Title 25, IndiansRelease 119-110

§4239 Performance Reports

Title 25 › CHAPTER 43 — NATIVE AMERICAN HOUSING ASSISTANCE AND SELF-DETERMINATION › SUBCHAPTER VIII — HOUSING ASSISTANCE FOR NATIVE HAWAIIANS › § 4239

Last updated Sep 22, 2026|Official source

Summary

Each fiscal year the Director must review how the Department carried out the housing plan filed under section 4223 and send a report in a form the Secretary accepts. The report must say how grant money for the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands was used, how that use matched the plan’s goals, what the program achieved, and how the Department would change the plan based on what it learned. The Secretary must set a due date, review each report, and give any recommendations needed to carry out the subchapter. Before sending the report, the Director must make it available to beneficiaries of the Hawaiian Homes Commission Act, 1920 (42 Stat. 108 et seq.) and give them time to comment. The report must include a summary of any comments received.

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Title 25, §4239

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(a)Requirement
For each fiscal year, the Director shall—
(1)review the progress the Department has made during that fiscal year in carrying out the housing plan submitted by the Department under section 4223 of this title; and
(2)submit a report to the Secretary (in a form acceptable to the Secretary) describing the conclusions of the review.
(b)Content
Each report submitted under this section for a fiscal year shall—
(1)describe the use of grant amounts provided to the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands for that fiscal year;
(2)assess the relationship of the use referred to in paragraph (1) to the goals identified in the housing plan;
(3)indicate the programmatic accomplishments of the Department; and
(4)describe the manner in which the Department would change its housing plan submitted under section 4223 of this title as a result of its experiences.
(c)Submissions
The Secretary shall—
(1)establish a date for submission of each report under this section;
(2)review each such report; and
(3)with respect to each such report, make recommendations as the Secretary considers appropriate to carry out the purposes of this subchapter.
(d)Public availability
(1)Comments by beneficiaries
In preparing a report under this section, the Director shall make the report publicly available to the beneficiaries of the Hawaiian Homes Commission Act, 1920 (42 Stat. 108 et seq.) and give a sufficient amount of time to permit those beneficiaries to comment on that report before it is submitted to the Secretary (in such manner and at such time as the Director may determine).
(2)Summary of comments
The report shall include a summary of any comments received by the Director from beneficiaries under paragraph (1) regarding the program to carry out the housing plan.

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The Hawaiian Homes Commission Act, 1920, referred to in subsec. (d)(1), is act July 9, 1921, ch. 42, 42 Stat. 108, which was classified generally to sections 691 to 718 of Title 48, Territories and Insular Possessions, and was omitted from the Code. Codification Pub. L. 106–568, § 203, and Pub. L. 106–569, § 513, enacted identical section 820 of Pub. L. 104–330. This section is based on the text of section 820 of Pub. L. 104–330, as added by Pub. L. 106–569, § 513.

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25 U.S.C. § 4239

Title 25, Indians

Last Updated

Sep 22, 2026

Release point: 119-110