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110TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 1478 
To amend the Morris K. Udall Scholarship and Excellence in National Envi-
ronmental and Native American Public Policy Act of 1992 to provide 
funds for training in tribal leadership, management, and policy, and 
for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MARCH 12, 2007 
Mr. GRIJALVA (for himself, Mr. UDALL of Colorado, and Mr. PASTOR) intro-
duced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Edu-
cation and Labor, and in addition to the Committee on Natural Re-
sources, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in 
each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdic-
tion of the committee concerned 
A BILL 
To amend the Morris K. Udall Scholarship and Excellence 
in National Environmental and Native American Public 
Policy Act of 1992 to provide funds for training in 
tribal leadership, management, and policy, and for other 
purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. NATIVE NATIONS LEADERSHIP, MANAGEMENT, 
AND POLICY. 
(a) FINDINGS.—Congress finds that— 
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(1) the policy of the United States favors self- 
determination for Indian tribes; 
(2) consistent with the policy described in para-
graph (1), Indian tribes are increasingly taking con-
trol of the affairs of the tribes in order to realize in 
practice most of the status afforded the tribes in 
treaties, court decisions, and legislation; 
(3) as a result of the increasing control of the 
tribes, tribes require enhanced leadership prepara-
tion and greater access to information relating to re-
search and analysis of successful models for tribal 
government and business operations, similar to the 
information regularly available to Federal, State, 
and local government agencies; 
(4) enabling Indian tribes to develop strong 
leadership and governing policy is consistent with 
Federal policy supporting tribal self-determination 
and increases the likelihood that tribal governments 
will achieve political and economic self-determina-
tion; and 
(5) during the last 5 years, the Morris K. Udall 
Scholarship and Excellence in National Environ-
mental Policy Foundation, in cooperation with the 
Native Nations Institute at the University of Ari-
zona, pursuant to section 6(7) of the Morris K. 
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Udall Scholarship and Excellence in National Envi-
ronmental and Native American Public Policy Act of 
1992 (20 U.S.C. 5604(7)), has provided to Indian 
tribes the leadership and management training, pol-
icy analysis, and research of the quality and type re-
quired to assist Indian tribes to achieve self-deter-
mination. 
(b) DEFINITIONS.—Section 4 of the Morris K. Udall 
Scholarship and Excellence in National Environmental 
and Native American Public Policy Act of 1992 (20 
U.S.C. 5602) is amended— 
(1) by redesignating paragraphs (6) through 
(9) as paragraphs (7) through (10), respectively; 
and 
(2) by inserting after paragraph (5) the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘(6) the terms ‘Indian tribe’ and ‘tribe’ have 
the meaning given the term ‘Indian tribe’ in section 
4 of the Indian Self-Determination and Education 
Assistance Act (25 U.S.C. 450b);’’. 
(c) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—Section 
13 of the Morris K. Udall Scholarship and Excellence in 
National Environmental and Native American Public Pol-
icy Act of 1992 (20 U.S.C. 5609) is amended by striking 
subsection (c) and inserting the following: 
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‘‘(c) TRAINING IN TRIBAL LEADERSHIP, MANAGE-
MENT, AND POLICY.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—There is authorized to be 
appropriated to carry out section 6(7)— 
‘‘(A) $500,000 for each of fiscal years 
2008 and 2009; 
‘‘(B) $750,000 for fiscal year 2010; and 
‘‘(C) $1,000,000 for each of fiscal years 
2011 and 2012. 
‘‘(2) LIMITATIONS.—An appropriation made 
pursuant to this subsection shall not be subject to 
section 7(c).’’. 
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