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Japanese American Confinement Sites Grant Program Japanese American National Park Service Confinement Sites U.S. Department of the Interior Grant Program The Heart Mountain Interpretive Learning Center, designed by Schutz Foss Architects of Billings, Montana. Winter 2010 Photo courtesy: Heart Mountain, Wyoming Foundation. A YEAR IN REVIEW: PRESERVING AND INTERPRETING WORLD WAR II JAPANESE AMERICAN CONFINEMENT SITES The National Park Service (NPS) is pleased to report contributions raised by groups and individuals working to on the progress of the Fiscal Year (FY) 2009 awards preserve the sites and their histories. and on the new FY2010 grant awards for the Japanese American Confinement Sites Grant Program. Over the The FY2010 grants range from $17,295 to the Friends past two years, the Japanese American Confinement of Minidoka to re-establish the historic Honor Roll, Sites Grant Program has awarded $3,895,000 in federal which commemorated Japanese Americans serving funds to private nonprofit organizations; educational in the U.S. Army, to $832,879 to the Heart Mountain, institutions; state, local, and tribal governments; and other Wyoming Foundation to complete the construction of public entities working towards the preservation and the interior and the remaining exterior infrastructure interpretation of historic confinement sites where more for the 11,000-square-foot Heart Mountain Interpretive than 120,000 Japanese Americans were detained during Learning Center in Park County, Wyoming. World War II. The 42 projects awarded over the past two years In 2009, Congress appropriated $1 million for the first year demonstrate the tremendous commitment of the of the grant program, from which the NPS awarded 19 numerous individuals, organizations, stakeholders, and grants totaling $970,000. communities who have dedicated their time and resources towards the goal of preserving and interpreting these In 2010, the second year of the grant program, the NPS sites and stories. Collectively, these projects help us gain awarded 23 grants totaling $2,925,000 to help fund a better understanding of the past, engage new audiences, projects in 12 states. The grants were awarded through and build new partnerships to work collaboratively a competitive process, providing $2 in federal money towards the long-term preservation of these historic sites for every $1 in non-federal funds and/or “in-kind” and the memories and lessons they hold. 1 National Park Service Status of Funding for the Fiscal Year 2011 Background Japanese American Confinement Sites Grant Cycle On December 21, 2006, President George W. Bush signed Public Law 109-441 (16USC 461), which authorized the NPS to create a program to encourage and support the As a Federal agency, the NPS fiscal year begins on preservation and interpretation of historic confinement October 1 and ends on September 30 each year. At sites where Japanese Americans were detained during the time of this publication, Congress has not yet World War II. The law authorized up to $38 million passed the government’s formal operating budget, for the life of the grant program to identify, research, known as an appropriations bill, for Fiscal Year evaluate, interpret, protect, restore, repair, and acquire 2011. In its place, Congress passed a continuing historic confinement sites in order that present and resolution (signed into Public Law 111-242 on future generations may learn and gain inspiration from September 30, 2010) that temporarily funds the these sites and to demonstrate the Nation’s commitment Federal government through December 3, 2010. to equal justice under the law. Governmental funding after December 3 is dependent on Congress returning from its autumn The Act also directed the NPS to consult with a variety recess and passing an appropriations bill. of governmental, educational, and private nonprofit organizations in the development of a grant program to In order to ensure that the NPS has the achieve the purposes of the Act. On June 11, 2007, the administrative ability to successfully award House Committee on Appropriations directed the NPS Japanese American Confinement Sites grants in to provide a report that described how the agency would 2011, the grant program will operate on a schedule implement the grant program (H. Rpt. 110-187). similar to that of 2010. Grant applications will be announced on January 4, 2011; applications will be In preparation for a congressional appropriation and in due on March 1, 2011; and grants will be awarded response to the directive from the House when funds are appropriated by Congress. As we Committee on Appropriations, the NPS engaged the receive updated information about funds available public to gain valuable input to assist in the development for the 2011 cycle, we will post it on the