ACTION ALERT: Applications for FY2010 Japanese American Confinement Sites Grant Program Available

Congress established the Japanese American Confinement Sites grant program (Public Law 109-441, 16 USC 461) for the preservation and interpretation of U.S. confinement sites where Japanese Americans were detained during World War II.  The law authorized up to $38 million for the entire life of the grant program to identify, research, evaluate, interpret, protect, restore, repair, and acquire historic confinement sites in order that present and future generations may learn and gain inspiration from these sites and that these sites will demonstrate the nation's commitment to equal justice under the law.  For Fiscal Year 2010, Congress appropriated $3 million for the use of this grant program; an increase from the $1 million Congress appropriated for fiscal year 2009.

Grant application materials for the FY2010 Japanese American Confinement Sites Grant Program are currently available.  Please visit the grant program website to download all application materials:

http://www.nps.gov/history/HPS/hpg/JACS/index.html

Informational meetings for interested grant applicants will be held in major cities across the nation in late January through mid-February 2010. Dates, times and locations will be made available on the grant program website as soon as possible.

Application packages must be received by Thursday, March 4, 2010.

Postal Service delivery:

National Park Service
ATTN: Kara Miyagishima
P.O. Box 25287
Denver, CO 80225-0287

or Express delivery:

National Park Service
ATTN: Kara Miyagishima
12795 West Alameda Pkwy.
Lakewood, CO 80228-2838

If you have any questions, please contact one of the NPS regional representatives below for more information:

Intermountain Region
AZ, CO, MT, NM, OK, TX, UT, WY
Kara Miyagishima
303.969.2885
kara_miyagishima@nps.gov

Midwest Region
AR, IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO
ND, NE,OH, SD,WI
Rachel Franklin Weekley
402.661.1928
rachel_franklin-weekley@nps.gov

Pacific West Region
AK, CA, ID, NV, OR, WA, and other states not listed
Tom Leatherman
925.943.1531, ext. 122
tom_leatherman@nps.gov

Hawaii
Frank Hays
808.541.2693, ext. 723
frank_hays@nps.gov