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42 USC § 3057f - Surplus educational facilities 

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identifier: "/us/usc/t42/s3057f"
source: "usc"
legal_status: "official_prima_facie"
title: "42 USC § 3057f - Surplus educational facilities"
title_number: 42
title_name: "THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE"
section_number: "3057f"
section_name: "Surplus educational facilities"
chapter_number: 35
chapter_name: "PROGRAMS FOR OLDER AMERICANS"
subchapter_number: "X"
subchapter_name: "GRANTS FOR NATIVE AMERICANS"
part_number: "A"
part_name: "Indian Program"
positive_law: false
currency: "119-84"
last_updated: "2026-04-17"
format_version: "1.1.0"
generator: "[email protected]"
source_credit: "(Pub. L. 89–73, title VI, § 615, as added Pub. L. 100–175, title I, § 171, Nov. 29, 1987, 101 Stat. 961.)"
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# § 3057f. Surplus educational facilities

**(a)** **Multipurpose senior centers** Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Secretary of the Interior through the Bureau of Indian Affairs shall make available surplus Indian educational facilities to tribal organizations, and nonprofit organizations with tribal approval, for use as multipurpose senior centers. Such centers may be altered so as to provide extended care facilities, community center facilities, nutrition services, child care services, and other supportive services.

**(b)** **Applications; submission; contents** Each eligible tribal organization desiring to take advantage of such surplus facilities shall submit an application to the Secretary of the Interior at such time and in such manner, and containing or accompanied by such information, as the Secretary of the Interior determines to be necessary to carry out the provisions of this section.

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**Source Credit**: (Pub. L. 89–73, title VI, § 615, as added Pub. L. 100–175, title I, § 171, Nov. 29, 1987, 101 Stat. 961.)

## Editorial Notes

### Prior Provisions

A prior section 3057f, , as added , , , related to payments, prior to the general amendment of this subchapter by . See .

## Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Section effective , except not applicable with respect to any area plan submitted under  or any State plan submitted under  and approved for any fiscal year beginning before , see section 701(a), (b) of , set out as an Effective Date of 1987 Amendment note under .