between the United States and that tribe, or that tribe’s 
ability to access future appropriations. 
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no funds 
available to the Bureau of Indian Education, other than 
the amounts provided herein for assistance to public 
schools under 25 U.S.C. 452 et seq., shall be available to 
support the operation of any elementary or secondary 
school in the State of Alaska. 
No funds available to the Bureau of Indian Edu-
cation shall be used to support expanded grades for any 
school or dormitory beyond the grade structure in place 
or approved by the Secretary of the Interior at each school 
in the Bureau of Indian Education school system as of 
October 1, 1995, except that the Secretary of the Interior 
may waive this prohibition to support expansion of up to 
one additional grade when the Secretary determines such 
waiver is needed to support accomplishment of the mission 
of the Bureau of Indian Education, or more than one 
grade to expand the elementary grade structure for Bu-
reau-funded schools with a K–2 grade structure on Octo-
ber 1, 1996. Appropriations made available in this or any 
prior Act for schools funded by the Bureau shall be avail-
able, in accordance with the Bureau’s funding formula, 
only to the schools in the Bureau school system as of Sep-
tember 1, 1996, and to any school or school program that 
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was reinstated in fiscal year 2012. Funds made available 
under this Act may not be used to establish a charter 
school at a Bureau-funded school (as that term is defined 
in section 1141 of the Education Amendments of 1978 
(25 U.S.C. 2021)), except that a charter school that is 
in existence on the date of the enactment of this Act and 
that has operated at a Bureau-funded school before Sep-
tember 1, 1999, may continue to operate during that pe-
riod, but only if the charter school pays to the Bureau 
a pro rata share of funds to reimburse the Bureau for 
the use of the real and personal property (including buses 
and vans), the funds of the charter school are kept sepa-
rate and apart from Bureau funds, and the Bureau does 
not assume any obligation for charter school programs of 
the State in which the school is located if the charter 
school loses such funding. Employees of Bureau-funded 
schools sharing a campus with a charter school and per-
forming functions related to the charter school’s operation 
and employees of a charter school shall not be treated as 
Federal employees for purposes of chapter 171 of title 28, 
United States Code. 
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, including 
section 113 of title I of appendix C of Public Law 106– 
113, if in fiscal year 2003 or 2004 a grantee received indi-
rect and administrative costs pursuant to a distribution 
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formula based on section 5(f) of Public Law 101–301, the 
Secretary shall continue to distribute indirect and admin-
istrative cost funds to such grantee using the section 5(f) 
distribution formula. 
Funds available under this Act may not be used to 
establish satellite locations of schools in the Bureau school 
system as of September 1, 1996, except that the Secretary 
may waive this prohibition in order for an Indian tribe 
to provide language and cultural immersion educational 
programs for non-public schools located within the juris-
dictional area of the tribal government which exclusively 
serve tribal members, do not include grades beyond those 
currently served at the existing Bureau-funded school, 
provide an educational environment with educator pres-
ence and academic facilities comparable to the Bureau- 
funded school, comply with all applicable Tribal, Federal, 
or State health and safety standards, and the Americans 
with Disabilities Act, and demonstrate the benefits of es-
tablishing operations at a satellite location in lieu of incur-
ring extraordinary costs, such as for transportation or 
other impacts to students such as those caused by busing 
students extended distances: Provided, That no funds 
available under this Act may be used to fund operations, 
maintenance, rehabilitation, construction, or other facili-
ties-related costs for such assets that are not owned by 
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the Bureau: Provided further, That the term ‘‘satellite 
school’’ means a school location physically separated from 
the existing Bureau school by more than 50 miles but that 
forms part of the existing school in all other respects. 
Funds made available for Tribal Priority Allocations 
within Operation of Indian Programs and Operation of In-
dian Education Programs may be used to execute re-
quested adjustments in tribal priority allocations initiated 
by an Indian Tribe. 
OFFICE OF THE SPECIAL TRUSTEE FOR AMERICAN 
INDIANS 
FEDERAL TRUST PROGRAMS 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For the operation of trust programs for Indians by 
direct expenditure, contracts, cooperative agreements, 
compacts, and grants, $111,286,000, to remain available 
until expended, of which not to exceed $17,867,000 from 
this or any other Act, may be available for historical ac-
counting: Provided, That funds for trust management im-
provements and litigation support may, as needed, be 
transferred to or merged with the Bureau of Indian Af-
fairs, ‘‘Operation of Indian Programs’’ and Bureau of In-
dian Education, ‘‘Operation of Indian Education Pro-
grams’’ accounts; the Office of the Solicitor, ‘‘Salaries and 
Expenses’’ account; and the Office of the Secretary, ‘‘De-
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partmental Operations’’ account: Provided further, That 
funds made available through contracts or grants obli-
gated during fiscal year 2023, as authorized by the Indian 
Self-Determination Act of 1975 (25 U.S.C. 5301 et seq.), 
shall remain available until expended by the contractor or 
grantee: Provided further, That notwithstanding any other 
provision of law, the Secretary shall not be required to 
provide a quarterly statement of performance for any In-
dian trust account that has not had activity for at least 
15 months and has a balance of $15 or less: Provided fur-
ther, That the Secretary shall issue an annual account 
statement and maintain a record of any such accounts and 
shall permit the balance in each such account to be with-
drawn upon the express written request of the account 
holder: Provided further, That not to exceed $100,000 is 
available for the Secretary to make payments to correct 
administrative errors of either disbursements from or de-
posits to Individual Indian Money or Tribal accounts after 
September 30, 2002: Provided further, That erroneous 
payments that are recovered shall be credited to and re-
main available in this account for this purpose: Provided 
further, That the Secretary shall not be required to rec-
oncile Special Deposit Accounts with a balance of less than 
$500 unless the Office of the Special Trustee receives 
proof of ownership from a Special Deposit Accounts claim-
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