§302704 Contracts and Cooperative Agreements

Summary

If an Indian tribe with an approved preservation program asks to take over some preservation duties on tribal land under section 302702 and those duties are the ones listed in section 302304(b), the Secretary must make a contract or cooperative agreement with the tribe. The Secretary and the tribe must agree on any extra money the tribe needs to do the work. The Secretary must find that the tribe’s preservation program can handle the duties. The agreement must say what duties the Secretary or the State Historic Preservation Officers will still have and must allow proper participation by the tribe’s traditional cultural leaders, by representatives of other tribes that have traditional land under the tribe’s authority, and by the interested public.