§3307 Administrative Provisions

Summary

Grant applications and any changes to them must be reviewed and approved by staff who work under the Director of the Office of Indian Education Programs. Required reports must go to education staff under that same Director. Sections 5, 6, 7, 105, 109, and 110 of the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act apply to these grants, except the rules about indirect costs and contract length. The Secretary can make rules only for duties the law gives the Secretary. For other grant details, the Secretary must not make rules. Any rules made this way do not count as a federal law for court review. If a tribe asks to take back (retrocede) a program, the retrocession must start on a date the Secretary sets no more than 120 days after the request, unless both agree to a later date. After retrocession, the Secretary must keep providing at least the same services at the same funding level to tribes served by the program. The tribe asking must say whether the program will be run under a tribal contract under the Indian Self-Determination Act or as a Bureau-run program. The "Secretary" means the Secretary of the Interior. "Indian" and "Indian tribe" mean what those words mean in sections 4(d) and 4(e) of the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act.