25 U.S.C. § 1660g: Use of Federal Government…

Summary

The Secretary may let an urban Indian organization that has a contract or grant use federal buildings, equipment, and other government property to carry out the work, if they agree on how to use and care for it. The Secretary may also give or buy excess federal real or personal property for those organizations to use for the contract or grant. If both an urban Indian organization and an Indian tribe ask for the same item, the tribe gets priority if it asks before the Secretary transfers title or physically transfers the property. While doing the contract or grant, the urban Indian organization may be treated as an Executive agency for federal purposes.

Title 25, §1660g

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(a)In general

The Secretary may permit an urban Indian organization that has entered into a contract or received a grant pursuant to this subchapter, in carrying out the contract or grant, to use, in accordance with such terms and conditions for use and maintenance as are agreed on by the Secretary and the urban Indian organizations—

(1)any existing facility under the jurisdiction of the Secretary;

(2)all equipment contained in or pertaining to such an existing facility; and

(3)any other personal property of the Federal Government under the jurisdiction of the Secretary.

(b)Donations

Subject to subsection (d), the Secretary may donate to an urban Indian organization that has entered into a contract or received a grant pursuant to this subchapter any personal or real property determined to be excess to the needs of the Service or the General Services Administration for the purposes of carrying out the contract or grant.

(c)Acquisition of property

The Secretary may acquire excess or surplus personal or real property of the Federal Government for donation, subject to subsection (d), to an urban Indian organization that has entered into a contract or received a grant pursuant to this subchapter if the Secretary determines that the property is appropriate for use by the urban Indian organization for purposes of the contract or grant.

(d)Priority

If the Secretary receives from an urban Indian organization or an Indian tribe or tribal organization a request for a specific item of personal or real property described in subsection (b) or (c), the Secretary shall give priority to the request for donation to the Indian tribe or tribal organization, if the Secretary receives the request from the Indian tribe or tribal organization before the earlier of— (1)

(2)the date on which the Secretary transfers the property physically to the urban Indian organization.

(e)Executive agency status

For purposes of section 501(a) of title 40, an urban Indian organization that has entered into a contract or received a grant pursuant to this subchapter may be considered to be an Executive agency in carrying out the contract or grant.

Editorial Notes

Codification section 517 of Pub. L. 94–437 is based on section 166 of title I of S. 1790, One Hundred Eleventh Congress, as reported by the Committee on Indian Affairs of the Senate in Dec. 2009, which was enacted into law by section 10221(a) of Pub. L. 111–148.

§1660g Use of Federal Government Facilities and Sources of Supply

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Title 25, §1660g

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