Title 25 — IndiansRelease 119-73not60
§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
Summary
Before returning funds to tribes or putting them in the Treasury, the Secretary must notify the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee and the House Natural Resources Committee, then wait 60 calendar days (excluding breaks over three days) unless both committees say 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
Apr 5, 2026
Release point: 119-73not60