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§3057e–1 Distribution of funds among tribal organizations

Title 42 › Chapter CHAPTER 35— - PROGRAMS FOR OLDER AMERICANS › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER X— - GRANTS FOR NATIVE AMERICANS › Part Part A— - Indian Program › § 3057e–1

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

Grants to tribal organizations for fiscal year 1992 and later must be at least as large as the grant that group got in 1991, but only if money is available to pay for the program. If the program gets more money in a later year than it did in 1991, the Assistant Secretary may increase a tribal group’s grant. The increase should try to bring the grant closer to what the group got in 1980. If a group got no grant in 1980 or 1991, the Assistant Secretary may set an amount the official thinks is enough. For years 2006 and after, a tribe that was in a 1991 consortium and received a grant there is treated as having gotten the 1991 grant even if it later applies alone or with others.

Full Legal Text

Title 42, §3057e–1

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(a)Subject to the availability of appropriations to carry out this part, the amount of the grant (if any) made under this part to a tribal organization for fiscal year 1992 and for each subsequent fiscal year shall be not less than the amount of the grant made under this part to the tribal organization for fiscal year 1991.
(b)If the funds appropriated to carry out this part in a fiscal year subsequent to fiscal year 1991 exceed the funds appropriated to carry out this part in fiscal year 1991, then the amount of the grant (if any) made under this part to a tribal organization for the subsequent fiscal year shall be—
(1)increased by such amount as the Assistant Secretary considers to be appropriate, in addition to the amount of any increase required by subsection (a), so that the grant equals or more closely approaches the amount of the grant made under this part to the tribal organization for fiscal year 1980; or
(2)an amount the Assistant Secretary considers to be sufficient if the tribal organization did not receive a grant under this part for either fiscal year 1980 or fiscal year 1991.
(c)(1)In this subsection, the term “covered year” means fiscal year 2006 or a subsequent fiscal year.
(2)If a tribal organization received a grant under this part for fiscal year 1991 as part of a consortium, the Assistant Secretary shall consider the tribal organization to have received a grant under this part for fiscal year 1991 for purposes of subsections (a) and (b), and shall apply the provisions of subsections (a) and (b)(1) (under the conditions described in subsection (b)) to the tribal organization for each covered year for which the tribal organization submits an application under this part, even if the tribal organization submits—
(A)a separate application from the remaining members of the consortium; or
(B)an application as 1 of the remaining members of the consortium.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Amendments

2006—Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 109–365 added subsec. (c). 1993—Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 103–171 substituted “Assistant Secretary” for “Commissioner” in pars. (1) and (2).

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date

of 2006 Amendment Pub. L. 109–365, title VI, § 601(b), Oct. 17, 2006, 120 Stat. 2590, provided that: “The amendment made by subsection (a) [amending this section] shall apply to grants awarded under part A of title VI of the Older Americans Act of 1965 (42 U.S.C. 3057b et seq.) during the grant period beginning April 1, 2008, and all subsequent grant periods.”

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Citation

42 U.S.C. § 3057e–1

Title 42The Public Health and Welfare

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73