CAPITOL HILL -- Internment camps where Japanese-Americans were kept behind barbed wire during World War Two will be preserved under a measure passed on Capitol Hill today.

As one of its last acts, the Republican-led Congress today sent President Bush legislation establishing a $38 million program of National Park Service grants.

The money will be used to restore and pay for research at ten camps where the government sent people of Japanese descent.

The National Park Service already operates facilities at two of the ten camps: the Manzanar National Historic Site in California and the Minidoka Internment National Monument in southern Idaho.

The forced removal of Japanese-Americans was ordered by President Franklin Roosevelt two months after Japan's surprise attack on Pearl Harbor.

The camps held thousands of West Coast residents who were deemed a security risk because they had at least one-sixteenth Japanese ancestry.