§3733 Cooperative agreement between Department of the Interior and Indian tribes

Summary

The Secretary of the Interior may make cooperative agreements with Indian tribes to run job and workforce training, create and share farm education and resource planning materials, and do land, facility, and other natural resource work. The Secretary can do this when the Secretary decides the work will help Indians and tribes. Under those agreements, the Secretary may advance or repay money to contractors from any appropriated funds for similar work, or provide or share materials, supplies, facilities, or equipment, without following section 3324 of title 31. Tribes and their employees can carry out the work under Interior supervision in emergencies or when both sides agree, but they are not federal employees except for the purposes of sections 2671 through 2680 of title 28 and sections 8101 through 8193 of title 5. Nothing here limits the Secretary’s authority to make other cooperative agreements allowed by law.