---
kind: "section"
citation: "25 U.S.C. § 4145a"
title: "25"
title_heading: "Indians"
number: "4145a"
heading: "Program authority"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/25/4145a"
units:
  - "Chapter 43 — Native American Housing Assistance and Self-Determination"
  - "Subchapter II — Affordable Housing Activities"
  - "Part B — Self-Determined Housing Activities for Tribal Communities"
---

# §4145a. Program authority

- (a) **Definition of qualifying Indian tribe—** In this section, the term “qualifying [Indian tribe](/usc/25/4103.md?p=13-A)” means, with respect to a fiscal year, an [Indian tribe](/usc/25/4103.md?p=13-A) or [tribally designated housing entity](/usc/25/4103.md?p=22)—
  - (1) to or on behalf of which a grant is made under [section 4111 of this title](/usc/25/4111.md);
  - (2) that has complied with the requirements of [section 4112(b)(6)](/usc/25/4112.md)[^1] of this title; and
  - (3) that, during the preceding 3-fiscal-year period, has no unresolved significant and material audit findings or exceptions, as demonstrated in—
    - (A) the annual audits of that period completed under [chapter 75](/usc/31/chstV/ch75.md) of title 31 (commonly known as the “Single Audit Act”); or
    - (B) an independent financial audit prepared in accordance with generally accepted auditing principles.
- (b) **Authority—** Under the program under this part, for each of fiscal years 2009 through 2013, the [recipient](/usc/25/4103.md?p=19) for each qualifying [Indian tribe](/usc/25/4103.md?p=13-A) may use the amounts specified in [subsection (c)](#c) in accordance with this part.
- (c) **Amounts—** With respect to a fiscal year and a [recipient](/usc/25/4103.md?p=19), the amounts referred to in [subsection (b)](#b) are amounts from any grant provided under [section 4111 of this title](/usc/25/4111.md) to the [recipient](/usc/25/4103.md?p=19) for the fiscal year, as determined by the [recipient](/usc/25/4103.md?p=19), but in no case exceeding the lesser of—
  - (1) an amount equal to 20 percent of the total grant amount for the [recipient](/usc/25/4103.md?p=19) for that fiscal year; and
  - (2) $2,000,000.

## Footnotes

[^1]: So in original. Section 4112(b) of this title does not contain a par. (6).

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 104–330, title II, § 232, as added Pub. L. 110–411, title II, § 206(a)(2), Oct. 14, 2008, 122 Stat. 4326.)