---
kind: "section"
citation: "25 U.S.C. § 3114"
title: "25"
title_heading: "Indians"
number: "3114"
heading: "Postgraduation recruitment, education and training programs"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/25/3114"
units:
  - "Chapter 33 — National Indian Forest Resources Management"
---

# §3114. Postgraduation recruitment, education and training programs

- (a) **Postgraduation recruitment—** The [Secretary](/usc/25/3103.md?p=13) shall establish and maintain a program to attract [Indian](/usc/25/3103.md?p=9) and [Alaska Native](/usc/25/3103.md?p=1) professional foresters and forester technicians who have already graduated from their course of postsecondary or graduate education for employment in either the Bureau of [Indian](/usc/25/3103.md?p=9) Affairs forestry programs or, subject to the approval of the tribe, in tribal forestry programs. According to such regulations as the [Secretary](/usc/25/3103.md?p=13) may prescribe, such program shall provide for the employment of [Indian](/usc/25/3103.md?p=9) and [Alaska Native](/usc/25/3103.md?p=1) professional foresters or forestry technicians in exchange for the [Secretary](/usc/25/3103.md?p=13)’s assumption of the employee’s outstanding student loans. The period of employment shall be determined by the amount of the loan that is assumed.
- (b) **Postgraduate intergovernmental internships—** For the purposes of training, skill development and orientation of [Indian](/usc/25/3103.md?p=9), [Alaska native](/usc/25/3103.md?p=1),[^1] and Federal forestry personnel, and the enhancement of tribal and Bureau of [Indian](/usc/25/3103.md?p=9) Affairs forestry programs, the [Secretary](/usc/25/3103.md?p=13) shall establish and actively conduct a program for the cooperative internship of Federal, [Indian](/usc/25/3103.md?p=9), and [Alaska Native](/usc/25/3103.md?p=1) forestry personnel. Such program shall—
  - (1) for agencies within the Department of the Interior—
    - (A) provide for the internship of Bureau of [Indian](/usc/25/3103.md?p=9) Affairs, [Alaska Native](/usc/25/3103.md?p=1), and [Indian](/usc/25/3103.md?p=9) forestry employees in the forestry-related programs of other agencies of the Department of the Interior, and
    - (B) provide for the internship of forestry personnel from other Department of the Interior agencies within the Bureau of [Indian](/usc/25/3103.md?p=9) Affairs and, with the consent of the tribe, within tribal forestry programs;
  - (2) for agencies not within the Department of the Interior, provide, pursuant to an interagency agreement, internships within the Bureau of [Indian](/usc/25/3103.md?p=9) Affairs and, with the consent of the tribe, within a tribal forestry program of other forestry personnel of such agencies who are above their sixth year of Federal service;
  - (3) provide for the continuation of salary and benefits for participating Federal employees by their originating agency;
  - (4) provide for salaries and benefits of participating [Indian](/usc/25/3103.md?p=9) and [Alaska Native](/usc/25/3103.md?p=1) forestry employees by the host agency; and
  - (5) provide for a bonus pay incentive at the conclusion of the internship for any participant.
- (c) **Continuing education and training—** The [Secretary](/usc/25/3103.md?p=13) shall maintain a program within the Division of Forestry of the Bureau of [Indian](/usc/25/3103.md?p=9) Affairs for the ongoing education and training of Bureau of [Indian](/usc/25/3103.md?p=9) Affairs, [Alaska Native](/usc/25/3103.md?p=1), and [Indian](/usc/25/3103.md?p=9) forestry personnel. Such program shall provide for—
  - (1) orientation training for Bureau of [Indian](/usc/25/3103.md?p=9) Affairs forestry personnel in tribal-Federal relations and responsibilities;
  - (2) continuing technical forestry education for Bureau of [Indian](/usc/25/3103.md?p=9) Affairs, [Alaska Native](/usc/25/3103.md?p=1), and tribal forestry personnel; and
  - (3) developmental training of [Indian](/usc/25/3103.md?p=9) and [Alaska Native](/usc/25/3103.md?p=1) personnel in [forest](/usc/25/3103.md?p=2) land based enterprises and marketing.

## Footnotes

[^1]: So in original. Probably should be capitalized.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 101–630, title III, § 315, Nov. 28, 1990, 104 Stat. 4542.)