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 PUBLIC LAW 105-355 —NOV. 6, 1998 112 STAT. 3263 (4) Kaiser Corporation supported women workers by installing child care centers at the shipyards so mothers could work while their children were well cared for nearby. (5) These women, referred to as "Rosie the Riveter" and "Wendy the Welder", built hundreds of Liberty and Victory ships in record time for use by the United States Navy. Their labor played a crucial role in increasing American productivity during the war years and in meeting the demand for naval ships. (6) In part the Japanese plan to defeat the United States Navy was predicated on victory occurring before United States shipyards could build up its fleet of ships. (7) The City of Richmond, California, has dedicated the former site of Kaiser Shipyard #2 as Rosie the Riveter Memorial Park and will construct a memorial honoring American women's labor during World War II. The memorial will be representative of one of the Liberty ships built on the site during the war effort. (8) The City of Richmond, California, is committed to collective interpretative oral histories for the public to learn of the stories of the "Rosies" and "Wendys" who worked in the shipyards. (9) The Rosie the Riveter Park is a nationally significant site because there tens of thousands of women entered the workforce for the first time, working in heavy industry to support their families and the War effort. This was a turning point for the Richmond, California, area and the Nation as a whole, when women joined the workforce and successfully completed jobs for which previously it was believed they were incapable. (b) STUDY. — (1) IN GENERAL.— The Secretary of the Interior shall conduct a feasibility study to determine whether— (A) the Rosie the Riveter Park located in Richmond, California, is suitable for designation as an affiliated site to the National Park Service; and (B) the Rosie the Riveter Memorial Committee established by the City of Richmond, California, with respect to that park is eligible for technical assistance for interpretative functions relating to the park, including preservation of oral histories from former works at the Richmond Kaiser Shipyards. (2) REPORTS. —Not later than 6 months after the date of Deadlne. the enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall complete the study under paragraph (1) and submit a report containing findings, conclusions, and recommendations from the study to the Committee on Resources of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Energy and Environment of the Senate. SEC. 506. FORT DAVIS HISTORIC SITE, FORT DAVIS, TEXAS. The Act entitled "An Act Authorizing the establishment of a national historic site at Fort Davis, Jeff Davis County, Texas", approved September 8, 1961 (75 Stat. 488; 16 U.S.C. 461 note), is amended in the first section by striking "not to exceed four hundred and sixty acres" and inserting "not to exceed 476 acres".

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