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

# §1660e. Expanded program authority for urban Indian organizations


Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, the [Secretary](/usc/25/1603.md?p=17), acting through the [Service](/usc/25/1603.md?p=18), is authorized to establish programs, including programs for awarding grants, for [urban Indian organizations](/usc/25/1603.md?p=29) that are identical to any programs established pursuant to sections [1621q](/usc/25/1621q.md), [1665a](/usc/25/1665a.md), and [1665g(g)](/usc/25/1665g.md?p=g) of this title.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 94–437, title V, § 515, as added Pub. L. 111–148, title X, § 10221(a), Mar. 23, 2010, 124 Stat. 935.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

This chapter, referred to in text, was in the original “this Act”, meaning Pub. L. 94–437, Sept. 30, 1976, 90 Stat. 1400, known as the Indian Health Care Improvement Act, which is classified principally to this chapter. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 1601 of this title and Tables.

### Codification

Section 515 of Pub. L. 94–437 is based on section 164 of title I of S. 1790, One Hundred Eleventh Congress, as reported by the Committee on Indian Affairs of the Senate in Dec. 2009, which was enacted into law by section 10221(a) of Pub. L. 111–148.