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[CITE: 25USC452]

 
                            TITLE 25--INDIANS
 
                        CHAPTER 14--MISCELLANEOUS
 
    SUBCHAPTER II--INDIAN SELF-DETERMINATION AND EDUCATION ASSISTANCE
 
                      Part B--Contracts With States
 
Sec. 452. Contracts for education, medical attention, relief and 
        social welfare of Indians
        
    The Secretary of the Interior is authorized, in his discretion, to 
enter into a contract or contracts with any State or Territory, or 
political subdivision thereof, or with any State university, college, or 
school, or with any appropriate State or private corporation, agency, or 
institution, for the education, medical attention, agricultural 
assistance, and social welfare, including relief of distress, of Indians 
in such State or Territory, through the agencies of the State or 
Territory or of the corporations and organizations hereinbefore named, 
and to expend under such contract or contracts, moneys appropriated by 
Congress for the education, medical attention, agricultural assistance, 
and social welfare, including relief of distress, of Indians in such 
State or Territory.

(Apr. 16, 1934, ch. 147, Sec. 1, 48 Stat. 596; June 4, 1936, ch. 490, 
Sec. 1, 49 Stat. 1458.)


                               Amendments

    1936--Act June 4, 1936, substituted ``with any State or Territory, 
or political subdivision thereof, or with any State university, college, 
or school, or with any appropriate State or private corporation, agency, 
or institution'', ``through the agencies of the State or Territory or of 
the corporations and organizations hereinbefore named,'', and ``such 
State or Territory'' for ``any State or Territory having legal authority 
so to do,'', ``through the qualified agencies of such State or 
Territory,'', and ``such State'', respectively.


                               Short Title

    Act April 16, 1934, ch. 147, 48 Stat. 596, which enacted sections 
452 to 457 of this title, is popularly known as the ``Johnson-O'Malley 
Act''.


                Distribution of Public School Assistance

    Pub. L. 100-446, title I, Sept. 27, 1988, 102 Stat. 1795, provided 
that: ``notwithstanding any other provision of law, the amounts 
available for assistance to public schools under the Act of April 16, 
1934 (48 Stat. 596), as amended (25 U.S.C. 452 et seq.), shall be 
distributed on the basis of the formula recommended by the Assistant 
Secretary of Indian Affairs in a letter to the Committees on 
Appropriations dated June 27, 1988, except that for the fiscal year 
ending September 30, 1989, the minimum weight factor shall be 1.1 rather 
than 1.3 and for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1990, the minimum 
weight factor shall be 1.2 rather than 1.3''.
    Similar provisions were contained in the following prior 
appropriation act:
    Pub. L. 100-202, Sec. 101(g) [title I], Dec. 22, 1987, 101 Stat. 
1329-213, 1329-228.


                    Limitation on Contract Authority

    Pub. L. 99-190, Sec. 101(d) [title I], Dec. 19, 1985, 99 Stat. 1224, 
1235, provided that: ``notwithstanding any law or regulation, in 
allocating funds for aid to public schools under the Act of April 16, 
1934, as amended [sections 452 to 457 of this title], the Secretary 
shall enter into contracts only for the provision of supplementary 
educational services for Indian children''.

                    Act Referred to in Other Sections

    The Johnson-O'Malley Act is referred to in sections 13-1, 13e, 292b, 
304a, 450d, 450e, 450f, 458d, 458cc, 458aaa-4, 2010, 2432 of this title; 
title 20 sections 2302, 7816; title 43 section 1620.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 453, 454, 456 of this title.
