§2507 Application with Respect to Indian Self-determination and Education Assistance Act

Summary

Make key rules from the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act apply to grants made under this chapter. Thirteen specific provisions will apply, covering things like single-agency audits, criminal penalties, wage and labor standards, federal employee coverage, use of federal property and supplies, leases, limits on costs, allowable uses of funds, records and monitoring, reassumption, and protection of tribal sovereign immunity. Contractors with contracts in effect on January 8, 2002 can tell the Secretary they want a grant instead. That choice starts on the first day of July after the notice. If that July is less than 60 days after the notice, the change waits until the first day of July of the next year. No contract money can pay for expenses already covered by a grant. A tribe that takes over a Bureau or contract school with a grant can get the same buildings, equipment, supplies, and carryover funds as if it had a contract, and can seek facility improvement funds the same as a Bureau school. Audit problems and grant disputes are handled like contract disputes under the Indian Self-Determination Act, and the Equal Access to Justice Act applies to administrative appeals filed after September 8, 1988.