§ 1521. — Indian Business Development Program; establishment; statement of purpose.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 25USC1521]
TITLE 25--INDIANS
CHAPTER 17--FINANCING ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OF INDIANS AND INDIAN
ORGANIZATIONS
SUBCHAPTER IV--INDIAN BUSINESS GRANTS
Sec. 1521. Indian Business Development Program; establishment;
statement of purpose
There is established within the Department of the Interior the
Indian Business Development Program whose purpose is to stimulate and
increase Indian entrepreneurship and employment by providing equity
capital through nonreimbursable grants made by the Secretary of the
Interior to Indians and Indian tribes to establish and expand profit-
making Indian-owned economic enterprises on or near reservations.
(Pub. L. 93-262, title IV, Sec. 401, Apr. 12, 1974, 88 Stat. 82.)