---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 6908a"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "6908a"
heading: "Agreements with Indian tribes"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/6908a"
units:
  - "Chapter 82 — Solid Waste Disposal"
  - "Subchapter I — General Provisions"
---

# §6908a. Agreements with Indian tribes


On and after October 21, 1998, the [Administrator](/usc/42/6903.md?p=1) is authorized to enter into assistance agreements with Federally[^1] recognized Indian tribes on such terms and conditions as the [Administrator](/usc/42/6903.md?p=1) deems appropriate for the development and [implementation](/usc/42/6903.md?p=8) of programs to manage [hazardous waste](/usc/42/6903.md?p=5), and underground [storage](/usc/42/6903.md?p=33) tanks.


## Footnotes

[^1]: So in original. Probably should not be capitalized.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 105–276, title III, Oct. 21, 1998, 112 Stat. 2499.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was enacted as part of the Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, and Independent Agencies Appropriations Act, 1999, and not as part of the Solid Waste Disposal Act which comprises this chapter.