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Indian Issues: BIA's Distribution of Tribal Priority Allocations

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Report Type Reports and Testimonies
Report Date April 21, 1998
Report No. T-RCED-98-168
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Summary:

The Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) began efforts that evolved into the Tribal Priority Allocation (TPA) in the early 1970s. The goal was to give tribes an opportunity to set priorities and allocate funds for those activities that they wanted to fund, in consultation with BIA. GAO discusses (1) BIA's basis for distributing 1998 TPA funds; (2) total distributions of TPA funds in fiscal year 1998 and a per capita analysis of those distributions; (3) revenue and business income information reported by tribes under the Single Audit Act; and (4) what additional revenue and income information might be useful to Congress in deciding whether to distribute TPA funds, considering the total financial resources available to tribes, including possible barriers to collecting this information.

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