---
kind: "section"
citation: "25 C.F.R. § 143.2"
title: "25"
number: "143.2"
heading: "Purpose."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/25/143.2"
---

# §143.2. Purpose.

- (a) The purpose of the regulations in this part is to establish procedures for the assessment, billing, and collection of charges for goods/services provided to non-Federal users.
- (b) The Assistant Secretary may sell or contract to sell to non-Federal users within, or in the immediate vicinity of an Indian Reservation (or former Reservation), any of the following goods/services if it is determined that the goods/services are not available from another local source or providing that goods/services is in the best interest of the Indian tribes or individual Indians. The goods/services include, but are not limited to:
  - (1) Electric power;
  - (2) Water;
  - (3) Sewage operations;
  - (4) Landfill operations;
  - (5) Steam;
  - (6) Compressed air;
  - (7) Telecommunications;
  - (8) Natural, manufactured, or mixed gas;
  - (9) Fuel oil;
  - (10) Landscaping; and
  - (11) **Garbage collections.**

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 31 U.S.C. 9701; 25 U.S.C. 2, 13, 413.

### Source

Source: 55 FR 19621, May 10, 1990, unless otherwise noted.