§1813 — Title 25 Indians | U.S. Code

Summary

The Secretary must give grants for new construction at tribally controlled colleges and universities when a need is found, if money is made available and the school applies under rules the Secretary sets. To get a grant, a school must already be getting certain federal grants and must be accredited or expected to become accredited within 18 months. If accreditation is waived, the grant can only pay for planning and building proposals. Grants can pay up to 80 percent of construction costs, and no school has to pay more than $400,000 of the remaining 20 percent. Schools may use funds from section 13 to meet their share. The Secretary can waive the school’s share if the school and tribe lack money, based only on factors like tribal population, likely student numbers, tribal unemployment, tribal finances, and other claimed resource factors (such as education levels). The building must serve as a public or nonprofit academic facility for 20 years unless the Secretary allows otherwise, and the tribe must use it for an approved public purpose. Grant money cannot fund places of worship, sectarian activities, or divinity schools. Definitions: “construction” — building, rebuilding, or renovating facilities. “Academic facilities” — buildings used for teaching and related academic services.

Title 25, §1813

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(a)With respect to any tribally controlled college or university for which the report of the Secretary under section 1812(a) of this title identifies a need for new construction, the Secretary shall, subject to appropriations and on the basis of an application submitted in accordance with such requirements as the Secretary may prescribe by regulation, provide grants for such construction in accordance with this section.

(b)In order to be eligible for a grant under this section, a tribally controlled college or university—

(1)must be a current recipient of grants under section 1805 or 1807 of this title, and

(2)must be accredited by a nationally recognized accrediting agency listed by the Secretary of Education pursuant to the last sentence of section 1001 of title 20, except that such requirement may be waived if the Secretary determines that there is a reasonable expectation that such college or university will be fully accredited within eighteen months. In any case where such a waiver is granted, grants under this section shall be available only for planning and development of proposals for construction.

(c)(1)Except as provided in paragraph (2), grants for construction under this section shall not exceed 80 per centum of the cost of such construction, except that no tribally controlled college or university shall be required to expend more than $400,000 in fulfillment of the remaining 20 per centum. For the purpose of providing its required portion of the cost of such construction, a tribally controlled college or university may use funds provided under section 13 of this title.

(2)The Secretary may waive, in whole or in part, the requirements of paragraph (1) in the case of any tribally controlled college or university which demonstrates that neither such college or university nor the tribal government with which it is affiliated have sufficient resources to comply with such requirements. The Secretary shall base a decision on whether to grant such a waiver solely on the basis of the following factors: (A) tribal population; (B) potential student population; (C) the rate of unemployment among tribal members; (D) tribal financial resources; and (E) other factors alleged by the college or university to have a bearing on the availability of resources for compliance with the requirements of paragraph (1) and which may include the educational attainment of tribal members.

(d)If, within twenty years after completion of construction of a facility which has been constructed in whole or in part with a grant made available under this section—

(1)the facility ceases to be used by the applicant in a public or nonprofit capacity as an academic facility, unless the Secretary determines that there is good cause for releasing the institution from this obligation, and

(2)the tribe with which the applicant is affiliated fails to use the facility for a public purpose approved by the tribal government in furtherance of the general welfare of the community served by the tribal government,

(e)No construction assisted with funds under this section shall be used for religious worship or a sectarian activity or for a school or department of divinity.

(f)For the purposes of this section—

(1)the term “construction” includes reconstruction or renovation (as such terms are defined in the first sentence of subparagraph (B) of section 1132e–1(2) 11 See References in Text note below. of title 20); and

(2)the term “academic facilities” has the meaning provided such term under section 1132e–1(1) 1 of title 20.

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Section 1132e–1 of title 20, referred to in subsec. (f), was omitted in the general revision of subchapter VII (§ 1132a et seq.) of chapter 28 of Title 20, Education, by Pub. L. 99–498, title VII, § 701, Oct. 17, 1986, 100 Stat. 1520.

Amendments

1998—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 105–244, § 901(b)(5), substituted “college or university” for “community college”. Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 105–244, § 901(b)(5), substituted “college or university” for “community college” in introductory provisions. Subsec. (b)(2). Pub. L. 105–244, §§ 102(a)(8)(C), 901(b)(7), substituted “section 1001” for “section 1141(a)” and “such college or university” for “such college”. Subsec. (c)(1). Pub. L. 105–244, § 901(b)(5), substituted “college or university” for “community college” in two places. Subsec. (c)(2). Pub. L. 105–244, § 901(b)(5), (7), (12), in introductory provisions, substituted “controlled college or university” for “controlled community college” and “such college or university” for “such college” and, in subpar. (E), substituted “the college or university” for “the college”. 1986—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 99–428 substituted “Secretary under” for “Administrator of General Services under”. 1983—Pub. L. 98–192 amended section generally, substituting provision authorizing grants for

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of new facilities, establishing eligibility requirements for grants, maximum amounts of grants, waiver of amount restriction, results of failure to use facilities in an approved manner, and prohibition of religious use of such facilities, and defining “

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” and “academic facilities” for provision requiring Secretary of the Interior to conduct a detailed survey and study of academic facilities needs of tribally controlled community colleges and report to Congress not later than Nov. 1, 1979, the results of such survey and study.

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Effective Date

of 1998 AmendmentAmendment by Pub. L. 105–244 effective Oct. 1, 1998, except as otherwise provided in Pub. L. 105–244, see section 3 of Pub. L. 105–244, set out as a note under section 1001 of Title 20, Education.

§1813 Construction of New Facilities

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Title 25, §1813

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