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U.S. GOVERNMENT
INFORMATION
Op
Calendar No. 567
115TH CONGRESS SEAEREPORT
2d Session JSENATE 1 115-335
AMENDING THE INDIAN SELF-DETERMINATION AND EDUCATION ASSIST-
ANCE ACT TO PROVIDE FURTHER SELF-GOVERNANCE BY INDIAN
TRIBES, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES
SEPTEMBER 5, 2018.-Ordered to be printed
Mr. HOEVEN, from the Committee on Indian Affairs,
submitted the following
REPORT
[To accompany S. 2515]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Indian Affairs, to which was referred the bill
(S. 2515) to amend the Indian Self-Determination and Education
Assistance Act to provide further self-governance by Indian tribes,
and for other purposes, having considered the same, reports favor-
ably thereon without amendment and recommends that the bill do
pass.
PURPOSE
The purpose of S. 2515 is to amend the Indian Self-Determina-
tion and Education Assistance Act of 1975 (Act) to streamline the
Department of the Interior's process for approving self-governance
compacts and annual funding agreements. The bill would align the
process used by the Department of the Interior to be similar to the
processes used by the Indian Health Service.
NEED FOR LEGISLATION
This legislation, S. 2515, is needed to correct the bureaucratic
processes and procedures that the Department of the Interior Self-
Governance program has imposed which have discouraged the fur-
ther compacting of Indian programs within the Department by In-
dian tribes or hindered negotiations between the Department and
Indian tribes for renewing compacts or annual funding agreements.
The provisions included in S. 2515 provide greater certainty and
more guidance from Congress on issues relating to decision-making
timeframes, re-assumption of programs by the Department, con-
struction projects, and timing of funding transfers.
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