---
kind: "section"
citation: "25 U.S.C. § 1522"
title: "25"
title_heading: "Indians"
number: "1522"
heading: "Conditions"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/25/1522"
units:
  - "Chapter 17 — Financing Economic Development of Indians and Indian Organizations"
  - "Subchapter IV — Indian Business Grants"
---

# §1522. Conditions

- (a) **Limitation of amount—** No grant in excess of $100,000 in the case of an [Indian](/usc/25/1452.md?p=b) and $250,000 in the case of an [Indian tribe](/usc/25/5130.md?p=2), or such lower amount as the [Secretary](/usc/25/1452.md?p=a) may determine to be appropriate, may be made under this subchapter.
- (b) **Financing from other sources; inability to obtain funds; applicant’s financial resources—** A grant may be made only to an applicant who, in the opinion of the [Secretary](/usc/25/1452.md?p=a), is unable to obtain adequate financing for its [economic enterprise](/usc/25/1452.md?p=e) from other sources: Provided, That prior to making any grant under this subchapter, the [Secretary](/usc/25/1452.md?p=a) shall assure that, where practical, the applicant has reasonably made available for the [economic enterprise](/usc/25/1452.md?p=e) funds from the applicant’s own financial resources.
- (c) **Percentage requirement—** No grant may be made to an applicant who is unable to obtain at least 60 per centum of the necessary funds for the [economic enterprise](/usc/25/1452.md?p=e) from other sources.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 93–262, title IV, § 402, Apr. 12, 1974, 88 Stat. 83; Pub. L. 98–449, § 9, Oct. 4, 1984, 98 Stat. 1725.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1984—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 98–449 amended subsec. (a) generally, substituting provisions setting forth different levels of maximum grant amounts in cases of Indians and Indian tribes for provisions providing a maximum of $50,000 in cases of both Indians and Indian tribes.