---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 9911"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "9911"
heading: "Payments to Indian tribes"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/9911"
units:
  - "Chapter 106 — Community Services Block Grant Program"
---

# §9911. Payments to Indian tribes

- (a) **Reservation—** If, with respect to any [State](/usc/42/9902.md?p=5), the [Secretary](/usc/42/9902.md?p=4)—
  - (1) receives a request from the governing body of an Indian tribe or tribal organization within the [State](/usc/42/9902.md?p=5) that assistance under this chapter be made directly to such tribe or organization; and
  - (2) determines that the members of such tribe or tribal organization would be better served by means of grants made directly to provide benefits under this chapter,

  the [Secretary](/usc/42/9902.md?p=4) shall reserve from amounts that would otherwise be allotted to such [State](/usc/42/9902.md?p=5) under [section 9906 of this title](/usc/42/9906.md) for the fiscal year the amount determined under [subsection (b)](#b).

- (b) **Determination of reserved amount—** The [Secretary](/usc/42/9902.md?p=4) shall reserve for the purpose of [subsection (a)](#a) from amounts that would otherwise be allotted to such [State](/usc/42/9902.md?p=5), not less than 100 percent of an amount that bears the same ratio to the [State](/usc/42/9902.md?p=5) allotment for the fiscal year involved as the population of all eligible Indians for whom a determination has been made under [subsection (a)](#a) bears to the population of all individuals eligible for assistance through a community services block grant made under this chapter in such [State](/usc/42/9902.md?p=5).
- (c) **Awards—** The sums reserved by the [Secretary](/usc/42/9902.md?p=4) on the basis of a determination made under [subsection (a)](#a) shall be made available by grant to the Indian tribe or tribal organization serving the individuals for whom such a determination has been made.
- (d) **Plan—** In order for an Indian tribe or tribal organization to be eligible for a grant award for a fiscal year under this section, the tribe or organization shall submit to the [Secretary](/usc/42/9902.md?p=4) a plan for such fiscal year that meets such criteria as the [Secretary](/usc/42/9902.md?p=4) may prescribe by regulation.
- (e) **Definitions—** In this section:
  - (1) **Indian tribe; tribal organization—** The terms “Indian tribe” and “tribal organization” mean a tribe, band, or other organized group recognized in the [State](/usc/42/9902.md?p=5) in which the tribe, band, or group resides, or considered by the [Secretary](/usc/42/9902.md?p=4) of the Interior, to be an Indian tribe or an Indian organization for any purpose.
  - (2) **Indian—** The term “Indian” means a member of an Indian tribe or of a tribal organization.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 97–35, title VI, § 677, as added Pub. L. 105–285, title II, § 201, Oct. 27, 1998, 112 Stat. 2741.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Prior Provisions

A prior section 9911, Pub. L. 97–35, title VI, § 683, formerly § 682, as added Pub. L. 101–501, title IV, § 407(a), Nov. 3, 1990, 104 Stat. 1254; amended Pub. L. 103–171, § 7(b), Dec. 2, 1993, 107 Stat. 1993; renumbered § 683, Pub. L. 103–252, title II, § 205(1), May 18, 1994, 108 Stat. 655, related to annual reports by Secretary, prior to the general amendment of this chapter by Pub. L. 105–285.

Another prior section 9911, Pub. L. 97–35, title VI, § 682, Aug. 13, 1981, 95 Stat. 518; Pub. L. 97–115, § 17(c), Dec. 29, 1981, 95 Stat. 1609; Pub. L. 97–274, Sept. 30, 1982, 96 Stat. 1183, related to transition provisions, prior to repeal by Pub. L. 101–501, § 407(a).

A prior section 677 of Pub. L. 97–35 was classified to section 9906 of this title, prior to the general amendment of this chapter by Pub. L. 105–285.