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[CITE: 25USC1300d-24]

 
                            TITLE 25--INDIANS
 
                        CHAPTER 14--MISCELLANEOUS
 
SUBCHAPTER LXXV--MISSISSIPPI SIOUX TRIBES: DISTRIBUTION OF JUDGMENT FUND
 
                   Part B--1998 Distribution Authority
 
Sec. 1300d-24. Use of distributed funds


(a) Prohibition

    No funds allocated for a covered Indian tribe under section 1300d-23 
of this title may be used to make per capita payments to members of the 
covered Indian tribe.

(b) Purposes

    The funds allocated under section 1300d-23 of this title may be 
used, administered, and managed by a tribal governing body referred to 
in section 1300d-23(a)(2) of this title only for the purpose of making 
investments or expenditures that the tribal governing body determines to 
be reasonably related to--
        (1) economic development that is beneficial to the covered 
    Indian tribe;
        (2) the development of resources of the covered Indian tribe;
        (3) the development of programs that are beneficial to members 
    of the covered Indian tribe, including educational and social 
    welfare programs;
        (4) the payment of any existing obligation or debt (existing as 
    of the date of the distribution of the funds) arising out of any 
    activity referred to in paragraph (1), (2), or (3);
        (5)(A) the payment of attorneys' fees or expenses of any covered 
    Indian tribe referred to in subparagraph (A) or (C) of section 
    1300d-23(a)(2) of this title for litigation or other representation 
    for matters arising out of the enactment of part A of this 
    subchapter; except that
        (B) the amount of attorneys' fees paid by a covered Indian tribe 
    under this paragraph with funds distributed under section 1300d-23 
    of this title shall not exceed 10 percent of the amount distributed 
    to that Indian tribe under that section;
        (6) the payment of attorneys' fees or expenses of the covered 
    Indian tribe referred to in section 1300d-23(a)(2)(B) of this title 
    for litigation and other representation for matters arising out of 
    the enactment of part A of this subchapter, in accordance, as 
    applicable, with the contracts numbered A00C14203382 and 
    A00C14202991, that the Secretary approved on February 10, 1978 and 
    August 16, 1988, respectively; or
        (7) the payment of attorneys' fees or expenses of any covered 
    Indian tribe referred to in section 1300d-23(a)(2) of this title for 
    litigation or other representation with respect to matters arising 
    out of this part.

(c) Management

    Subject to subsections (a), (b), and (d) of this section, any funds 
distributed to a covered Indian tribe pursuant to sections 1300d-23 and 
1300d-26 of this title may be managed and invested by that Indian tribe 
pursuant to the American Indian Trust Fund Management Reform Act of 1994 
(25 U.S.C. 4001 et seq.).

(d) Withdrawal of funds by covered tribes

                           (1) In general

        Subject to paragraph (2), each covered Indian tribe may, at the 
    discretion of that Indian tribe, withdraw all or any portion of the 
    funds distributed to the Indian tribe under sections 1300d-23 and 
    1300d-26 of this title in accordance with the American Indian Trust 
    Fund Management Reform Act \1\ (25 U.S.C. 4001 et seq.).
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    \1\ So in original. Probably should be followed by ``of 1994''.
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                            (2) Exemption

        For purposes of paragraph (1), the requirements under 
    subsections (a) and (b) of section 202 of the American Indian Trust 
    Fund Management Reform Act \1\ (25 U.S.C. 4022(a) and (b)) and 
    section 203 of such Act (25 U.S.C. 4023) shall not apply to a 
    covered Indian tribe or the Secretary.

                      (3) Rule of construction

        Nothing in paragraph (2) may be construed to limit the 
    applicability of section 202(c) of the American Indian Trust Fund 
    Management Reform Act \1\ (25 U.S.C. 4022(c)).

(Pub. L. 105-387, Sec. 5, Nov. 13, 1998, 112 Stat. 3472.)

                       References in Text

    The American Indian Trust Fund Management Reform Act of 1994, 
referred to in subsecs. (c) and (d)(1), is Pub. L. 103-412, Oct. 25, 
1994, 108 Stat. 4239, as amended, which is classified principally to 
chapter 42 (Sec. 4001 et seq.) of this title. For complete 
classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out 
under section 4001 of this title and Tables.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 1300d-23 of this title.
