---
kind: "section"
citation: "25 U.S.C. § 5636"
title: "25"
title_heading: "Indians"
number: "5636"
heading: "Cost savings"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/25/5636"
units:
  - "Chapter 48 — Indian Trust Asset Reform"
  - "Subchapter III — Improving Efficiency and Streamlining Processes"
---

# §5636. Cost savings

- (a) **In general—** For any program, function, service, or activity (or any portion of a program, function, service, or activity) of the Office of the Special Trustee that will not be operated or carried out as a result of a transfer of functions and personnel following enactment of this chapter, the [Secretary](/usc/25/5611.md?p=3) shall—
  - (1) identify the amounts that the [Secretary](/usc/25/5611.md?p=3) would otherwise have expended to operate or carry out each program, function, service, and activity (or portion of a program, function, service, or activity); and
  - (2) provide to the tribal representatives of the Tribal-Interior Budget Council or the representative of any other appropriate entity that advises the [Secretary](/usc/25/5611.md?p=3) on Indian program budget or funding issues a [list](/usc/25/5130.md?p=3) that describes—
    - (A) the programs, functions, services, and activities (or any portion of a program, function, service, or activity) identified under [paragraph (1)](#a-1); and
    - (B) the amounts associated with each program, function, service, and activity (or portion of a program, function, service, or activity).
- (b) **Tribal recommendations—** Not later than 90 days after the date of receipt of a [list](/usc/25/5130.md?p=3) under [subsection (a)(2)](#a-2), the tribal representatives of the Tribal-Interior Budget Council and the representatives of any other appropriate entities that advise the [Secretary](/usc/25/5611.md?p=3) on Indian program budget or funding issues may provide recommendations regarding how any amounts or cost savings should be reallocated, incorporated into future budget requests, or appropriated to—
  - (1) the [Secretary](/usc/25/5611.md?p=3);
  - (2) the Office of Management and Budget;
  - (3) the Committee on Appropriations of the House of Representatives;
  - (4) the Committee on Natural Resources of the House of Representatives;
  - (5) the Committee on Appropriations of the Senate; and
  - (6) the Committee on Indian Affairs of the Senate.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 114–178, title III, § 306, June 22, 2016, 130 Stat. 442.)