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[CITE: 25USC3503]

 
                            TITLE 25--INDIANS
 
                   CHAPTER 37--INDIAN ENERGY RESOURCES
 
Sec. 3503. Promoting energy resource development and energy 
        vertical integration on Indian reservations
        

(a) Demonstration programs

    The Secretary of Energy, in consultation with the Secretary of the 
Interior, shall establish and implement a demonstration program to 
assist Indian tribes in pursuing energy self-sufficiency and to promote 
the development of a vertically integrated energy industry on Indian 
reservations, in order to increase development of the substantial energy 
resources located on such Indian reservations. Such program shall 
include, but not be limited to, the following components:
        (1) The Secretary shall provide development grants to Indian 
    tribes or to joint ventures which are 51 percent or more controlled 
    by an Indian tribe to assist Indian tribes in obtaining the 
    managerial and technical capability needed to develop the energy 
    resources on Indian reservations. Such grants shall include 
    provisions for management training for tribal or village members, 
    improving the technical capacity of the Indian tribe, and the 
    reduction of tribal unemployment. Each grant shall be for a period 
    of 3 years.
        (2) The Secretary shall provide grants, not to exceed 50 percent 
    of the project costs, for vertical integration projects. For 
    purposes of this paragraph, the term ``vertical integration 
    project'' means a project that promotes the vertical integration of 
    the energy resources on an Indian reservation, so that the energy 
    resources are used or processed on such Indian reservation. Such 
    term includes, but is not limited to, projects involving solar and 
    wind energy, oil refineries, the generation and transmission of 
    electricity, hydroelectricity, cogeneration, natural gas 
    distribution, and clean, innovative uses of coal.
        (3) The Secretary shall provide technical assistance (and such 
    other assistance as is appropriate) to Indian tribes for energy 
    resource development and to promote the vertical integration of 
    energy resources on Indian reservations.

(b) Low interest loans

                           (1) In general

        The Secretary shall establish a program for making low interest 
    loans to Indian tribes. Such loans shall be used exclusively by 
    Indian tribes in the promotion of energy resource development and 
    vertical integration on Indian reservations.

                              (2) Terms

        The Secretary shall establish reasonable terms for loans made 
    under this section which are to be used to carry out the purposes of 
    this section.

(c) Authorization of appropriations

    There are authorized to be appropriated--
        (1) $10,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 1994, 1995, 1996, 
    1999, 2000, 2001, 2002 and 2003 to carry out the purposes of 
    subsection (a)(1) of this section;
        (2) $10,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 1994, 1995, 1996, 
    1999, 2000, 2001, 2002 and 2003 to carry out the purposes of 
    subsection (a)(2) of this section; and
        (3) $10,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 1994, 1995, 1996, 
    1999, 2000, 2001, 2002 and 2003 to carry out the purposes of 
    subsection (b) of this section.

(Pub. L. 102-486, title XXVI, Sec. 2603, Oct. 24, 1992, 106 Stat. 3114; 
Pub. L. 105-388, Sec. 10, Nov. 13, 1998, 112 Stat. 3484.)


                               Amendments

    1998--Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 105-388, substituted ``1999, 2000, 2001, 
2002 and 2003'' for ``and 1997'' wherever appearing.
