Personnel Practices: Propriety of Selected Personnel Actions at the Bureau of Indian Affairs : Report to the Chairman, Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, House of Representatives, and the Honorable John Melcher, U.S. Senate

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Page 12 - The Secretary of the Interior is directed to establish standards of health, age, character, experience, knowledge, and ability for Indians who may be appointed without regard to civil service laws, to the various positions maintained, now or hereafter, by the Indian Office, in the administration of functions or services affecting any Indian tribe. Such qualified Indians shall hereafter have the preference to appointment to vacancies in any such position.
Page 7 - As arranged with your offices, unless you publicly announce its contents earlier, we plan no further distribution of this report until 14 days after the date of this letter. At that time, we will send copies to the Secretary of Transportation, the Administrator of FHWA, the President of the Rails-to-Trails Conservancy, and other interested parties.
Page 2 - Indian service is to give Indians a greater participation in their own self-government, to further the government's trust obligation toward the Indian tribes, and to reduce the negative effect of having non-Indians administer matters that affect Indian tribal life.
Page 12 - Act of 1975, as amended, tribes can contract for specific federal programs and receive program funding and contract support funding. Contract support funds — which, as implemented by the Department of the Interior's Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) and the Department of Health and Human Services' (HHS) Indian Health Service (IHS), include funding for indirect costs, direct contract support costs, and startup costs — are provided to tribes to cover the costs of managing their contracts. Over the...
Page 13 - Indian preference if it is determined that under the circumstances such reassignment is necessary — (A) to assure the health or safety of the employee or...

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