A bill to provide for the transfer of certain funds to the Secretary of the Interior for the benefit of certain members of the Crow Tribe.
PL 100-318 (S.2273), enacted 05/13/1988

PUBLIC LAW 100-318—MAY 13, 1988 
102 STAT. 469 
Public Law 100-318 
100th Congress 
An Act 
To provide for the transfer of certain funds to the Secretary of the Interior for the 
May 13, 1988 
benefit of certain members of the Crow Tribe. 
[S. 2273] 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. TRANSFER OF FUNDS. 
(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Secretary of Grants. 
Health and Human Services shall transfer to the Secretary of the 
Interior $180,000 of the funds appropriated to provide a grant to the 
Crow Tribe under section 2604(d) of the Low-Income Home Energy 
Assistance Act of 1981 (42 U.S.C. 8623(d)) for fiscal year 1988. 
(b) The funds transferred under this section and any other fiscal 
year 1988 funds, appropriated pursuant to the Low-Income Home 
Energy Assistance Program, which have been retained by the Sec-
retary of Health and Human Services and which have been allo-
cated, but not distributed, for the benefit of the Crow Tribe, shall 
remain available for that purpose until expended. 
SEC. 2. USE OF TRANSFERRED FUNDS. 
The Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Health and Contracts. 
Human Services shall enter into an Interagency Agreement for the 
administration on an expedited basis of the funds transferred under 
section 1. The Agreement shall include assurances that the Sec-
retary of the Interior shall follow the requirements contained in 
paragraphs (1), (2), (5), (7), (8), and (13) of subsection 2605(b) of the 
Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Act of 1981 and such terms 
regarding the provision of technical assistance as the Secretaries 
may deem necessary. All such funds shall be used to provide, 
through the Crow Agency Social Services Program of the Bureau of 
Indian Affairs, the assistance and benefits otherwise available 
under the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Act of 1981 to 
households who meet the eligibility criteria established by the Crow 
Tribe in its grant application for fiscal year 1988 and the agreement 
between the State of Montana and the Crow Tribe for such year. 
There shall be equitable consideration of claims or applications Claims, 
involving all forms of energy. If direct vendor payments are made, 
the vendor shall agree to refrain from termination of service to an 
eligible household until such time as all administrative actions 
involving withholding of fiscal year 1988 grants under the Low-
Income Home Energy Assistance Act of 1981 from the Crow Tribe 
have been resolved. The provisions of the Interagency Agreement 
shall be in lieu of any other legal requirements that would otherwise 
be applicable to the administration of such funds or the assistance 
and benefits to be provided with such funds. 
102 STAT. 470 
PUBLIC LAW 100-318—MAY 13, 1988 
SEC. 3. CONSTRUCTION. 
Nothing in this Act may be construed to affect administrative 
actions relating to grants received by the Crow Tribe under section 
2604(d) of the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Act of 1981 (42 
U.S.C. 8623(d)) for fiscal year 1988 or preceding fiscal years or the 
eligibility of the Crow Tribe to receive a grant for fiscal year 1989, or 
any succeeding fiscal year. 
Approved May 13, 1988. 
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY—S. 2273: 
SENATE REPORTS: No. 100-315 (Select Comm. on Indian Affairs). 
CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, Vol. 134 (1988): 
Apr. 18, considered and passed Senate. 
Apr. 28, considered and passed House, amended. Senate concurred in House 
amendment.