---
kind: "section"
citation: "25 U.S.C. § 3110"
title: "25"
title_heading: "Indians"
number: "3110"
heading: "Tribal forestry programs"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/25/3110"
units:
  - "Chapter 33 — National Indian Forest Resources Management"
---

# §3110. Tribal forestry programs

- (a) **Establishment—** The [Secretary](/usc/25/3103.md?p=13) shall establish within the Bureau of [Indian](/usc/25/3103.md?p=9) Affairs a program to provide financial support to forestry programs established by an [Indian tribe](/usc/25/5130.md?p=2).
- (b) **Support allocation formula; criteria—**
  - (1) The [Secretary](/usc/25/3103.md?p=13), with the participation of [Indian tribes](/usc/25/5130.md?p=2) with [Indian forest lands](/usc/25/3103.md?p=3), shall establish, and promulgate by regulations, a formula—
    - (A) for the determination of [Indian tribes](/usc/25/5130.md?p=2) eligible for such support,
    - (B) for the provision of levels of assistance for the forestry programs of such tribes, and
    - (C) the allocation of base support funds to such tribes under the program established pursuant to [subsection (a)](#a).
  - (2) The formula established pursuant to this subsection shall provide funding necessary to support—
    - (A) one professional forester, including fringe benefits and support costs, for each eligible tribe, and
    - (B) one additional professional forester or [forest](/usc/25/3103.md?p=2) technician, including fringe benefits and support costs, for each level of assistance for which an eligible [Indian tribe](/usc/25/5130.md?p=2) qualifies.
  - (3) In any fiscal year that appropriations are not sufficient to fully fund tribal forestry programs at each level of assistance under the formula required to be established in this section, available funds for each level of assistance shall be evenly divided among the tribes qualifying for that level of assistance.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 101–630, title III, § 311, Nov. 28, 1990, 104 Stat. 4538.)