Title 25, IndiansRelease 119-102
§5326 Indian Health Service: Availability of Funds for Indian Self-determination or Self-governance Contract or Grant Support Costs
Title 25 › CHAPTER 46 — INDIAN SELF-DETERMINATION AND EDUCATION ASSISTANCE › SUBCHAPTER I — INDIAN SELF-DETERMINATION › § 5326
Summary
Before, on, and after October 21, 1998, IHS funds for self-determination/self-governance can only pay costs directly tied to contracts, grants, or compacts under the Act. They may not pay support or indirect costs for tribal agreements with non‑IHS entities.
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Title 25, §5326
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Before, on, and after October 21, 1998, and notwithstanding any other provision of law, funds available to the Indian Health Service in this Act or any other Act for Indian self-determination or self-governance contract or grant support costs may be expended only for costs directly attributable to contracts, grants and compacts pursuant to the Indian Self-Determination Act [25 U.S.C. 5321 et seq.] and no funds appropriated by this or any other Act shall be available for any contract support costs or indirect costs associated with any contract, grant, cooperative agreement, self-governance compact, or funding agreement entered into between an Indian tribe or tribal organization and any entity other than the Indian Health Service.
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The Indian Self-Determination Act, referred to in text, is title I of Pub. L. 93–638, Jan. 4, 1975, 88 Stat. 2206, which is classified principally to this subchapter (§ 5321 et seq.). For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see
Short Title
note set out under section 5301 of this title and Tables. Codification Section was enacted as part of the Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1999, and also as part of the Omnibus Consolidated and Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act, 1999, and not as part of the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act which comprises this chapter. Section was formerly classified to section 450j–2 of this title prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.
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25 U.S.C. § 5326
Title 25, Indians
Last Updated
Aug 21, 2026
Release point: 119-102