The board shall:

1. A. adopt rules governing terms, conditions and priorities for providing financial assistance to tribes, including developing application and evaluation procedures and forms and qualifications for applicants and for projects;
2. B. provide financial assistance to tribes for qualified projects on terms and conditions established by the board;

3. C. authorize funding for qualified projects, including:

   1. (1) planning, designing, constructing, improving, expanding or equipping water and wastewater facilities, major water systems, electrical power lines, communications infrastructure, roads, health infrastructure, emergency response facilities and infrastructure needed to encourage economic development;
   2. (2) developing engineering feasibility reports for infrastructure projects;
   3. (3) inspecting construction of qualified projects;
   4. (4) providing special engineering services;
   5. (5) completing environmental assessments or archaeological clearances and other surveys for infrastructure projects;
   6. (6) acquiring land, easements or rights of way; and
   7. (7) paying legal costs and fiscal agent fees associated with development of qualified projects.

History: 1978 Comp., § 9-21-21, enacted by Laws 2005, ch. 146, § 5; recompiled as § 6-29-5 by Laws 2008, ch. 81, § 4.

ANNOTATIONS

Temporary provisions. — Laws 2026, ch. 71, § 75, provided that for fiscal years 2026 and 2027, the tribal infrastructure board shall provide up to fifteen percent of available annual funds for any single project. The board shall make every effort to award funding to qualifying projects in amounts sufficient to complete funding for the projects, after accounting for other funding already secured for those projects.