§ 410ggg-1. — Administration of the National Historical Park.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 16USC410ggg-1]
TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
CHAPTER 1--NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES
SUBCHAPTER LIX-EE--ROSIE THE RIVETER/WORLD WAR II HOME FRONT NATIONAL
HISTORICAL PARK
Sec. 410ggg-1. Administration of the National Historical Park
(a) In general
(1) General administration
The Secretary of the Interior (in this subchapter referred to as
the ``Secretary'') shall administer the park in accordance with this
subchapter and the provisions of law generally applicable to units
of the National Park System, including sections 1, 2, 3, and 4 of
this title and sections 461 to 467 of this title.
(2) Specific authorities
The Secretary may interpret the story of Rosie the Riveter and
the World War II home front, conduct and maintain oral histories
that relate to the World War II home front theme, and provide
technical assistance in the preservation of historic properties that
support this story.
(b) Cooperative agreements
(1) General agreements
The Secretary may enter into cooperative agreements with the
owners of the World War II Child Development Centers, the World War
II worker housing, the Kaiser-Permanente Field Hospital, and Fire
Station 67A, pursuant to which the Secretary may mark, interpret,
improve, restore, and provide technical assistance with respect to
the preservation and interpretation of such properties. Such
agreements shall contain, but need not be limited to, provisions
under which the Secretary shall have the right of access at
reasonable times to public portions of the property for interpretive
and other purposes, and that no changes or alterations shall be made
in the property except by mutual agreement.
(2) Limited agreements
The Secretary may consult and enter into cooperative agreements
with interested persons for interpretation and technical assistance
with the preservation of--
(A) the Ford Assembly Building;
(B) the intact dry docks/basin docks and five historic
structures at Richmond Shipyard <greek-i>3;
(C) the Shimada Peace Memorial Park;
(D) Westshore Park;
(E) the Rosie the Riveter Memorial;
(F) Sheridan Observation Point Park;
(G) the Bay Trail/Esplanade;
(H) Vincent Park; and
(I) the vessel S.S. RED OAK VICTORY, and Whirley Cranes
associated with shipbuilding in Richmond.
(c) Education center
The Secretary may establish a World War II Home Front Education
Center in the Ford Assembly Building. Such center shall include a
program that allows for distance learning and linkages to other
representative sites across the country, for the purpose of educating
the public as to the significance of the site and the World War II Home
Front.
(d) Use of Federal funds
(1) Non-Federal matching
(A) As a condition of expending any funds appropriated to the
Secretary for the purposes of the cooperative agreements under
subsection (b)(2) of this section, the Secretary shall require that
such expenditure must be matched by expenditure of an equal amount
of funds, goods, services, or in-kind contributions provided by non-
Federal sources.
(B) With the approval of the Secretary, any donation of
property, services, or goods from a non-Federal source may be
considered as a contribution of funds from a non-Federal source for
purposes of this paragraph.
(2) Cooperative agreement
Any payment made by the Secretary pursuant to a cooperative
agreement under this section shall be subject to an agreement that
conversion, use, or disposal of the project so assisted for purposes
contrary to the purposes of this subchapter, as determined by the
Secretary, shall entitle the United States to reimbursement of the
greater of--
(A) all funds paid by the Secretary to such project; or
(B) the proportion of the increased value of the project
attributable to such payments, determined at the time of such
conversion, use, or disposal.
(e) Acquisition
(1) Ford Assembly Building
The Secretary may acquire a leasehold interest in the Ford
Assembly Building for the purposes of operating a World War II Home
Front Education Center.
(2) Other facilities
The Secretary may acquire, from willing sellers, lands or
interests in the World War II day care centers, the World War II
worker housing, the Kaiser-Permanente Field Hospital, and Fire
Station 67, through donation, purchase with donated or appropriated
funds, transfer from any other Federal agency, or exchange.
(3) Artifacts
The Secretary may acquire and provide for the curation of
historic artifacts that relate to the park.
(f) Donations
The Secretary may accept and use donations of funds, property, and
services to carry out this subchapter.
(g) General management plan
(1) In general
Not later than 3 complete fiscal years after the date funds are
made available, the Secretary shall prepare, in consultation with
the City of Richmond, California, and transmit to the Committee on
Resources of the House of Representatives and the Committee on
Energy and Natural Resources of the Senate a general management plan
for the park in accordance with the provisions of section 1a-7(b) of
this title and other applicable law.
(2) Preservation of setting
The general management plan shall include a plan to preserve the
historic setting of the Rosie the Riveter/World War II Home Front
National Historical Park, which shall be jointly developed and
approved by the City of Richmond.
(3) Additional sites
The general management plan shall include a determination of
whether there are additional representative sites in Richmond that
should be added to the park or sites in the rest of the United
States that relate to the industrial, governmental, and citizen
efforts during World War II that should be linked to and interpreted
at the park. Such determination shall consider any information or
findings developed in the National Park Service study of the World
War II Home Front under section 410ggg-2 of this title.
(Pub. L. 106-352, Sec. 3, Oct. 24, 2000, 114 Stat. 1370.)
Section Referred to in Other Sections
This section is referred to in section 410ggg-3 of this title.
