---
kind: "section"
citation: "25 U.S.C. § 1663a"
title: "25"
title_heading: "Indians"
number: "1663a"
heading: "Nevada Area Office"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/25/1663a"
units:
  - "Chapter 18 — Indian Health Care"
  - "Subchapter V — Organizational Improvements"
---

# §1663a. Nevada Area Office

- (a) **In general—** Not later than 1 year after March 23, 2010, in a manner consistent with the tribal consultation policy of the [Service](/usc/25/1603.md?p=18), the [Secretary](/usc/25/1603.md?p=17) shall submit to Congress a plan describing the manner and schedule by which an [area office](/usc/25/1603.md?p=1), separate and distinct from the Phoenix [Area Office](/usc/25/1603.md?p=1) of the [Service](/usc/25/1603.md?p=18), can be established in the State of Nevada.
- (b) **Failure to submit plan—**
  - (1) **Definition of operations funds—** In this subsection, the term “operations funds” means only the funds used for—
    - (A) the [administration](/usc/25/1667a.md?p=1) of [services](/usc/25/1603.md?p=18), including functional expenses such as overtime, personnel salaries, and associated benefits; or
    - (B) related tasks that directly affect the operations described in [subparagraph (A)](#b-1-A).
  - (2) **Withholding of funds—** If the [Secretary](/usc/25/1603.md?p=17) fails to submit a plan in accordance with [subsection (a)](#a), the [Secretary](/usc/25/1603.md?p=17) shall withhold the operations funds reserved for the Office of the Director, subject to the condition that the withholding shall not adversely impact the capacity of the [Service](/usc/25/1603.md?p=18) to deliver health care [services](/usc/25/1603.md?p=18).
  - (3) **Restoration—** The operations funds withheld pursuant to [paragraph (2)](#b-2) may be restored, at the discretion of the [Secretary](/usc/25/1603.md?p=17), to the Office of the Director on achievement by that Office of compliance with this section.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 94–437, title VI, § 604, as added Pub. L. 111–148, title X, § 10221(a), Mar. 23, 2010, 124 Stat. 935.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section 604 of Pub. L. 94–437 is based on section 173 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.