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RCED-95-57R 1 (1994-11-30)

handle is hein.gao/gaobackry0001 and id is 1 raw text is: GAO United States General Accounting Office Washington, D.C. 20548 Resources, Community, and Economic Development Division B-259030 November 30, 1994 Congressional Recipients Currently, state agencies provide Food Stamp Program benefits to households on Indian reservations. An Indian tribal organization may administer the program on its reservation if it demonstrates that (1) it is capable of administering the program and (2) the state agency is ineffective in providing program benefits. To date, no tribal organizations have exercised this option. Public Law 103-225 (sec. 103) requires GAO to study the feasibility and desirability of modifying or eliminating existing conditions for tribal organizations to administer the Food Stamp Program on their reservations. As subsequently agreed with your offices, this correspondence provides information on (1) the degree of interest that Indian tribal organizations have in administering the program, (2) the barriers that would prevent these organizations from administering the program, and (3) the cost and other implications that would arise from tribal administration of the program. There are about 320 federally recognized Indian tribes in the continental United States. Much of the information we gathered on these issues summarizes the views of officials from 40 tribes in seven western states. These tribes represent nearly 50 percent of the Indian population in the Bureau of Indian Affairs service areas. In summary, we found the following: -- Tribal officials generally were unfamiliar with the federal regulations governing the administration of the Food Stamp Program and indicated little interest prior to our inquiry in administering the program on their reservations. Because they were unfamiliar with the operation and administration of the program and had not given much previous thought to administering it, these officials were unable to do more than express an interest in having their tribes explore the advantages GAOIRCED-95-57R, Indian Food Stamp Proposal

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