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[CITE: 25USC15]

 
                            TITLE 25--INDIANS
 
                   CHAPTER 1--BUREAU OF INDIAN AFFAIRS
 
Sec. 15. Utility facilities used in administration of Bureau; 
        contracts for sale, operation, maintenance, repair or relocation 
        of facilities; terms and conditions; exception; Congressional 
        approval
        
    Except for electric utility systems constructed and operated as a 
part of an irrigation system, the Secretary of the Interior is 
authorized to contract under such terms and conditions as he considers 
to be in the best interest of the Federal Government for the sale, 
operation, maintenance, repairs, or relocation of Government-owned 
utilities and utility systems and appurtenances used in the 
administration of the Bureau of Indian Affairs. The Secretary shall not 
execute a contract pursuant to this section until he has submitted to 
the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources of the Senate and the 
Committee on Natural Resources of the House of Representatives a copy of 
the contract and a statement of his reasons for proposing the contract, 
and until such materials have lain before the Committees for sixty days 
(excluding the time during which either House is in recess for more than 
three days) unless prior thereto the Secretary is notified that neither 
committee has any objection to the proposed contract.

(Pub. L. 87-279, Sept. 22, 1961, 75 Stat. 577; Pub. L. 103-437, 
Sec. 10(a), Nov. 2, 1994, 108 Stat. 4588.)


                               Amendments

    1994--Pub. L. 103-437 substituted ``Committee on Energy and Natural 
Resources of the Senate and the Committee on Natural Resources of the 
House of Representatives'' for ``Committees on Interior and Insular 
Affairs of the Senate and the House of Representatives''.

                         Change of Name

    Committee on Natural Resources of House of Representatives treated 
as referring to Committee on Resources of House of Representatives by 
section 1(a) of Pub. L. 104-14, set out as a note preceding section 21 
of Title 2, The Congress.
