Title 25, IndiansRelease 119-102

§165 Notice to Congressional Committees

Title 25 › CHAPTER 4 — PERFORMANCE BY UNITED STATES OF OBLIGATIONS TO INDIANS › SUBCHAPTER III — DEPOSIT, CARE, AND INVESTMENT OF INDIAN MONEYS › § 165

Last updated Aug 21, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Secretary must wait at least sixty calendar days after telling the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources and the House Committee on Natural Resources before returning funds to tribal ownership or putting them into the Treasury general fund under section 164. Days when either the Senate or the House is adjourned for more than three days to a day certain do not count, and the wait ends sooner if both committees have already told him they have no objection.

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Title 25, §165

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The Secretary shall not restore to tribal ownership or deposit in the general fund of the Treasury any funds pursuant to section 164 of this title and this section until sixty calendar days (exclusive of days on which either the Senate or the House of Representatives is not in session because of an adjournment of more than three days to a day certain) after he has submitted notice of his proposed action to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources of the Senate and the Committee on Natural Resources of the House of Representatives unless each of said committees has theretofore notified him that it has no objection to the proposed action.

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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. § 165

Title 25, Indians

Last Updated

Aug 21, 2026

Release point: 119-102