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[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.
