(A) MONITOR
RECONCILIATION
OF
TRUST
ACCOUNTS.—The Special Trustee shall monitor
the reconciliation of tribal and Individual In-
dian Money trust accounts to ensure that the
Bureau provides the account holders, with a fair
and accurate accounting of all trust accounts.
(B) INVESTMENTS.—The Special Trustee
shall ensure that the Bureau establishes appro-
priate policies and procedures, and develops nec-
essary systems, that will allow it—
(i) properly to account for and invest,
as well as maximize, in a manner consist-
ent with the statutory restrictions imposed
on the Secretary’s investment options, the
return on the investment of all trust fund
monies, and
(ii) to prepare accurate and timely re-
ports to account holders (and others, as re-
quired) on a periodic basis regarding all
collections, disbursements, investments, and
return on investments related to their ac-
counts.
(C) OWNERSHIP
AND
LEASE
DATA.—The
Special Trustee shall ensure that the Bureau es-
tablishes policies and practices to maintain com-
plete, accurate, and timely data regarding the
ownership and lease of Indian lands.
(3) BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT.—The Spe-
cial Trustee shall ensure that the Bureau of Land
Management establishes policies and practices ade-
quate to enforce compliance with Federal require-
ments for drilling, production, accountability, envi-
ronmental protection, and safety with respect to the
lease of Indian lands.
(4) MINERALS
MANAGEMENT
SERVICE.—The
Special Trustee shall ensure that the Minerals Man-
agement Service establishes policies and practices to
enforce compliance by lessees of Indian lands with all
requirements for timely and accurate reporting of
production and payment of lease royalties and other
revenues, including the audit of leases to ensure that
lessees are accurately reporting production levels and
calculating royalty payments.
(c) COORDINATION OF POLICIES.—
(1) IN GENERAL.—The Special Trustee shall en-
sure that—
(A) the policies, procedures, practices, and
systems of the Bureau, the Bureau of Land Man-
agement, and the Minerals Management Service
related to the discharge of the Secretary’s trust
responsibilities are coordinated, consistent, and
integrated, and
(B) the Department prepares comprehensive
and coordinated written policies and procedures
for each phase of the trust management business
cycle.
(2) STANDARDIZED PROCEDURES.—The Special
Trustee shall ensure that the Bureau imposes stand-
ardized trust fund accounting procedures throughout
the Bureau.
(3) INTEGRATION OF LEDGER WITH INVESTMENT
SYSTEM.—The Special Trustee shall ensure that the
trust fund investment, general ledger, and subsidiary
accounting systems of the Bureau are integrated and
that they are adequate to support the trust fund in-
vestment needs of the Bureau.
(4) INTEGRATION
OF
LAND
RECORDS, TRUST
FUNDS ACCOUNTING, AND ASSET MANAGEMENT SYS-
TEMS AMONG AGENCIES.—The Special Trustee shall
ensure that—
(A) the land records system of the Bureau
interfaces with the trust fund accounting system,
and
(B) the asset management systems of the
Minerals Management Service and the Bureau of
Land Management interface with the appro-
priate asset management and accounting systems
of the Bureau, including ensuring that—
(i) the Minerals Management Service
establishes policies and procedures that will
allow it to properly collect, account for, and
disburse to the Bureau all royalties and
other revenues generated by production from
leases on Indian lands; and
(ii) the Bureau of Land Management
and the Bureau provide Indian landholders
with accurate and timely reports on a peri-
odic basis that cover all transactions related
to leases of Indian resources.
(5) TRUST MANAGEMENT PROGRAM BUDGET.—
(A) DEVELOPMENT AND SUBMISSION.—The
Special Trustee shall develop for each fiscal year,
with the advice of program managers of each of-
fice within the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Bureau
of Land Management and Minerals Management
Service that participates in trust management,
including the management of trust funds or nat-
ural resources, or which is charged with any re-
sponsibility under the comprehensive strategic
plan prepared under subsection (a) of this sec-
tion, a consolidated Trust Management program
budget proposal that would enable the Secretary
to efficiently and effectively discharge his trust
responsibilities and to implement the comprehen-
sive strategic plan, and shall submit such budget
proposal to the Secretary, the Director of the Of-
fice of Management and Budget, and to the Con-
gress.
(B) DUTY
OF
CERTAIN
PROGRAM
MAN-
AGERS.—Each program manager participating
in trust management or charged with respon-
sibilities under the comprehensive strategic plans
shall transmit his office’s budget request to the
Special Trustee at the same time as such request
is submitted to his superiors (and before submis-
sion to the Office of Management and Budget) in
the preparation of the budget of the President
submitted to the Congress under section 1105(a)
of title 31, United States Code.
(C) CERTIFICATION OF ADEQUACY OF BUDG-
ET REQUEST.—The Special Trustee shall—
(i) review each budget request submit-
ted under subparagraph (B);
(ii) certify in writing as to the ade-
quacy of such request to discharge, effec-
tively and efficiently, the Secretary’s trust
responsibilities and to implement the com-
prehensive strategic plan; and
(iii) notify the program manager of
the Special Trustee’s certification under
clause (ii).
(D) MAINTENANCE OF RECORDS.—The Spe-
cial Trustee shall maintain records of certifi-
cations made under paragraph (3)(B).
(E) LIMITATION
ON
REPROGRAMMING
OR
TRANSFER.—No program manager shall submit,
and no official of the Department of the Interior
may 
approve 
or 
otherwise 
authorize, 
a
reprogramming or transfer request with respect
to any funds appropriated for trust management
which is included in the Trust Management Pro-
gram Budget unless such request has been ap-
proved by the Special Trustee.
(d) PROBLEM RESOLUTION.—The Special Trustee
shall provide such guidance as necessary to assist Depart-
ment personnel in identifying problems and options for re-
solving problems, and in implementing reforms to Depart-
ment, Bureau, Bureau of Land Management, and Minerals
Management Service policies, procedures, systems and prac-
tices.