---
kind: "section"
citation: "25 U.S.C. § 1494"
title: "25"
title_heading: "Indians"
number: "1494"
heading: "Evidence of eligibility of loan for and amount of guaranty or insurance; defenses and partial defenses against original lender"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/25/1494"
units:
  - "Chapter 17 — Financing Economic Development of Indians and Indian Organizations"
  - "Subchapter II — Loan Guaranty and Insurance"
---

# §1494. Evidence of eligibility of loan for and amount of guaranty or insurance; defenses and partial defenses against original lender


Any evidence of guaranty or insurance issued by the [Secretary](/usc/25/1452.md?p=a) shall be conclusive evidence of the eligibility of the loan for guaranty or insurance under the provisions of this chapter and the amount of such guaranty or insurance: Provided, That nothing in this section shall preclude the [Secretary](/usc/25/1452.md?p=a) from establishing, as against the original lender, defenses based on fraud or material misrepresentation or bar him from establishing, by regulations in force at the date of such issuance or disbursement, whichever is the earlier, partial defenses to the amount payable on the guaranty or insurance.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 93–262, title II, § 214, Apr. 12, 1974, 88 Stat. 81.)