§ 3503. — Promoting energy resource development and energy vertical integration on Indian reservations.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 25USC3503]
TITLE 25--INDIANS
CHAPTER 37--INDIAN ENERGY RESOURCES
Sec. 3503. Promoting energy resource development and energy
vertical integration on Indian reservations
(a) Demonstration programs
The Secretary of Energy, in consultation with the Secretary of the
Interior, shall establish and implement a demonstration program to
assist Indian tribes in pursuing energy self-sufficiency and to promote
the development of a vertically integrated energy industry on Indian
reservations, in order to increase development of the substantial energy
resources located on such Indian reservations. Such program shall
include, but not be limited to, the following components:
(1) The Secretary shall provide development grants to Indian
tribes or to joint ventures which are 51 percent or more controlled
by an Indian tribe to assist Indian tribes in obtaining the
managerial and technical capability needed to develop the energy
resources on Indian reservations. Such grants shall include
provisions for management training for tribal or village members,
improving the technical capacity of the Indian tribe, and the
reduction of tribal unemployment. Each grant shall be for a period
of 3 years.
(2) The Secretary shall provide grants, not to exceed 50 percent
of the project costs, for vertical integration projects. For
purposes of this paragraph, the term ``vertical integration
project'' means a project that promotes the vertical integration of
the energy resources on an Indian reservation, so that the energy
resources are used or processed on such Indian reservation. Such
term includes, but is not limited to, projects involving solar and
wind energy, oil refineries, the generation and transmission of
electricity, hydroelectricity, cogeneration, natural gas
distribution, and clean, innovative uses of coal.
(3) The Secretary shall provide technical assistance (and such
other assistance as is appropriate) to Indian tribes for energy
resource development and to promote the vertical integration of
energy resources on Indian reservations.
(b) Low interest loans
(1) In general
The Secretary shall establish a program for making low interest
loans to Indian tribes. Such loans shall be used exclusively by
Indian tribes in the promotion of energy resource development and
vertical integration on Indian reservations.
(2) Terms
The Secretary shall establish reasonable terms for loans made
under this section which are to be used to carry out the purposes of
this section.
(c) Authorization of appropriations
There are authorized to be appropriated--
(1) $10,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 1994, 1995, 1996,
1999, 2000, 2001, 2002 and 2003 to carry out the purposes of
subsection (a)(1) of this section;
(2) $10,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 1994, 1995, 1996,
1999, 2000, 2001, 2002 and 2003 to carry out the purposes of
subsection (a)(2) of this section; and
(3) $10,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 1994, 1995, 1996,
1999, 2000, 2001, 2002 and 2003 to carry out the purposes of
subsection (b) of this section.
(Pub. L. 102-486, title XXVI, Sec. 2603, Oct. 24, 1992, 106 Stat. 3114;
Pub. L. 105-388, Sec. 10, Nov. 13, 1998, 112 Stat. 3484.)
Amendments
1998--Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 105-388, substituted ``1999, 2000, 2001,
2002 and 2003'' for ``and 1997'' wherever appearing.
