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[CITE: 25USC1680n]

 
                            TITLE 25--INDIANS
 
                     CHAPTER 18--INDIAN HEALTH CARE
 
                      SUBCHAPTER VI--MISCELLANEOUS
 
Sec. 1680n. Priority for Indian reservations


(a) Facilities and projects

    Beginning on October 29, 1992, the Bureau of Indian Affairs and the 
Service shall, in all matters involving the reorganization or 
development of Service facilities, or in the establishment of related 
employment projects to address unemployment conditions in economically 
depressed areas, give priority to locating such facilities and projects 
on Indian lands if requested by the Indian tribe with jurisdiction over 
such lands.

(b) ``Indian lands'' defined

    For purposes of this section, the term ``Indian lands'' means--
        (1) all lands within the limits of any Indian reservation; and
        (2) any lands title which is held in trust by the United States 
    for the benefit of any Indian tribe or individual Indian, or held by 
    any Indian tribe or individual Indian subject to restriction by the 
    United States against alienation and over which an Indian tribe 
    exercises governmental power.

(Pub. L. 94-437, title VIII, Sec. 824, as added Pub. L. 102-573, title 
VIII, Sec. 812, Oct. 29, 1992, 106 Stat. 4589.)
