§3410 Federal Responsibilities

Summary

The Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) is in charge of running the programs in this chapter. The BIA Director must make one standard report form for each tribe, work with the federal agency heads that run the included programs, and give tribes voluntary and technical help. The Director must set up one monitoring system, take in all funds covered by an approved tribal plan, and send each tribe its share within 45 days after the money arrives from the federal department or agency. The Director must also carry out tasks about agency waivers under section 3406 and create a process to resolve disputes between agencies. Within 1 year after December 18, 2017, the Secretary (through the BIA Director) and the Secretaries of Agriculture, Commerce, Education, Energy, Health and Human Services, Homeland Security, Housing and Urban Development, Labor, Transportation, Veterans Affairs, and the Attorney General must sign an agreement to implement the chapter. That agreement must provide an annual meeting co‑chaired by a President’s representative and a tribal representative, an annual review that reports the number and percentage of program participants in unsubsidized employment during the second quarter after exit and any obstacles, and a forum to resolve interagency and federal‑tribal conflicts. The BIA must give tribes a single report format that shows compliance, the employment metric above, and confirms compliance with statutory and regulatory requirements not waived under section 3406. The report must not force tribes to report spending by original funding source or agency code, only a single consolidated expenditure report.