§3733 Cooperative Agreement Between Department of the Interior and Indian Tribes

Summary

The Secretary of the Interior can make cooperative agreements with Indian tribes to help run Interior programs. These agreements can fund or support job training, create agricultural education and resource planning materials, and pay for land or facility improvements and other natural resource work. The Secretary may make these agreements when they will benefit Indians or tribes. The Secretary can advance or repay money to contractors or provide materials, supplies, facilities, or equipment for the work, even if usual rules about advancing public money would otherwise apply. Tribes and their workers may do the agreed work under Interior supervision in emergencies or when both sides agree. They are not Federal employees except for the limited purposes listed in title 28, sections 2671–2680, and title 5, sections 8101–8193. This does not stop the Secretary from entering other cooperative agreements allowed by law.