§2006 — Title 25 Indians | U.S. Code

Summary

The Secretary gives the Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs the job of setting policy, rules, and supervising how the Bureau spends federal money for Indian education. The Assistant Secretary must do this work through the Director of the Office of Indian Education Programs. Within 180 days after January 8, 2002, the Director must take charge of people who directly run education services, including custodial and maintenance staff and those who handle contracts, buying, and school finances. The Assistant Secretary must move procurement, contract, operation, and maintenance duties to the Director within the same 180-day period. Education work done at the Area or Agency level by education line officers can be contracted out under the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act unless the Secretary says the work must stay federal. Staff under the Director must watch and evaluate Bureau education programs, handle staffing support, and give technical help on buying, contracts, budgets, personnel, curriculum, and school operations and maintenance. Each year the Assistant Secretary must include in the budget a plan for school construction under section 2005(c), a list of repair and improvement priorities to guide funding, and a 5-year capital plan. The Assistant Secretary must also set up an operation and maintenance program with ways to calculate needs, treat all Bureau-funded schools the same, tell education line officers and school officials about fund allocations, set project priorities after meetings with local school representatives, and require routine preventive maintenance. Local maintenance supervisors must carry out the education line officers’ decisions, and no chapter funds may be spent unless the line officer is sure maintenance will be provided. These steps must begin as soon as practicable after January 8, 2002. The Director must make rules for accepting gifts and bequests, monitor their use, and report gifts over $5,000 to Congress with details. For this law, “functions” means powers and duties.

Title 25, §2006

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(a)The Secretary shall vest in the Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs all functions with respect to formulation and establishment of policy and procedure and supervision of programs and expenditures of Federal funds for the purpose of Indian education administered by the Bureau. The Assistant Secretary shall carry out such functions through the Director of the Office of Indian Education Programs.

(b)(1)Not later than 180 days after January 8, 2002, the Director of the Office shall direct and supervise the operations of all personnel directly and substantially involved in the provision of education program services by the Bureau, including school or institution custodial or maintenance personnel, and personnel responsible for contracting, procurement, and finance functions connected with school operation programs.

(2)The Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs shall, not later than 180 days after January 8, 2002, coordinate the transfer of functions relating to procurements for, contracts of, operation of, and maintenance of schools and other support functions to the Director.

(c)For purposes of this Act, all functions relating to education that are located at the Area or Agency level and performed by an education line officer shall be subject to contract under the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act [25 U.S.C. 5301 et seq.], unless determined by the Secretary to be inherently Federal functions as defined in section 2021(12) of this title.

(d)Education personnel who are under the direction and supervision of the Director of the Office of Indian Education Programs in accordance with subsection (b)(1) shall—

(1)monitor and evaluate Bureau education programs;

(2)provide all services and support functions for education programs with respect to personnel matters involving staffing actions and functions; and

(3)provide technical and coordinating assistance in areas such as procurement, contracting, budgeting, personnel, curriculum, and operation and maintenance of school facilities.

(e)(1)The Assistant Secretary shall submit as part of the annual budget a plan—

(A)for school facilities to be constructed under section 2005(c) of this title;

(B)for establishing priorities among projects and for the improvement and repair of educational facilities, which together shall form the basis for the distribution of appropriated funds; and

(C)for capital improvements to be made over the 5 succeeding years.

(2)(A)The Assistant Secretary shall establish a program, including the distribution of appropriated funds, for the operation and maintenance of education facilities. Such program shall include—

(i)a method of computing the amount necessary for each educational facility;

(ii)similar treatment of all Bureau-funded schools;

(iii)a notice of an allocation of appropriated funds from the Director of the Office of Indian Education Programs directly to the education line officers and appropriate school officials;

(iv)a method for determining the need for, and priority of, facilities repair and maintenance projects, both major and minor (to be determined, through the conduct by the Assistant Secretary, of a series of meetings at the agency and area level with representatives of the Bureau-funded schools in those areas and agencies to receive comment on the lists and prioritization of such projects); and

(v)a system for the conduct of routine preventive maintenance.

(B)The appropriate education line officers shall make arrangements for the maintenance of education facilities with the local supervisors of the Bureau maintenance personnel. The local supervisors of Bureau maintenance personnel shall take appropriate action to implement the decisions made by the appropriate education line officers, except that no funds under this chapter may be authorized for expenditure unless such appropriate education line officer is assured that the necessary maintenance has been, or will be, provided in a reasonable manner.

(3)This subsection shall be implemented as soon as practicable after January 8, 2002.

(f)(1)Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Director of the Office shall promulgate guidelines for the establishment and administration of mechanisms for the acceptance of gifts and bequests for the use and benefit of particular schools or designated Bureau-operated education programs, including, in appropriate cases, the establishment and administration of trust funds.

(2)Except as provided in paragraph (3), in a case in which a Bureau-operated education program is the beneficiary of such a gift or bequest, the Director shall—

(A)make provisions for monitoring use of the gift or bequest; and

(B)submit a report to the appropriate committees of Congress that describes the amount and terms of such gift or bequest, the manner in which such gift or bequest shall be used, and any results achieved by such use.

(3)The requirements of paragraph (2) shall not apply in the case of a gift or bequest that is valued at $5,000 or less.

(g)For the purpose of this section, the term “functions” includes powers and duties.

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This Act, referred to in subsec. (c), means Pub. L. 95–561, Nov. 1, 1978, 92 Stat. 2143, known as the Education

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of 1978. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see

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of 1978 Amendment note set out under section 6301 of Title 20, Education, and Tables. The Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act, referred to in subsec. (c), is Pub. L. 93–638, Jan. 4, 1975, 88 Stat. 2203, which is classified principally to chapter 46 (§ 5301 et seq.) of this title. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see

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note set out under section 5301 of this title and Tables.

Prior Provisions

A prior section 2006, Pub. L. 95–561, title XI, § 1126, as added Pub. L. 103–382, title III, § 381, Oct. 20, 1994, 108 Stat. 3988, related to Bureau of Indian Affairs education functions, prior to the general amendment of this chapter by Pub. L. 107–110. Another prior section 2006, Pub. L. 95–561, title XI, § 1126, Nov. 1, 1978, 92 Stat. 2319; Pub. L. 96–46, § 2(b)(6), Aug. 6, 1979, 93 Stat. 341; Pub. L. 98–511, title V, § 504, Oct. 19, 1984, 98 Stat. 2393; Pub. L. 99–89, § 4, Aug. 15, 1985, 99 Stat. 381; Pub. L. 100–427, § 1(c)(3), Sept. 9, 1988, 102 Stat. 1603, related to Bureau of Indian Affairs education functions, prior to the general amendment of this chapter by Pub. L. 103–382.

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Section effective Jan. 8, 2002, except with respect to certain noncompetitive programs and competitive programs, see section 5 of Pub. L. 107–110, set out as a note under section 6301 of Title 20, Education.

§2006 Bureau of Indian Affairs Education Functions

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