25 U.S.C. § 5394: Reports

Summary

Each year the Secretary must send a written report to the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs and the House Committee on Resources. The report is due by January 1 each year after August 18, 2000. It must use information from funding agreements, annual audits, and the Secretary’s records. The report must analyze the funded and unfunded needs of each tribe, show the costs and benefits of self‑governance, list funds tied to services for tribes, state how much money each self‑governance tribe got and any federal staff reductions, explain the formula for dividing headquarters funds (with tribes’ comments), and show last year’s spending on federal duties by type and place. The Secretary cannot make tribes fill out extra reports beyond what the law already requires. Before sending the report to Congress, the Secretary must give it to the tribes for at least 30 days so they can comment and must include their separate views. Also, within 180 days after August 18, 2000, and after talking with tribes, the Secretary must send a written report describing how individual tribal shares of Indian Health Service funds (including amounts assessed by other agencies) are calculated for compacts and funding agreements.

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(a)Annual report

(1)In general

Not later than January 1 of each year after August 18, 2000, the Secretary shall submit to the Committee on Indian Affairs of the Senate and the Committee on Resources of the House of Representatives a written report regarding the administration of this subchapter.

(2)Analysis

The report under paragraph (1) shall include a detailed analysis of the level of need being presently funded or unfunded for each Indian tribe, either directly by the Secretary, under self-determination contracts under subchapter I of this chapter, or under compacts and funding agreements authorized under this chapter. In compiling reports pursuant to this section, the Secretary may not impose any reporting requirements on participating Indian tribes or tribal organizations, not otherwise provided in this chapter.

(b)Contents

The report under subsection (a) of this section shall—

(1)be compiled from information contained in funding agreements, annual audit reports, and data of the Secretary regarding the disposition of Federal funds; and

(2)identify—

(A)the relative costs and benefits of self-governance;

(B)with particularity, all funds that are specifically or functionally related to the provision by the Secretary of services and benefits to self-governance Indian tribes and their members;

(C)the funds transferred to each self-governance Indian tribe and the corresponding reduction in the Federal bureaucracy;

(D)the funding formula for individual tribal shares of all headquarters funds, together with the comments of affected Indian tribes or tribal organizations, developed under subsection (c) of this section; and

(E)amounts expended in the preceding fiscal year to carry out inherent Federal functions, including an identification of those functions by type and location;

(3)contain a description of the method or methods (or any revisions thereof) used to determine the individual tribal share of funds controlled by all components of the Indian Health Service (including funds assessed by any other Federal agency) for inclusion in self-governance compacts or funding agreements;

(4)before being submitted to Congress, be distributed to the Indian tribes for comment (with a comment period of no less than 30 days, beginning on the date of distribution); and

(5)include the separate views and comments of the Indian tribes or tribal organizations.

(c)Report on fund distribution method

Not later than 180 days after August 18, 2000, the Secretary shall, after consultation with Indian tribes, submit a written report to the Committee on Resources of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Indian Affairs of the Senate that describes the method or methods used to determine the individual tribal share of funds controlled by all components of the Indian Health Service (including funds assessed by any other Federal agency) for inclusion in self-governance compacts or funding agreements.

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Editorial Notes

References in Text

Subchapter I of this chapter, referred to in subsec. (a)(2), was in the original “title I”, meaning title I of Pub. L. 93–638, known as the Indian Self-Determination Act, which is classified principally to subchapter I (§ 5321 et seq.) of this chapter. For complete classification of title I to the Code, see

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note set out under section 5301 of this title and Tables. This chapter, referred to in subsec. (a)(2), was in the original “this Act”, meaning Pub. L. 93–638, Jan. 4, 1975, 88 Stat. 2203, known as the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act, which is classified principally to this chapter. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see

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note set out under section 5301 of this title and Tables. Codification Section was formerly classified to section 458aaa–13 of this title prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.

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Change of Name

Committee on Resources of House of Representatives changed to Committee on Natural Resources of House of Representatives by House Resolution No. 6, One Hundred Tenth Congress, Jan. 5, 2007.

§5394 Reports

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