U. S. Senator Mary Landrieu of Louisiana has introduced a bill to create the Civil War Sesquicentennial Commission. The text of the bill can be found here: http://74.86.203.130/bill/110-s2802/text

There has been some opposition to having such a commission and to having any national recognition of the sesquicentennial. Much of this opposition is based on an opinion that the Civil War should not be celebrated.