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 92 STAT. 2318

Plan, submittal to congressional committees.

Appropriation authorization.

PUBLIC LAW 95-561—NOV. 1, 1978 (f) Subject to subsections (d) and (e), the Secretary shall begin to implement the standards established under this section immediately upon the date of their establishment. Within one year of such date, and at each time thereafter that the annual budget request for Bureau educational services is presented, the Secretary shall submit to the appropriate committees of Congress a detailed plan to bring all Bureau and contract schools up to the level required by the applicable standards established under this section. Such plan shall include, but not be limited to, detailed information on the status of each school's educational program in relation to the applicable standards established under this section, specific cost estimates for meeting such standards at each school, and specific time lines for bringing each school up to the level required by such standards. (g) There are hereby authorized to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary, for academic program costs, in order to bring all Bureau and contract schools up to the level required by the applicable standards established under this section. NATIONAL CRITERIA FOR DORMITORY SITUATIONS

Boarding costs, study.

25 USC 2002.

Distributions to tribes and publication in Federal Register.

Plan, submittal to congressional committees.

Appropriation authorization.

SEC. 1122. (a) The Secretary, in consultation with the Assistant Secretary for Health, Education, and Welfare for Education, and in consultation with Indian organizations and tribes, shall conduct or cause to be conducted by contract with an Indian organization, a study of the costs applicable to boarding arrangements for Indian students provided in Bureau and contract schools, for the purpose of establishing national criterial for such dormitory situations. Such criteria shall include adult-child ratios, needs for counselors (including special needs related to off-reservation boarding arrangements), space, and privacy. (b) Within fifteen months of the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall propose such criteria, and shall distribute such proposed criteria to the tribes and publish such proposed criteria in the Federal Register for the purpose of receiving comments from the tribes and other interested parties. Within eighteen months of the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall establish final criteria, distribute such criteria to all the tribes, and publish such criteria in the Federal Register. The Secretary shall revise such criteria periodically as necessary. Prior to any revision of such criteria, the Secretary shall distribute such proposed revision to all the tribes, and publish such proposed revision in the Federal Register, for the purpose of receiving comments from the tribes and other interested parties. (c) The Secretary shall begin to implement the criteria established under this section immediately upon the date of their establishment. Within one year of such date, and at each time thereafter that the annual budget request for Bureau educational services is presented, the Secretary shall submit to the appropriate committees of Congress a detailed plan to bring all Bureau and contract boarding schools up to the criteria established under this section. Such plan shall include, but not be limited to, predictions for the relative need for each boarding school in the future, detailed information on the status of each school in relation to the criteria established under this section, specific cost estimates for meeting such criteria at each school, and specific time lines for bringing each school up to the level required by such criteria. (d) There are hereby authorized to be appropriated such sums as may he necessary in order to bring each school up to the level required by the criteria established under this section.

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