---
kind: "section"
citation: "25 U.S.C. § 3714"
title: "25"
title_heading: "Indians"
number: "3714"
heading: "Assessment of Indian agricultural management programs"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/25/3714"
units:
  - "Chapter 39 — American Indian Agricultural Resource Management"
  - "Subchapter I — Rangeland and Farmland Enhancement"
---

# §3714. Assessment of Indian agricultural management programs

- (a) **Assessment—** Within six months after December 3, 1993, the [Secretary](/usc/25/3703.md?p=15), in consultation with affected [Indian tribes](/usc/25/3703.md?p=10), shall enter into a contract with a non-Federal entity knowledgeable in agricultural management on Federal and private lands to conduct an independent assessment of [Indian](/usc/25/3703.md?p=8) agricultural land management and practices. Such assessment shall be national in scope and shall include a comparative analysis of Federal investment and management efforts for [Indian](/usc/25/3703.md?p=8) trust and restricted agricultural lands as compared to federally-owned lands managed by other Federal agencies or instrumentalities and as compared to federally-served private lands.
- (b) **Purposes—** The purposes of the assessment shall be—
  - (1) to establish a comprehensive assessment of the improvement, funding, and development needs for all [Indian agricultural lands](/usc/25/3703.md?p=1);
  - (2) to establish a comparison of management and funding provided to comparable lands owned or managed by the Federal Government through Federal agencies other than the [Bureau](/usc/25/3703.md?p=5); and
  - (3) to identify any obstacles to [Indian](/usc/25/3703.md?p=8) access to Federal or private programs relating to agriculture or related rural development programs generally available to the public at large.
- (c) **Implementation—** Within one year after December 3, 1993, the [Secretary](/usc/25/3703.md?p=15) shall provide the Subcommittee on Native American Affairs of the Committee on Natural Resources of the House of Representatives and the Committee on [Indian](/usc/25/3703.md?p=8) Affairs of the Senate with a status report on the development of the comparative analysis required by this section and shall file a final report with the Congress not later than 18 months after December 3, 1993.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 103–177, title I, § 104, Dec. 3, 1993, 107 Stat. 2016.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Change of Name

Subcommittee on Native American Affairs changed to Subcommittee for Indigenous Peoples of the United States.