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SEC. 14. ADMINISTRATION OF FUNDS. 
Section 14 of the Indian Employment, Training and Related 
Services Act of 1992 (25 U.S.C. 3413), as amended by section 
2 of this Act, is amended— 
(1) by redesignating subsection (b) as subsection (d); 
(2) by striking the section designation and heading and 
all that follows through subsection (a) and inserting the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘SEC. 14. ADMINISTRATION OF FUNDS. 
‘‘(a) REQUIREMENTS.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.— 
‘‘(A) CONSOLIDATION AND REALLOCATION OF FUNDS.— 
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, all amounts 
transferred to a tribe pursuant to an approved plan may 
be consolidated, reallocated, and rebudgeted as specified 
in the approved plan to best meet the employment, 
training, and related needs of the local community served 
by the Indian tribe. 
‘‘(B) AUTHORIZED USE OF FUNDS.—The amounts used 
to carry out a plan approved under this Act shall be 
administered in such manner as the Secretary determines 
to be appropriate to ensure the amounts are spent on 
activities authorized under the approved plan. 
‘‘(C) EFFECT.—Nothing in this section interferes with 
the ability of the Secretary or the lead agency to use 
accounting procedures that conform to generally accepted 
accounting principles, auditing procedures, and safe-
guarding of funds that conform to chapter 75 of title 31, 
United States Code (commonly known as the ‘Single Audit 
Act of 1984’). 
‘‘(2) SEPARATE RECORDS AND AUDITS NOT REQUIRED.—Not-
withstanding any other provision of law (including regulations 
and circulars of any agency (including Office of Management 
and Budget Circular A–133)), an Indian tribe that has in place 
an approved plan under this Act shall not be required— 
‘‘(A) to maintain separate records that trace any service 
or activity conducted under the approved plan to the pro-
gram for which the funds were initially authorized or trans-
ferred; 
‘‘(B) to allocate expenditures among such a program; 
or 
‘‘(C) to audit expenditures by the original source of 
the program. 
‘‘(b) CARRYOVER.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—Any funds transferred to an Indian tribe 
under this Act that are not obligated or expended prior to 
the beginning of the fiscal year after the fiscal year for which 
the funds were appropriated shall remain available for obliga-
tion or expenditure without fiscal year limitation, subject to 
the condition that the funds shall be obligated or expended 
in accordance with the approved plan of the Indian tribe. 
‘‘(2) NO
ADDITIONAL
DOCUMENTATION.—The Indian tribe 
shall not be required to provide any additional justification 
or documentation of the purposes of the approved plan as 
a condition of receiving or expending the funds.
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‘‘(c) INDIRECT COSTS.—Notwithstanding any other provision of 
law, an Indian tribe shall be entitled to recover 100 percent of 
any indirect costs incurred by the Indian tribe as a result of the 
transfer of funds to the Indian tribe under this Act.’’; and 
(3) in subsection (d) (as redesignated by paragraph (1))— 
(A) by striking ‘‘All administrative’’ and inserting the 
following: 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—All administrative’’; and 
(B) by striking ‘‘regulations)’’ and all that follows 
through the end of the subsection and inserting the fol-
lowing: ‘‘regulations). 
‘‘(2) TREATMENT.—The amount equal to the difference 
between the amount of the commingled funds and the actual 
administrative cost of the programs, as described in paragraph 
(1), shall be considered to be properly spent for Federal audit 
purposes if the amount is used to achieve the purposes of 
this Act. 
‘‘(e) MATCHING FUNDS.—Notwithstanding any other provision 
of law, any funds transferred to an Indian tribe under this Act 
shall be treated as non-Federal funds for purposes of meeting 
matching requirements under any other Federal law, except those 
administered by the Department of Labor or the Department of 
Health and Human Services. 
‘‘(f) CLAIMS.—The following provisions of law shall apply to 
plans approved under this Act: 
‘‘(1) Section 314 of the Department of the Interior and 
Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1991 (Public Law 101– 
512; 104 Stat. 1959). 
‘‘(2) Chapter 171 of title 28 (commonly known as the ‘Fed-
eral Tort Claims Act’). 
‘‘(g) INTEREST OR OTHER INCOME.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—An Indian tribe shall be entitled to retain 
interest earned on any funds transferred to the tribe under 
an approved plan and such interest shall not diminish the 
amount of funds the Indian tribe is authorized to receive under 
the plan in the year the interest is earned or in any subsequent 
fiscal year. 
‘‘(2) PRUDENT
INVESTMENT.—Funds transferred under a 
plan shall be managed in accordance with the prudent invest-
ment standard.’’. 
SEC. 15. LABOR MARKET INFORMATION ON INDIAN WORK FORCE. 
Section 17(a) of the Indian Employment, Training and Related 
Services Act of 1992 (25 U.S.C. 3416(a)), as amended by section 
2 of this Act, is amended in the first sentence— 
(1) by striking ‘‘The Secretary’’ and all that follows through 
‘‘manner,’’ and inserting ‘‘The Secretary of Labor, in consulta-
tion with the Secretary, Indian tribes, and the Director of 
the Bureau of the Census, shall’’; and 
(2) by striking ‘‘, by gender,’’. 
SEC. 16. REPEALS; CONFORMING AMENDMENTS. 
(a) REPEALS.—Sections 15 and 16 of the Indian Employment, 
Training and Related Services Act of 1992 (25 U.S.C. 3414, 3415), 
as amended by section 2 of this Act, are repealed. 
(b) CONFORMING AMENDMENTS.—Sections 17 and 18 of the 
Indian Employment, Training and Related Services Act of 1992
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(25 U.S.C. 3416, 3417) (as amended by this Act) are redesignated 
as sections 15 and 16, respectively. 
SEC. 17. EFFECT OF ACT. 
Nothing in this Act or any amendment made by this Act— 
(1) affects any plan approved under the Indian Employ-
ment, Training and Related Services Act of 1992 (25 U.S.C. 
3401 et seq.) (as so redesignated) before the date of enactment 
of this Act; 
(2) requires any Indian tribe or tribal organization to 
resubmit a plan described in paragraph (1); or 
(3) modifies the effective period of any plan described in 
paragraph (1). 
Speaker of the House of Representatives. 
Vice President of the United States and
President of the Senate.