---
kind: "section"
citation: "25 C.F.R. § 286.8"
title: "25"
number: "286.8"
heading: "Priority criteria."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/25/286.8"
---

# §286.8. Priority criteria.


The following priority will be used in selecting economic enterprises for grant funding:

- (a) **First priority.** First priority will be given to economic enterprises located on a reservation that will:
  - (1) **Utilize Indian resources, both natural and human.**
  - (2) Create the highest ratio of Indian jobs to the total amount of dollars to be invested, including market value of materials and equipment contributed to the project.
  - (3) Create the highest ratio of income to a tribe or its members in relation to the total amount of dollars to be invested, including market value of materials or equipment contributed to the project.
  - (4) **Generate the most non-Bureau financing.**
- (b) **Second priority.** Second priority will be given to projects located in the immediate vicinity of a reservation that will:
  - (1) **Utilize Indian resources, both natural and human.**
  - (2) Create the highest ratio of Indian jobs to the total amount of dollars to be invested, including market value of materials and equipment contributed to the project.
  - (3) **Generate the most non-Bureau financing.**

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 25 U.S.C. 1524.

### Source

Source: 39 FR 44748, Dec. 27, 1974, unless otherwise noted. Redesignated at 47 FR 13328, Mar. 30, 1982.