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U.S. Code as of:
01/19/04
Section 458ee. Reports
(a) Requirement
The Secretary shall submit to Congress a written report on
January 1 of each year following October 25, 1994, regarding the
administration of this part.
(b) Contents
The report shall -
(1) identify the relative costs and benefits of
Self-Governance;
(2) identify, with particularity, all funds that are
specifically or functionally related to the provision by the
Secretary of services and benefits to Self-Governance tribes and
their members;
(3) identify the funds transferred to each Self-Governance
tribe and the corresponding reduction in the Federal bureaucracy;
(4) include the separate views of the tribes; and
(5) include the funding formula for individual tribal shares of
Central Office funds, together with the comments of affected
Indian tribes, developed under subsection (d) of this section.
(c) Report on non-BIA programs
(1) In order to optimize opportunities for including non-Bureau
of Indian Affairs programs, services, functions, and activities, or
portions thereof, in agreements with tribes participating in
Self-Governance under this part, the Secretary shall -
(A) review all programs, services, functions, and activities,
or portions thereof, administered by the Department of the
Interior, other than through the Bureau of Indian Affairs,
without regard to the agency or office concerned; and
(B) not later than 90 days after October 25, 1994, provide to
the appropriate committees of Congress a listing of all such
programs, services, functions, and activities, or portions
thereof, that the Secretary determines, with the concurrence of
tribes participating in Self-Governance under this part, are
eligible for inclusion in such agreements at the request of a
participating Indian tribe.
(2) The Secretary shall establish programmatic targets, after
consultation with tribes participating in Self-Governance under
this part, to encourage bureaus of the Department to assure that a
significant portion of such programs, services, functions, and
activities are actually included in the agreements negotiated under
section 458cc of this title.
(3) The listing and targets under paragraphs (1) and (2) shall be
published in the Federal Register and be made available to any
Indian tribe participating in Self-Governance under this part. The
list shall be published before January 1, 1995, and annually
thereafter by January 1 preceding the fiscal year in which the
targets are to be met.
(4) Thereafter, the Secretary shall annually review and publish
in the Federal Register, after consultation with tribes
participating in Self-Governance under this part, a revised listing
and programmatic targets.
(d) Report on Central Office funds
Within 90 days after October 25, 1994, the Secretary shall, in
consultation with Indian tribes, develop a funding formula to
determine the individual tribal share of funds controlled by the
Central Office of the Bureau of Indian Affairs for inclusion in the
Self-Governance compacts. The Secretary shall include such formula
in the annual report submitted to the Congress under subsection (b)
of this section, together with the views of the affected Indian
tribes.
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