Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 95.djvu/539

 PUBLIC LAW 97-88—AUG. 13, 1981

95 STAT. 513

(B) determines that the members of such tribe or tribal organization would be better served by means of grants made directly to provide benefits under this subtitle; the Secretary shall reserve from amounts which would otherwise be allotted to such State under this subtitle for the fiscal year the amount determined under paragraph (2). (2) The Secretary shall reserve for the purpose of paragraph (1) from sums that would otherwise be allotted to such State not less than 100 percent of an amount which bears the same ratio to the State's allotment for the fiscal year involved as the population of all eligible Indians for whom a determination under this paragraph has been made bears to the population of all individuals eugible for assistance under this subtitle in such State. (3) The sums reserved by the Secretary on the basis of a determination under this subsection shall be granted to the Indian tribe or tribal organization serving the individuals for whom such a determination has been made. (4) In order for an Indian tribe or tribal organization to be eligible for an awsurd for a fiscal year under this subsection, it shall submit to the Secretary a plan for such fiscal year which meets such criteria as the Secretary may prescribe by r^iuation. (5) The terms Indian tribe and "tribal organization" mean those "Indian tribe," tribes, bands, or other organized groups of Indians recognized in the ^ wfon " State in which they reside or considered by the Secretary of the ^^ Interior to be an Indian tribe or an Indian organization for any purpose. APPLICATIONS AND REQUIREMENTS

SEC. 675. (a) Each State desiring to receive an allotment for a fiscal 42 USC 9904. year under this subtitle shall submit an application to the Secretary. Each such application shall be in such form as the Secretary shall require. Each such application shall contain assurances by the chief executive ofQcer of the State that the State will comply with subsection (b) and will meet the conditions enumerated in subsection (c). (b) After the expiration of the first fiscal year in which a State received funds under this subtitle, no funds shall be allotted to such State for any fiscal year under this subtitle unless the legislature of the State conducts public hearings on the proposed use and distribution of funds to be provided under this subtitle for such fiscal year. (c) As part of the annual application required by subsection (a]!, the chief executive officer of each State shall certify that the State agrees to— (1) use the funds available under this subtitle— (A) to provide a range of services and activities having a measurable and potentially major impact on causes of poverty in the community or those areas of the community where poverty is a particularly acute problem; (B) to provide activities designed to assist low-income participants including the elderly poor— (i) to secure and retain meaningful employment; (ii) to attain an adequate education; (iii) to make better use of available income; (iv) to obtain and maintain adequate housing and a suitable living environment; (v) to obtain emergency assistance through loans or grants to meet immediate and urgent individual and family needs, including the need for health services,

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