Title 25, IndiansRelease 119-102
§15 Utility Facilities Used in Administration of Bureau; Contracts for Sale, Operation, Maintenance, Repair or Relocation of Facilities; Terms and Conditions; Exception; Congressional Approval
Title 25 › CHAPTER 1 — BUREAU OF INDIAN AFFAIRS › § 15
Summary
The Secretary of the Interior may make contracts to sell, run, maintain, repair, or move federal utility systems and related parts used by the Bureau of Indian Affairs, except for electric systems that are part of irrigation projects. He must send the contract and his reasons to the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee and the House Natural Resources Committee and wait 60 days for review (not counting any recess longer than 3 days), unless a committee tells him earlier it has no objection.
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Title 25, §15
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Except for electric utility systems constructed and operated as a part of an irrigation system, the Secretary of the Interior is authorized to contract under such terms and conditions as he considers to be in the best interest of the Federal Government for the sale, operation, maintenance, repairs, or relocation of Government-owned utilities and utility systems and appurtenances used in the administration of the Bureau of Indian Affairs. The Secretary shall not execute a contract pursuant to this section until he has submitted to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources of the Senate and the Committee on Natural Resources of the House of Representatives a copy of the contract and a statement of his reasons for proposing the contract, and until such materials have lain before the Committees for sixty days (excluding the time during which either House is in recess for more than three days) unless prior thereto the Secretary is notified that neither committee has any objection to the proposed contract.
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1994—Pub. L. 103–437 substituted “Committee on Energy and Natural Resources of the Senate and the Committee on Natural Resources of the House of Representatives” for “Committees on Interior and Insular Affairs of the Senate and the House of Representatives”.
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25 U.S.C. § 15
Title 25, Indians
Last Updated
Aug 21, 2026
Release point: 119-102