§3404 — Title 25 Indians | U.S. Code

Summary

Allows the Secretary, working with the Attorney General and the Secretaries of Agriculture, Commerce, Education, Energy, Health and Human Services, Homeland Security, Housing and Urban Development, Labor, Transportation, and Veterans Affairs, to let an Indian tribe or tribal organization combine and run certain federal job and training programs as one coordinated program after the Secretary approves the tribe’s plan. Only programs that focus on work and jobs may be combined. That includes 10 kinds of programs, such as job training, welfare-to-work, creating jobs, skills building, helping youth and adults enter the workforce, encouraging self-sufficiency, and related services. Programs count if the tribe or tribal members get money by formula, because of their Indian status, or by a noncompetitive award or specific designation. Block grant funds given to a tribe are also allowed, no matter whether the grant is tied to the tribe’s status or the people it serves.

Title 25, §3404

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(a)(1)The programs that may be integrated pursuant to a plan approved under section 3407 of this title shall be only programs—

(A)implemented for the purpose of—

(i)job training;

(ii)welfare to work and tribal work experience;

(iii)creating or enhancing employment opportunities;

(iv)skill development;

(v)assisting Indian youth and adults to succeed in the workforce;

(vi)encouraging self-sufficiency;

(vii)familiarizing individual participants with the world of work;

(viii)facilitating the creation of job opportunities;

(ix)economic development; or

(x)any services related to the activities described in clauses (i) through (x); and

(B)under which an Indian tribe or members of an Indian tribe—

(i)are eligible to receive funds—

(I)under a statutory or administrative formula making funds available to an Indian tribe; or

(II)based solely or in part on their status as Indians under Federal law; or

(ii)have secured funds as a result of a noncompetitive process or a specific designation.

(2)For purposes of this section, programs funded by block grant funds provided to an Indian tribe, regardless of whether the block grant is for the benefit of the Indian tribe because of the status of the Indian tribe or the status of the beneficiaries the grant serves, shall be eligible to be integrated into the plan.

(b)The Secretary shall, in cooperation with the Attorney General, the Secretary of Agriculture, the Secretary of Commerce, the Secretary of Education, the Secretary of Energy, the Secretary of Health and Human Services, the Secretary of Homeland Security, the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, the Secretary of Labor, the Secretary of Transportation, and the Secretary of Veterans Affairs, after the Secretary approves a plan submitted by an Indian tribe or tribal organization under section 3407 of this title, authorize the Indian tribe or tribal organization, as applicable, to coordinate, in accordance with the plan, federally funded employment, training, and related services programs and funding in a manner that integrates the programs and funding into a consolidated and comprehensive program.

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Amendments

2017—Pub. L. 115–93 amended section generally. Prior to amendment, text read as follows: “The programs that may be integrated in a demonstration project under any such plan referred to in section 3403 of this title shall include any program under which an Indian tribe is eligible for receipt of funds under a statutory or administrative formula for the purposes of assisting Indian youth and adults to succeed in the workforce, encouraging self-sufficiency, familiarizing Indian Youth and adults with the world of work, facilitating the creation of job opportunities and any services related to these activities.” 2000—Pub. L. 106–568 substituted “assisting Indian youth and adults to succeed in the workforce, encouraging self-sufficiency, familiarizing Indian Youth and adults with the world of work, facilitating the creation of job opportunities and any services related to these activities” for “job training, tribal work experience, employment opportunities, or skill development, or any program designed for the enhancement of job opportunities or employment training”.

§3404 Programs Affected

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Title 25, §3404

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