after the full amount authorized under section 4 is disbursed.

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Title 54, §1

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“(a)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)“(1)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)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)“(1)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)The property referred to in paragraph (2) [probably should be “(1)”] 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.

“(E)Heart Mountain, depicted in Figure 6.3 of the Site Document.

“(3)The authority granted in this subsection shall not constitute a Federal designation or have any effect on private property ownership.

“(d)The Secretary shall require a 50 percent non-Federal match for funds provided under this section.

“(e)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.

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54 U.S.C. § 1

Title 54 — National Park Service and Related Programs

Last Updated

Apr 5, 2026

Release point: 119-73not60