---
kind: "section"
citation: "25 U.S.C. § 4041"
title: "25"
title_heading: "Indians"
number: "4041"
heading: "Purposes"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/25/4041"
units:
  - "Chapter 42 — American Indian Trust Fund Management Reform"
  - "Subchapter III — Special Trustee for American Indians"
---

# §4041. Purposes


The purposes of this subchapter are—

- (1) to provide for more effective management of, and accountability for the proper discharge of, the [Secretary](/usc/25/4001.md?p=3)’s trust responsibilities to [Indian tribes](/usc/25/4001.md?p=2) and individual Indians by establishing in the [Department](/usc/25/4001.md?p=6) of the Interior an [Office](/usc/25/4001.md?p=4) of [Special Trustee](/usc/25/4001.md?p=1) for American Indians to oversee and coordinate reforms within the [Department](/usc/25/4001.md?p=6) of practices relating to the management and discharge of such responsibilities;
- (2) to ensure that reform of such practices in the [Department](/usc/25/4001.md?p=6) is carried out in a unified manner and that reforms of the policies, practices, procedures and systems of the [Bureau](/usc/25/4001.md?p=5), Minerals Management Service, and [Bureau](/usc/25/4001.md?p=5) of Land Management, which carry out such trust responsibilities, are effective, consistent, and integrated; and
- (3) to ensure the implementation of all reforms necessary for the proper discharge of the [Secretary](/usc/25/4001.md?p=3)’s trust responsibilities to [Indian tribes](/usc/25/4001.md?p=2) and individual Indians.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 103–412, title III, § 301, Oct. 25, 1994, 108 Stat. 4244.)

## Notes

### Executive Documents

### Transfer of Functions

The Minerals Management Service was abolished and functions divided among the Office of Natural Resources Revenue, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, and the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement. See Secretary of the Interior Orders No. 3299 of May 19, 2010, and No. 3302 of June 18, 2010, and chapters II, V, and XII of title 30, Code of Federal Regulations, as revised by final rules of the Department of the Interior at 75 F.R. 61051 and 76 F.R. 64432.