§3305 Allocation of Grant Funds

Summary

The Secretary must keep using the same method from fiscal year 1991 to decide how much program money each grantee gets for tribally‑ and Bureau‑administered grants to individual Indians for postsecondary expenses. A grantee that chose the option in section 3304(a) to run the program under a grant must get extra money for administrative costs based on the method it used in the prior contract period. All other grantees must get administrative money under the Indian Self Determination and Education Assistance Act regulations (Public Law 93–638; 25 U.S.C. 5301 et seq.) as they are when the grantee applies. Each grantee gets only one grant per fiscal year, and must keep that grant in a separate account. Grant money must be used to give need‑based awards to individual Indian students for any postsecondary attendance costs, as set under the tribal contracts under the Indian Self Determination and Education Assistance Act, but only to the extent those costs are not paid from other sources or cannot be defrayed by any State, Federal, or municipal Act. Grant funds may also pay program administration costs, but not more than the administrative amount determined under subsection (a)(2). Nothing here requires giving priority to any resource.