Granada Relocation Center National Historic Site Act of 2006

the Granada Relocation Center, also known as Camp Amache, was located in the Arkansas Valley in Prowers County in southeastern Colorado;

of the 10 camps built across the country, Camp Amache was the only one built on private lands that were purchased outright or acquired by condemnation;

the Granada Relocation Center had the smallest population of the 10 camps but was the tenth largest population in Colorado at the time;

more than 10,000 Japanese-Americans were interned at the Granada Relocation Center between August 1942 and October 1945;

314 of the original 10,500 acres of Camp Amache have been found to be nationally significant and are listed on the National Register of Historic Places;

different construction methods were used at Camp Amache than at all the other sites;

these differences are mirrored in the remaining foundations of housing, administrative, warehouse, other support buildings, and the cemetery that remain within the core area of the Granada Relocation Center;

Camp Amache had the largest and most diversified agricultural enterprise of all the camps, including a 500-acre vocational farm for high school agriculture students, and

there is strong local, regional, and national support for recognizing and telling the relatively unknown story of internment of United States citizens of Japanese descent.

Secretary

The term Secretary means the Secretary of the Interior acting through the Director of the National Park Service.

Historic site

The term historic site means the Granada Relocation Center, also known as Camp Amache.