25 U.S.C. § 161c — Surplus above requirements of fund; transfer to surplus fund of Treasury; retransfer

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If the Secretary decides tribal fund money isn't needed anymore, it goes to the Treasury's surplus fund. Later, if the money turns out to be needed after all, it can go back into the account. Restoring the money doesn't require a new act of Congress.

This section covers extra money sitting in tribal fund accounts. If the Secretary of the Interior judges that the amount held in a tribal fund account is not required for the purpose the fund was created for, that amount is covered into the surplus fund of the Treasury. But this isn't necessarily permanent. If it is later found that some or all of that money is necessary for the original purpose, it may at any time afterward be restored to the account on the books of the Treasury. Congress does not need to pass a new appropriation to restore it.

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The amount held in any tribal fund account which, in the judgment of the Secretary of the Interior, is not required for the purpose for which the fund was created, shall be covered into the surplus fund of the Treasury; and so much thereof as is found to be necessary for such purpose may at any time thereafter be restored to the account on books of the Treasury without appropriation by Congress.

Source credit: (Feb. 12, 1929, ch. 178, § 3, as added June 13, 1930, ch. 483, 46 Stat. 584.)

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1929Enacted · Act of Feb. 12, 1929, ch. 178 · 46 Stat. 584

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