§5394 Reports

Summary

The Secretary must send a written report to the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs and the House Committee on Resources by January 1 each year after August 18, 2000. The report must give a detailed look at what needs each Indian tribe has that are being funded or not funded. It must cover services paid for directly by the Secretary, services paid under self-determination contracts, and services paid under compacts and funding agreements. The Secretary may not make tribes fill out extra reports beyond what this law already requires. The report must be put together from funding agreements, annual audits, and the Secretary’s data on federal money. It must show the costs and benefits of self-governance, list funds tied to services for self-governance tribes and their members, show money moved to each tribe and any reduction in Federal bureaucracy, explain the formula for each tribe’s share of headquarters funds (with tribes’ comments), and list amounts spent last fiscal year on inherent Federal functions by type and place. It must explain how tribal shares of Indian Health Service funds (including amounts assessed by other agencies) are calculated. Before sending the report to Congress, the Secretary must give it to the tribes for at least 30 days for comment and must include the tribes’ separate views. Also, within 180 days after August 18, 2000, the Secretary must file, after consulting tribes, a written report to those same committees describing the methods used to determine each tribe’s Indian Health Service share.