THEME STUDY.

SEC. 202. THEME STUDY. (a) Study.—The Secretary of the Interior (hereinafter in this title referred to as the “Secretary”) is authorized and directed to prepare and transmit to the Congress no later than 2 years after the date funds are made available for this title a National Historic Landmark Theme Study on Japanese American history (hereinafter in this title referred to as the “Theme Study”). The purpose of the Theme Study shall be to identify the key sites in Japanese American history that illustrate the period in American history when personal justice was denied Japanese Americans. The Theme Study shall identify, evaluate, and nominate as national historic landmarks those sites, buildings, and structures that best illustrate or commemorate the period in American history from 1941 to 1946 when Japanese Americans were ordered to be detained, relocated, or excluded pursuant to Executive Order Number 9066, and other actions. The study shall include (but not be limited to) the following sites: (1) Internment and temporary detention camps where Japanese Americans were relocated, detained, and excluded pursuant to Executive Order Number 9066, issued on February 19, 1942. The internment camps include: Tule Lake, California; Rohwer, Arkansas; Gila River, Arizona; Poston, Arizona; Granada, Colorado; Jerome, Arkansas; Heart Mountain, Wyoming; Minidoka, Idaho; and Topaz, Utah. The temporary detention camps include: Pomona, California; Santa Anita, California; 106 STAT. 43Fresno, California; Pinedale, California; Tanforan in San Bruno, California; Sacramento, California; Marysville, California; Mayer, Arizona; Salinas, California; Turlock, California; Merced, California; Stockton, California; Tulare, California; Puyallup, Washington; and Portland, Oregon. (2) Angel Island, California, the port of entry for many Japanese Issei. (3) Camp Shelby, Mississippi, the training ground for the 442nd Infantry Regimental Combat Team. (4) Camp Savage and Fort Snelling, Minnesota, locations for the Military Intelligence Service Language School where Japanese Americans received Japanese language instruction, enabling the Japanese Americans to translate Japanese war plans into English. (5) Camp McCoy, Wisconsin, where the 100th Infantry Battalion was trained. (6) Terminal Island, California, the first location where Japanese Americans were forced to evacuate. (7) Bainbridge Island, Washington, where Japanese Americans were evacuated pursuant to Exclusion Order Number 1. (8) Immigration and Naturalization Service internment camps at Crystal City, Kennedy, and Seagoville, Texas, Missoula, Montana, and Bismarck, North Dakota. (b) Identification and List.—On the basis of the Theme Study, the Secretary shall identify possible new national historic landmarks appropriate to this theme and prepare a list in order of importance or merit of the most appropriate sites for national historic landmark designation.