25 Cfr 46.30

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25 CFR 46.30

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Bureau of Indian Affairs, Interior

§ 46.30

for fiscal accountability and appropriate direct services documentation.
Response to this request is necessary
to obtain or retain a benefit. Public reporting burden for this form is estimated to average 4 hours per response
including time for reviewing instructions, gathering, maintaining data,
completing and reviewing the form. Direct comments regarding the burden
estimate or any other aspect of this
form to the BIA Information Collection
Clearance Officer, 1849 C Street NW.,
Washington, DC 20240.
[67 FR 13570, Mar. 25, 2002]

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§ 46.10 Eligible activities.
(a) Subject to availability of funds,
funds appropriated for the BIA’s Adult
Education Program may be used to
support local projects or programs designed to:
(1) Enable Indian adults to acquire
basic educational skills, including literacy;
(2) Enable Indian adults to continue
their education through the secondary
school level;
(3)
Establish
career
education
projects intended to improve employment opportunities;
(4) Provide educational services or
instruction for elderly, disabled, or incarcerated Indian adults;
(5) Prepare individuals to benefit
from occupational training; and
(6) Teach employment-related skills.
(b) Funds should not be used to support programs designed solely to prepare Indian adults to enter a specific
occupation or cluster of closely related
occupations.
(c) The Adult Education Program
must be implemented in accordance
with a plan established by the tribe(s)
affected by the program. The tribe(s)
may determine to set standards in addition to those established in this part.
§ 46.20 Program requirements.
(a) The Adult Education Office will
implement the program or project that
is designed to address the needs of the
Indian adults in the service area. To
determine the needs of Indian adults in
the area, the Adult Education Office
must consider:
(1)
Elementary/secondary
school
dropout or absentee rates;

(2) Average grade level completed;
(3) Unemployment rates; and
(4) Other appropriate measures.
(b) The Adult Education Office, to ensure efforts that no duplication of services exists, will identify other services
in the area, including those offered by
Federal, State and Tribal entities, that
are designed to meet the same needs as
those to be addressed by the project,
and the number of Indian adults who
receive those services.
(c) The Adult Education Office must
establish and maintain an evaluation
plan.
(1) The plan must be designed to
measure the project’s effectiveness in
meeting each objective and the impact
of the project on the adults involved;
and
(2) The plan must provide procedures
for periodic assessment of the progress
of the project and, if necessary, modification of the project as a result of
that assessment.
(d) Subject to the availability of
funds, the project is to be supported
under the funding level established for
Adult Education in the formulation of
the budget under the TPA process.
§ 46.30 Records and reporting requirements.
(a) The Adult Education Office will
annually submit a report on the previous project year’s activities to the
Director, Office of Indian Education
Programs. The report must include the
following information:
(1) The type of eligible activity,
under § 46.10, conducted under the
project(s);
(2) The number of participants acquiring the GED, high school diploma,
and other certificates of performance;
and
(3) A narrative summary of the activities conducted under the project.
(b) Each Adult Education Office
must:
(1) Submit any records and information that the Director requires in connection with the administration of the
program; and
(2) Comply with any requirements
that the Director may impose to ensure the accuracy of the reports required by this part.

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25 CFR Ch. I (4–1–07 Edition)

Subpart B [Reserved]
PART 47—UNIFORM DIRECT FUNDING AND SUPPORT FOR BUREAUOPERATED SCHOOLS
Sec.
47.1 What is the purpose of this part?
47.2 What definitions apply to terms in this
part?
47.3 How does a Bureau-operated school find
out how much funding it will receive?
47.4 When does OIEP provide funding?
47.5 What is the school supervisor responsible for?
47.6 Who has access to local education financial records?
47.7 What are the expenditure limitations
for Bureau-operated schools?
47.8 Who develops the local educational financial plans?
47.9 What are the minimum requirements
for the local educational financial plan?
47.10 How is the local educational financial
plan developed?
47.11 Can these funds be used as matching
funds for other Federal programs?
47.12 Information collection.
AUTHORITY: Pub. L. 107–110, 115 Stat. 1425.
SOURCE: 70 FR 22221, Apr. 28, 2005, unless
otherwise noted.

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§ 47.1 What is the purpose of this part?
This part contains the requirements
for developing local educational financial plans that Bureau-operated schools
need in order to receive direct funding
from the Bureau of Indian Affairs
under section 1127 of the Act.
§ 47.2 What definitions apply to terms
in this part?
Act means the No Child Left Behind
Act, Public Law 107–110, enacted January 8, 2002. The No Child Left Behind
Act reauthorizes and amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act
(ESEA) and the amended Education
Amendments of 1978.
Budget means that element in the
local educational financial plan which
shows all costs of the plan by discrete
programs and sub-cost categories.
Bureau means the Bureau of Indian
Affairs in the Department of the Interior.
Consultation means soliciting and recording the opinions of Bureau-operated school boards regarding each element of the local educational financial

plan and incorporating these opinions
to the greatest degree feasible in the
development of the local educational
financial plan at each stage.
Director means the Director, Office of
Indian Education Programs.
Local educational financial plan means
the plan that:
(1) Programs dollars for educational
services for a particular Bureau-operated school; and
(2) Has been ratified in an action of
record by the local school board or determined by the superintendent under
the appeals process in 25 CFR part 2.
OIEP means the Office of Indian Education Programs in the Bureau of Indian Affairs of the Department of the
Interior.
Secretary means the Secretary of the
Interior or a designated representative.
§ 47.3 How does a Bureau-operated
school find out how much funding
it will receive?
The Office of Indian Education Programs (OIEP) will notify each Bureauoperated school in writing of the annual funding amount it will receive as
follows:
(a) No later than July 1 OIEP will let
the Bureau-operated school know the
amount that is 80 percent of its funding; and
(b) No later than September 30 OIEP
will let the Bureau-operated school
know the amount of the remaining 20
percent.
§ 47.4 When does OIEP provide funding?
By July 1 of each year OIEP will
make available for obligation 80 percent of the funds for the fiscal year
that begins on the following October 1.
§ 47.5 What is the school supervisor responsible for?
Each Bureau-operated school’s school
supervisor has the responsibilities in
this section. The school supervisor
must do all of the following:
(a) Ensure that the Bureau-operated
school spends funds in accordance with
the local educational financial plan, as
ratified or amended by the school
board;

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