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Indian Tribal Water Resources Development, Management, and Protection

Program Information

Popular name

Indian Tribal Water Resources

Program Number

15.519

Program objective

To increase opportunities for Indian tribes to develop, manage, and protect their water resources.

Program expenditures, by FY (2023 - 2025)

This chart shows obligations for the program by fiscal year. All data for this chart was provided by the administering agency and sourced from SAM.gov, USASpending.gov, and Treasury.gov.

For more information on each of these data sources, please see the About the data page.

Additional program information

  1. 2017

    Information not available. Projects were awarded for water system rehabilitation, groundwater monitoring, streamflow gaging, well drilling, water quality sampling and testing, water conservation planning, drought response planning, and water needs inventories and studies.

  2. 2018

    Information not available.

  3. 2019

    Projects were awarded for water system rehabilitation, groundwater monitoring, stream flow gauging, well drilling, water quality sampling and testing, water conservation planning, drought response planning, and water needs inventories and studies.

  4. 2020

    Rio Puerco bank stabilization, reconstruction of Santa Ana Indian Ditch, and San Andres-Glorieta aquifer test well.

  5. 2021

    Completion of strategic asset management plan for the Hopi, and water resource assessment of the Rio San Jose Basin.

  6. 2022

    Projects funded include, but not limited to the following types of activities: Irrigation and water system improvements, water quality testing, drought response planning and response, water resource modeling, aquifer studies, needs assessments, master plans, water system planning and design, and minor infrastructure rehabilitation and replacement.

  7. 2024

    Twenty-three technical assistance projects were funded to seventeen different Tribal Organizations to assist in water resource development and management.

Single Audit Applies (2 CFR Part 200 Subpart F):

For additional information on single audit requirements for this program, review the current Compliance Supplement.

OMB is working with the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) and agency offices of inspectors general to include links to relevant oversight reports. This section will be updated once this information is made available.

43 CFR 12 and 2 CFR 200, Subparts E and F. These documents may also be obtained by contacting the Bureau of Reclamation Office listed below.

  1. Consolidated Appropriations Resolution, 2003, Division D - Energy and Water Development Appropriations, Title II, Sec. 201, P. L. 108-7 (43 USC Sec. 373d).
  2. VIII -- Committee on Indian Affairs, 80004, Inflation Reduction Act of 2022; EMERGENCY DROUGHT RELIEF FOR TRIBES.. Pub. L. 117, 169.