---
kind: "section"
citation: "25 U.S.C. § 4045"
title: "25"
title_heading: "Indians"
number: "4045"
heading: "Staff and consultants"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/25/4045"
units:
  - "Chapter 42 — American Indian Trust Fund Management Reform"
  - "Subchapter III — Special Trustee for American Indians"
---

# §4045. Staff and consultants

- (a) **Staff—** The [Special Trustee](/usc/25/4001.md?p=1) may employ such staff as the [Special Trustee](/usc/25/4001.md?p=1) deems necessary. The [Special Trustee](/usc/25/4001.md?p=1) may request staff assistance from within the [Department](/usc/25/4001.md?p=6) and any [office](/usc/25/4001.md?p=4) or [Bureau](/usc/25/4001.md?p=5) thereof as the [Special Trustee](/usc/25/4001.md?p=1) deems necessary.
- (b) **Contracts—** To the extent and in such amounts as may be provided in advance by appropriations Acts, the [Special Trustee](/usc/25/4001.md?p=1) may enter into contracts and other arrangements with public agencies and with private persons and organizations for consulting services and make such payments as necessary to carry out the provisions of this subchapter.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 103–412, title III, § 305, Oct. 25, 1994, 108 Stat. 4248.)