Contract funding and indirect costs

The amount of funds provided under the terms of self-determination contracts entered into pursuant to this chapter shall not be less than the appropriate Secretary would have otherwise provided for the operation of the programs or portions thereof for the period covered by the contract, without regard to any organizational level within the Department of the Interior or the Department of Health and Human Services, as appropriate, at which the program, function, service, or activity or portion thereof, including supportive administrative functions that are otherwise contractable, is operated.

( Pub. L. 93–638, title I, § 106 , as added Pub. L. 100–472, title II, § 205 , Oct. 5, 1988 , 102 Stat. 2292 ; amended Pub. L. 101–301, § 2(a)(8) , (9), May 24, 1990 , 104 Stat. 207 ; Pub. L. 101–644, title II, § 203(a) , Nov. 29, 1990 , 104 Stat. 4666 ; Pub. L. 103–413, title I, § 102(14) –(19), Oct. 25, 1994 , 108 Stat. 4257–4259 ; Pub. L. 105–362, title VIII, § 801(g) , Nov. 10, 1998 , 112 Stat. 3288 ; Pub. L. 106–260, § 9 , Aug. 18, 2000 , 114 Stat. 733 ; Pub. L. 116–180, title II, § 204 , Oct. 21, 2020 , 134 Stat. 880 .)