---
kind: "section"
citation: "25 U.S.C. § 3403"
title: "25"
title_heading: "Indians"
number: "3403"
heading: "Integration of services authorized"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/25/3403"
units:
  - "Chapter 36 — Indian Employment, Training and Related Services"
---

# §3403. Integration of services authorized


The [Secretary](/usc/25/3402.md?p=5) shall, after approving a plan submitted by an [Indian tribe](/usc/25/3402.md?p=2-A) in accordance with [section 3407 of this title](/usc/25/3407.md), authorize the [Indian tribe](/usc/25/3402.md?p=2-A) to, in accordance with the plan—

- (1) integrate the [programs](/usc/25/3402.md?p=4) and Federal funds received by the [Indian tribe](/usc/25/3402.md?p=2-A) in accordance with waiver authority granted under [section 3406(d) of this title](/usc/25/3406.md?p=d); and
- (2) coordinate the employment, training, and related services provided with those funds in a consolidated and comprehensive tribal plan.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 102–477, § 4, Oct. 23, 1992, 106 Stat. 2302; Pub. L. 115–93, § 5, Dec. 18, 2017, 131 Stat. 2027.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

2017—Pub. L. 115–93 amended section generally. Prior to amendment, text read as follows: “The Secretary of the Interior, in cooperation with the appropriate Secretary of Labor, Secretary of Health and Human Services, or Secretary of Education, shall, upon the receipt of a plan acceptable to the Secretary of the Interior submitted by an Indian tribal government, authorize the tribal government to coordinate, in accordance with such plan, its federally funded employment, training, and related services programs in a manner that integrates the program services involved into a single, coordinated, comprehensive program and reduces administrative costs by consolidating administrative functions.”