---
kind: "section"
citation: "25 U.S.C. § 1804a"
title: "25"
title_heading: "Indians"
number: "1804a"
heading: "Planning grants"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/25/1804a"
units:
  - "Chapter 20 — Tribally Controlled Colleges and Universities Assistance"
  - "Subchapter I — Tribally Controlled Colleges or Universities Grant Program"
---

# §1804a. Planning grants

- (a) **Establishment of program—** The [Secretary](/usc/25/5130.md?p=1) shall establish a program in accordance with this section to make grants to tribes and tribal entities (1) to conduct planning activities for the purpose of developing proposals for the establishment of tribally controlled colleges or universities, or (2) to determine the need and potential for the establishment of such colleges or universities.
- (b) **Procedures for submission and review of applications—** The [Secretary](/usc/25/5130.md?p=1) shall establish, by regulation, procedures for the submission and review of applications for grants under this section.
- (c) **Reservation of funds; number of grants—** From the amount appropriated to carry out this subchapter for any fiscal year (exclusive of sums appropriated for [section 1805 of this title](/usc/25/1805.md)), the [Secretary](/usc/25/5130.md?p=1) shall reserve (and expend) an amount necessary to make grants to five applicants under this section of not more than $15,000 each, or an amount necessary to make grants in that amount to each of the approved applicants, if less than five apply and are approved.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 95–471, title I, § 104, as added Pub. L. 98–192, § 4(a)(2), Dec. 1, 1983, 97 Stat. 1336; amended Pub. L. 105–244, title IX, § 901(b)(6), (8), Oct. 7, 1998, 112 Stat. 1828.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1998—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 105–244 substituted “controlled colleges or universities” for “controlled community colleges” in cl. (1) and “such colleges or universities” for “such colleges” in cl. (2).

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date of 1998 Amendment

Amendment by Pub. L. 105–244 effective Oct. 1, 1998, except as otherwise provided in Pub. L. 105–244, see section 3 of Pub. L. 105–244, set out as a note under section 1001 of Title 20, Education.