Japanese of this grant program. The NPS consulted with state, American Confinement Sites Grant Program local, and tribal governments, other public entities, website: http://www.nps.gov/history/hps/hpg/ educational institutions, and private nonprofit JACS/index.html organizations, including those involved in the preservation of historic confinement sites. During this process, the NPS engaged more than 1,000 individuals representing more than 40 organizations, governmental entities, and academic institutions. They shared their hopes and expectations and helped shape the evaluation criteria and guidelines for the grant program. On May 21, 2008, this information was presented by the Department of the Interior, on behalf of the NPS, to the House Committee on Appropriations in the Report to Congress Pursuant to Public Law 109-441: Preservation of Japanese American World War II Confinement Sites. This report outlined the legislative requirements, project categories, evaluation criteria, and program administration guidelines for the grant program. Overlooking the Granada Relocation Center (Amache). Photo courtesy: The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. 2 Public Law 109-441 - Preservation of Japanese American World War II Confinement Sites OVERVIEW OF THE 2010 JAPANESE AMERICAN CONFINEMENT SITES GRANT PROGRAM Announcement of Fiscal Year 2010 Grant Cycle On October 30, 2009, Congress appropriated $3 million for interpretation and education related to historic Fiscal Year 2010 of the grant program (Public Law 111-88). confinement sites (such as wayside exhibits or educational In early January 2010, the NPS invited organizations and curricula); preservation of confinement sites and related entities working to preserve historic Japanese American historic resources (such as restoration of historic buildings confinement sites and their history to submit grant or collections conservation); planning projects (such applications. as resource management plans); and non-Federal real property acquisition (allowed only at Heart Mountain As defined by Public Law 109-441, eligible confinement (WY), Honouliuli (HI), Jerome (AR), Rohwer (AR), and sites include the ten War Relocation Authority camps: Topaz (UT), per stipulations of Public Laws 109-441 and Gila River (AZ), Granada (CO), Heart Mountain (WY), 111-88). Jerome (AR), Manzanar (CA), Minidoka (ID), Poston (AZ), Rohwer (AR), Topaz (UT), and Tule Lake (CA), as well as Postcards announcing the availability of grant other historically significant locations identified in the applications and guidelines were mailed in January NPS report Confinement and Ethnicity and as determined 2010 to a mailing list of more than 10,000 individuals by the Secretary of the Interior, where Japanese Americans and organizations, including state, local, and tribal were detained during World War II. governments, public entities, educational institutions, private nonprofit organizations (including organizations The grant program guidelines listed seven major involved in the preservation of historic confinement sites), categories of eligible activities for the Japanese American former internees and their families, and individuals within Confinement Sites grants to benefit one or more the Japanese American community. The FY2010 grant confinement sites: capital projects (such as construction cycle also was announced through the grant program of new interpretive centers); documentation (such website, press releases, and other correspondence. The as archeological surveys); oral history interviews; NPS held informational meetings in Chicago, Denver, Former internees share their experiences with Densho, which received a FY2009 grant award to document and preserve the under- documented stories from ten War Relocation Authority Camps and fifteen assembly centers across the country. Photo courtesy: Densho. 3 National Park Service Honolulu, Little Rock, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, and Washington DC to meet with interested grant applicants and address questions about the grant program and application process. Grant Selection Process By the application deadline of March 4, 2010, the NPS received 42 applications, requesting nearly $7.8 million in federal funds. During the week of March 15, 2010, the Japanese American Confinement Sites Grants selection panel convened to evaluate the grant proposals for the FY2010 grant cycle. The panel was composed of NPS staff from the Intermountain, Midwest, and Pacific West Regions. Appointed by NPS Regional Directors, the six panel members represented a variety of backgrounds and disciplines, including expertise in ethnography, architecture, construction, planning, interpretation, and partnerships. As was the case for the 2009 panel, the 2010 Little girls playing house at the
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