100 STAT. 3207-139
25 USC 450 note.
PUBLIC LAW 99-570—OCT. 27, 1986
(5) The term "service unit" means an administrative entity within the Indian Health Service or a tribe or tribal organization operating health care programs or facilities with funds from the Indian Health Service under the Indian Self-Determination Act through which the services are provided, directly or by contract, to the eligible Indian population within a defined geographic area.
PART II—COORDINATION OF RESOURCES AND PROGRAMS 25 USC 2411.
SEC. 4205. INTER-DEPARTMENTAL MEMORANDUM OF AGREEMENT.
(a) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 120 days after the date of enactment of this subtitle, the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Health and Human Services shall develop and enter into a Memorandum of Agreement which shall, among other things— (1) determine and dejRne the scope of the problem of alcohol and substance abuse for Indian tribes and their members and its financial and human costs, and specifically identify such problems affecting Indian youth, (2) identify— (A) the resources and programs of the Bureau of Indian Affairs and Indian Health Service, and If* (B) other Federal, tribal, State and local, and private resources and programs, which would be relevant to a coordinated effort to combat alcohol and substance abuse among Indian people, including those programs and resources made available by this subtitle, (3) develop and establish appropriate minimum standards for each agency's program responsibilities under the Memorandum of Agreement which may be— (A) the existing Federal or State standards in effect, or (B) in the absence of such standards, new standards which will be developed and established in consultation with Indian tribes, (4) coordinate the Bureau of Indian Affairs and Indian Health Service alcohol and substance abuse programs existing on the date of the enactment of this subtitle with programs or efforts established by this subtitle, (5) delineate the responsibilities of the Bureau of Indian Affairs and the Indian Health Service to coordinate alcohol and substance abuse-related services at the central, area, agency, and service unit levels, (6) direct Bureau of Indian Affairs agency and education superintendents, where appropriate, and the Indian Health Service service unit directors to cooperate fully with tribal requests made pursuant to section 4206, and (7) provide for an annual review of such agreements by the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Health and Human Services. Oi)) CHARACTER OF ACTIVITIES.—To the extent that there are new activities undertaken pursuant to this subtitle, those activities shall supplement, not supplant, activities, programs, and local actions that are ongoing on the date of the enactment of this subtitle. Such activities shall be undertaken in the manner least disruptive to tribal control, in accordance with the Indian Self-Determination and
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