§ 47. — Employment of Indian labor and purchase of products of Indian industry; participation in MentorProtege Program.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 25USC47]
TITLE 25--INDIANS
CHAPTER 2--OFFICERS OF INDIAN AFFAIRS
Sec. 47. Employment of Indian labor and purchase of products of
Indian industry; participation in Mentor-Protege Program
So far as may be practicable Indian labor shall be employed, and
purchases of the products (including, but not limited to printing,
notwithstanding any other law) of Indian industry may be made in open
market in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior. Participation
in the Mentor-Protege Program established under section 831 of the
National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1991 (10 U.S.C. 2301
note) or receipt of assistance pursuant to any developmental assistance
agreement authorized under such program shall not render Indian labor or
Indian industry ineligible to receive any assistance authorized under
this section. For the purposes of this section--
(1) no determination of affiliation or control (either direct or
indirect) may be found between a protege firm and its mentor firm on
the basis that the mentor firm has agreed to furnish (or has
furnished) to its protege firm pursuant to a mentor-protege
agreement any form of developmental assistance described in
subsection (f) of section 831 of the National Defense Authorization
Act for Fiscal Year 1991 (10 U.S.C. 2301 note); and
(2) the terms ``protege firm'' and ``mentor firm'' have the
meaning given such terms in subsection (c) of such section 831.
(June 25, 1910, ch. 431, Sec. 23, 36 Stat. 861; Pub. L. 100-581, title
II, Sec. 206, Nov. 1, 1988, 102 Stat. 2940; Pub. L. 103-435, Sec. 14,
Nov. 2, 1994, 108 Stat. 4572.)
References in Text
Section 831 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal
Year 1991, referred to in text, is section 831 of Pub. L. 101-510, which
is set out as a note under section 2302 of Title 10, Armed Forces.
Codification
Section is based on proviso of first sentence of section 23 of act
of June 25, 1910. Remainder of first sentence of section 23 was
classified to section 93 of this title prior to repeal by act Oct. 10,
1940, ch. 851, Sec. 4, 54 Stat. 1112.
Prior Provisions
Provisions similar to those in this section were contained in act
Apr. 30, 1908, ch. 153, 35 Stat. 71, making appropriations for the
Indian Department.
Amendments
1994--Pub. L. 103-435 inserted at end ``Participation in the Mentor-
Protege Program established under section 831 of the National Defense
Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1991 (10 U.S.C. 2301 note) or receipt
of assistance pursuant to any developmental assistance agreement
authorized under such program shall not render Indian labor or Indian
industry ineligible to receive any assistance authorized under this
section. For the purposes of this section--
``(1) no determination of affiliation or control (either direct
or indirect) may be found between a protege firm and its mentor firm
on the basis that the mentor firm has agreed to furnish (or has
furnished) to its protege firm pursuant to a mentor-protege
agreement any form of developmental assistance described in
subsection (f) of section 831 of the National Defense Authorization
Act for Fiscal Year 1991 (10 U.S.C. 2301 note); and
``(2) the terms `protege firm' and `mentor firm' have the
meaning given such terms in subsection (c) of such section 831.''
1988--Pub. L. 100-581 inserted ``(including, but not limited to
printing, notwithstanding any other law)'' after ``products''.
Transfer of Functions
For transfer of functions of other officers, employees, and agencies
of Department of the Interior, with certain exceptions, to Secretary of
the Interior, with power to delegate, see Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 1950,
Secs. 1, 2, eff. May 24, 1950, 15 F.R. 3174, 64 Stat. 1262, set out in
the Appendix to Title 5, Government Organization and Employees.
Section Referred to in Other Sections
This section is referred to in sections 47a, 353, 406, 564h, 697,
747, 1616a, 1633 of this title; title 23 section 204.
