25 U.S.C. § 3733 — Cooperative agreement between Department of the Interior and Indian tribes
submitted 33 years ago by Pub. L. 103-177 to r/title-25-INDIANS · 240 words · no verdicts yet
This section allows Interior and Indian tribes to make cooperative agreements for training, education, planning, and land and resource work. It addresses supervision and preserves other legal authority.
(a)(1)(A) The Secretary* may make agreements with tribes for cooperative workforce/job training, agricultural education and resource-planning materials, land and facility improvements, and other land and natural-resource management and development. (B) The Secretary may do so when Indians and tribes will benefit. (2) The Secretary may advance or reimburse contractors with available appropriations or share materials, supplies, facilities, and equipment without title 31 section 3324’s public-money-advance rules. (b) Tribes and employees may perform agreed or emergency cooperative work under Interior supervision, but are not Federal employees except for title 28 sections 2671–2680 and title 5 sections 8101–8193. (c) Nothing in this chapter limits other lawful cooperative-agreement authority.
To facilitate the administration of the programs and activities of the Department of the Interior, the Secretary* may negotiate and enter into cooperative agreements with Indian* tribes to—
engage in cooperative manpower and job training,
develop and publish cooperative agricultural education and resource planning materials, and
perform land and facility improvements and other activities related to land and natural resource management and development.
The Secretary may enter into these agreements when the Secretary determines the interest of Indians and Indian tribes will be benefited.
In cooperative agreements entered into under paragraph (1), the Secretary may advance or reimburse funds to contractors from any appropriated funds available for similar kinds of work or by furnishing or sharing materials, supplies, facilities, or equipment without regard to the provisions of section 3324 of title 31 relating to the advance of public moneys.
In any agreement authorized by this section, Indian tribes and their employees may perform cooperative work under the supervision of the Department of the Interior in emergencies or otherwise as mutually agreed to, but shall not be deemed to be Federal employees other than for the purposes of sections 2671 through 2680 of title 28 and sections 8101 through 8193 of title 5.
Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to limit the authority of the Secretary to enter into cooperative agreements otherwise authorized by law.
Source credit: (Pub. L. 103–177, title II, § 203, Dec. 3, 1993, 107 Stat. 2021.)
- 1993Enacted · Pub. L. 103-177 · 107 Stat. 2021
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