36 U.S.C. § 2108 — Pacific War Memorial and other historical and memorial sites on Corregidor

(a) General. After the Government of the Republic of the Philippines and the United States Government make an agreement, the American Battle Monuments Commission must restore, operate, and maintain the Pacific War Memorial and the other historical and memorial sites on Corregidor. (b) Personnel. The Commission may employ the personnel needed to carry out this section. (c) Use of Other Departments, Agencies, and Instrumentalities. Departments, agencies, and instrumentalities of the United States Government may help the Commission on a reimbursable basis. (d) Authority To Solicit Contributions. The Commission may ask for and accept private contributions. It must deposit those contributions in the fund established by subsection (f). (e) Use of Private Amounts. The Commission must use private amounts to carry out this section, except to the extent that amounts are appropriated under subsection (g). (f) Fund. (1) The Treasury has a fund that the Commission may use only to carry out this section. The fund consists of—(A) amounts deposited into it, and interest and sale or redemption proceeds credited to it, under paragraph (2); and (B) obligations acquired under paragraph (3). (2) The Commission’s Chairman must deposit into the fund amounts accepted under subsection (d). The Secretary of the Treasury must credit the fund with interest on obligations held in it and with proceeds from selling or redeeming those obligations. (3) The Secretary must invest any part of the fund that the Chairman decides is not needed for current expenses. Each investment must be an interest-bearing obligation of the United States Government, or an obligation whose principal and interest the Government guarantees. The Chairman must decide that the investment’s maturity is suitable for the fund. (4) The Chairman must decide what amount in the fund exceeds the cost of carrying out this section. That excess must be deposited in the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts to reimburse the United States Government for amounts appropriated under subsection (g). (g) Authorization of Appropriations. Congress may appropriate—(1) $6,000,000 for preparing the sites, designing, planning, constructing, and paying related administrative costs for restoring the Memorial and the other historical and memorial sites described in subsection (a); and (2) amounts needed to operate and maintain the Memorial and those other sites.