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§1680n Priority for Indian Reservations

Title 25 › Chapter 18— INDIAN HEALTH CARE › Subchapter VI— MISCELLANEOUS › § 1680n

Last updated Apr 5, 2026|Official source

Summary

Starting October 29, 1992, the Bureau of Indian Affairs and the Service must give priority to placing or changing Service facilities, or to creating related job projects to fight unemployment in poor areas, on Indian lands when the Indian tribe that has authority over those lands asks. "Indian lands" means lands inside any Indian reservation, and lands the United States holds in trust for a tribe or individual Indian, or lands owned by a tribe or individual that are legally restricted from being sold and where the tribe exercises government power.

Full Legal Text

Title 25, §1680n

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(a)Beginning on October 29, 1992, the Bureau of Indian Affairs and the Service shall, in all matters involving the reorganization or development of Service facilities, or in the establishment of related employment projects to address unemployment conditions in economically depressed areas, give priority to locating such facilities and projects on Indian lands if requested by the Indian tribe with jurisdiction over such lands.

(b)For purposes of this section, the term “Indian lands” means—

(1)all lands within the limits of any Indian reservation; and

(2)any lands title which is held in trust by the United States for the benefit of any Indian tribe or individual Indian, or held by any Indian tribe or individual Indian subject to restriction by the United States against alienation and over which an Indian tribe exercises governmental power.

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Citation

25 U.S.C. § 1680n

Title 25 — Indians

Last Updated

Apr 5, 2026

Release point: 119-73not60