(A) contributes to the policy goals de-
scribed in section 2(b); and 
(B) continues to achieve compliance with 
all applicable high-road labor, equity, and envi-
ronmental conditions under subsection (d)(3). 
(2) REVOCATION.—The President shall revoke 
any public support provided under this section for a 
qualified investment program if the President deter-
mines that the qualified investment program— 
(A) fails to achieve compliance with sub-
paragraph (A) or (B) of paragraph (1); or 
(B) displaces workers or depresses wages 
or benefits due to increased costs associated 
with participating in the public support pro-
gram under this section. 
SEC. 6. TRIBAL SOVEREIGNTY. 
(a) RECOGNITION.—Congress recognizes that— 
(1) the authority, obligations, and fiduciary 
trust responsibilities of United States to provide pro-
grams and services to Indians Tribes and individual 
Indians have been established in— 
(A) Acts of Congress; 
(B) treaties; and 
(C) jurisprudence; and 
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(2) the United States and Indian Tribes have 
a unique legal and political relationship. 
(b) RESPONSIBILITIES
OF ADMINISTERING AGEN-
CIES.—The head of each administering agency shall, in 
any relevant agency actions— 
(1) establish, by regulation, a special initiative 
that reflects and supports the relationship between 
the United States and Indian Tribes described in 
subsection (a)(2); 
(2) confirm that each Indian Tribe may exercise 
full and inherent civil regulatory and adjudicatory 
authority over all land and resources within the exte-
rior boundaries of the reservation or other land sub-
ject to the jurisdiction of the Indian Tribe; 
(3) establish, by regulation, standards and pro-
cedural requirements— 
(A) to secure free, prior, and informed con-
sent of Indian Tribes— 
(i) to agency actions that affect In-
dian land, water, livelihoods, and culture 
(including off-reservation treaty-reserved 
rights to hunting, fishing, gathering, and 
protection of, and access to, sacred sites); 
and 
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(ii) on an ongoing basis, to any meas-
ure or other action carried out by the ad-
ministering agency under this Act; and 
(B) to include consideration of the tangible 
and intangible cultural heritage, intellectual 
property, and traditional Indigenous knowledge 
of Indian Tribes and Indigenous communities in 
agency actions and programs; 
(4) take into consideration the provisions and 
standards contained in the United Nations Declara-
tion on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, dated Sep-
tember 13, 2007, without qualification; 
(5)(A) strengthen and support Tribal sov-
ereignty by ensuring that all treaties and agreements 
with Indian Tribes and members of Indian Tribes 
and Indigenous communities are observed and re-
spected in their entirety; and 
(B) protect and enforce that sovereignty by tak-
ing effective measures to extend the fiduciary trust 
responsibilities of the United States to Indian Tribes 
to— 
(i) environmental, socioeconomic, health, 
education, and agricultural issues; and 
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(ii) trade issues between and among Indig-
enous communities, the United States, Canada, 
and Mexico; and 
(6) ensure that the standards, processes, and 
criteria for qualified investment programs of the ad-
ministering agency, and the allocation of funds 
under those qualified investment programs, shall 
incur obligations relating to a mandatory set-aside 
of investments and funding for Indian Tribes and 
Indigenous communities. 
SEC. 7. AGENCY ENFORCEMENT; GAO REPORT. 
(a) AGENCY ENFORCEMENT.—Not later than 2 years 
after the date on which public support is initially provided 
to an administering agency under this Act, the head of 
the administering agency shall promulgate regulations, in 
consultation with the Board, to ensure that each qualified 
investment program of the administering agency achieves 
compliance with applicable high-road labor, equity, and 
environmental conditions, in accordance with existing au-
thorities, by— 
(1) including in any contract with an imple-
menting entity those high-road labor, equity, and en-
vironmental conditions; 
(2) ensuring that public implementing entities 
receive funding to adequately ensure compliance 
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with applicable implementation, monitoring, compli-
ance, and enforcement requirements in a manner 
that avoids establishing any unfunded mandate for 
a Tribal, State, or local government agency; 
(3) certifying, on an annual basis, that all im-
plementing entities throughout the supply chain that 
benefit from support under the qualified investment 
program achieve compliance with all applicable high- 
road labor, equity, and environmental conditions; 
(4) issuing a warning and directives for correc-
tive action relating to instances of noncompliance 
with applicable high-road labor, equity, and environ-
mental conditions; 
(5) establishing a process for implementing en-
tities to appeal the classification of an action as non-
compliant with an applicable high-road labor, equity, 
or environmental condition; and 
(6) revoking public support from any imple-
menting entity that fails to rectify an instance of 
noncompliance with a high-road labor, equity, or en-
vironmental condition, as applicable— 
(A) for a major instance of noncompliance, 
by the date that is 60 days after the date of re-
ceipt of a warning relating to that instance 
under paragraph (4); or 
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