To provide for the establishment of a memorial to the U.S.S. Oklahoma as part of the USS Arizona Memorial in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.

May 26, 2005

Mr. COLE of Oklahoma introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Resources

To provide for the establishment of a memorial to the U.S.S. Oklahoma as part of the USS Arizona Memorial in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

This Act may be cited as the `U.S.S. Oklahoma Memorial Act of 2005'.

SEC. 2. ESTABLISHMENT OF MEMORIAL TO U.S.S. OKLAHOMA.

(a) Identification of Site for Memorial- The Secretary of the Interior, in consultation with the Secretary of the Navy, shall identify an appropriate site on Ford Island, Hawaii, for the location of a memorial to the U.S.S. Oklahoma, which was sunk during the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.

(b) Establishment and Administration- After the site for the memorial is identified under subsection (a), the Secretary of the Interior shall establish and administer a memorial to the U.S.S. Oklahoma as part of the USS Arizona Memorial, a unit of the National Park System, in accordance with the laws and regulations applicable to lands administered by the National Park Service.

(c) Memorialization Plan- Not later than one year after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of the Interior shall submit to Congress a memorialization plan for the portion of Pearl Harbor where United States naval vessels were attacked on December 7, 1941. The Secretary of the Interior shall prepare the plan in consultation with the Secretary of the Navy.

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