§2 Definitions.

Summary

The Act defines several key words used later. "Historic confinement sites" are the ten named World War II internment camps — Gila River, Granada, Heart Mountain, Jerome, Manzanar, Minidoka, Poston, Rohwer, Topaz, and Tule Lake (shown in the Site Document) — and any other places the Secretary decides were used to hold Japanese Americans during World War II. "Secretary" is the Secretary of the Interior. "Site Document" is the report 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. "Japanese American Confinement Education Grants" are competitive grants, given through the program to Japanese American organizations, to educate people in the United States (including with digital resources) about the history and importance of Japanese American confinement during World War II so present and future generations learn from that history and the United States' commitment to equal justice under the law. "Japanese American organization" is a private nonprofit in the United States formed to promote understanding and appreciation of the country's ethnic and cultural diversity by showing the Japanese American experience in U.S. history.