---
kind: "section"
citation: "25 U.S.C. § 1660"
title: "25"
title_heading: "Indians"
number: "1660"
heading: "Urban Health Programs Branch"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/25/1660"
units:
  - "Chapter 18 — Indian Health Care"
  - "Subchapter IV — Health Services for Urban Indians"
---

# §1660. Urban Health Programs Branch

- (a) **Establishment—** There is hereby established within the [Service](/usc/25/1603.md?p=18) a Branch of Urban Health Programs which shall be responsible for carrying out the provisions of this subchapter and for providing central oversight of the programs and [services](/usc/25/1603.md?p=18) authorized under this subchapter.
- (b) **Staff, services, and equipment—** The [Secretary](/usc/25/1603.md?p=17) shall appoint such employees to work in the branch, including a program director, and shall provide such [services](/usc/25/1603.md?p=18) and equipment, as may be necessary for it to carry out its responsibilities. The [Secretary](/usc/25/1603.md?p=17) shall also analyze the need to provide at least one urban health program analyst for each [area office](/usc/25/1603.md?p=1) of the [Indian](/usc/25/1603.md?p=13) Health [Service](/usc/25/1603.md?p=18) and shall submit his findings to the Congress as a part of the [Department](/usc/25/1603.md?p=6)’s fiscal year 1993 budget request.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 94–437, title V, § 510, formerly § 511, as added Pub. L. 101–630, title V, § 508, Nov. 28, 1990, 104 Stat. 4567; renumbered § 510 and amended Pub. L. 102–573, title V, § 501(b)(7), title IX, § 902(5)(B), Oct. 29, 1992, 106 Stat. 4569, 4591.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1992—Pub. L. 102–573, § 902(5)(B), made technical amendment to section catchline.

Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 102–573, § 501(b)(7), inserted “and for providing central oversight of the programs and services authorized under this subchapter” before period at end.