---
kind: "section"
citation: "25 U.S.C. § 1680e"
title: "25"
title_heading: "Indians"
number: "1680e"
heading: "Contract health services for the Trenton Service Area"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/25/1680e"
units:
  - "Chapter 18 — Indian Health Care"
  - "Subchapter VI — Miscellaneous"
---

# §1680e. Contract health services for the Trenton Service Area

- (a) **Service to Turtle Mountain Band—** The [Secretary](/usc/25/1603.md?p=17), acting through the [Service](/usc/25/1603.md?p=18), is directed to provide [contract health services](/usc/25/1603.md?p=5) to members of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa [Indians](/usc/25/1603.md?p=13) that reside in the Trenton [Service Area](/usc/25/1603.md?p=19) of Divide, McKenzie, and Williams counties in the State of North Dakota and the adjoining counties of Richland, Roosevelt, and Sheridan in the State of Montana.
- (b) **Band member eligibility not expanded—** Nothing in this section may be construed as expanding the eligibility of members of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa [Indians](/usc/25/1603.md?p=13) for health [services](/usc/25/1603.md?p=18) provided by the [Service](/usc/25/1603.md?p=18) beyond the scope of eligibility for such health [services](/usc/25/1603.md?p=18) that applied on May 1, 1986.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 94–437, title VIII, § 815, formerly title VII, § 715, as added Pub. L. 100–713, title VII, § 709, Nov. 23, 1988, 102 Stat. 4831; renumbered title VIII, § 815, Pub. L. 102–573, title VII, § 701(a), (b), Oct. 29, 1992, 106 Stat. 4572.)