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§3057f Surplus Educational Facilities

Title 42 › CHAPTER 35 — PROGRAMS FOR OLDER AMERICANS › SUBCHAPTER X — GRANTS FOR NATIVE AMERICANS › Part A — Indian Program › § 3057f

Last updated Sep 22, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Secretary of the Interior, through the Bureau of Indian Affairs, must make surplus Indian educational facilities available to tribal organizations and to nonprofit groups that have tribal approval to use as multipurpose senior centers. Those centers can be changed to provide things like extended care, community center space, nutrition services, child care, and other supportive services. Any eligible tribal organization that wants to use a surplus facility must apply to the Secretary of the Interior at the time, in the way, and with the information the Secretary requires.

Full Legal Text

Title 42, §3057f

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(a)Multipurpose senior centers
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Secretary of the Interior through the Bureau of Indian Affairs shall make available surplus Indian educational facilities to tribal organizations, and nonprofit organizations with tribal approval, for use as multipurpose senior centers. Such centers may be altered so as to provide extended care facilities, community center facilities, nutrition services, child care services, and other supportive services.
(b)Applications; submission; contents
Each eligible tribal organization desiring to take advantage of such surplus facilities shall submit an application to the Secretary of the Interior at such time and in such manner, and containing or accompanied by such information, as the Secretary of the Interior determines to be necessary to carry out the provisions of this section.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Prior Provisions

A prior section 3057f, Pub. L. 89–73, title VI, § 607, as added Pub. L. 95–478, title I, § 106, Oct. 18, 1978, 92 Stat. 1551, related to payments, prior to the general amendment of this subchapter by Pub. L. 100–175. See section 3057m of this title.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date

Section effective Oct. 1, 1987, except not applicable with respect to any area plan submitted under section 3026(a) of this title or any State plan submitted under section 3027(a) of this title and approved for any fiscal year beginning before Nov. 29, 1987, see section 701(a), (b) of Pub. L. 100–175, set out as an

Effective Date

of 1987 Amendment note under section 3001 of this title.

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Citation

42 U.S.C. § 3057f

Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare

Last Updated

Sep 22, 2026

Release point: 119-110