To provide for the establishment of the USS Oklahoma Memorial.

SA 1388. Mr. INHOFE submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 1042, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2006 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe personnel strengths for such fiscal year for the Armed Forces, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

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SEC. 10___. ESTABLISHMENT OF THE USS OKLAHOMA MEMORIAL.

(a) Site and Funding for Memorial.--Not later than 6 months after the date of enactment of this section, the Secretary of the Navy, in consultation with the Secretary of the Interior shall identify an appropriate site on Ford Island for a memorial for the USS Oklahoma consistent with the “Pearl Harbor Naval Complex Design Guidelines and Evaluation Criteria for Memorials, April 2005”. The USS Oklahoma Foundation shall be solely responsible for raising the funds necessary to design and erect a dignified and suitable memorial to the naval personnel serving aborad the USS Oklahoma when it was attacked on December 7, 1941.

(b) Administration and Maintenance of Memorial.--After the site has been selected, the Secretary of the Interior shall administer and maintain the site as part of the USS Arizona Memorial, a unit of the National Park System, in accordance with the laws and regulations applicable to land administered by the National Park Service and any Memorandum of Understanding between the Secretary of the Navy and the Secretary of the Interior. The Secretary of the Navy shall continue to have jurisdiction over the land selected as the site.

(c) Future Memorials.--Any future memorials for U.S. Naval Vessels that were attacked at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, shall be consistent with the “Pearl Harbor Naval Complex Design Guidelines and Evaluation Criteria for Memorials, April 2005”.