highway safety on indian reservations

highway safety on indian reservations Sec. 207. (a) Section 402 of title 23 of the United States Code is amended by adding a new subsection (i) as follows: “(i) For the purpose of the application of this section on Indian reservations, ‘State’ and ‘Governor of a State’ includes the Secretary of the Interior and ‘political subdivision of a State’ includes an Indian tribe: Provided, That, notwithstanding the provisions of subparagraph (C) of subsection (b)(1) hereof, 95 per centum of the funds apportioned to the Secretary of the Interior after date of enactment, shall be expended by Indian tribes to carry out highway safety programs within their jurisdictions: And provided further, That the provisions of subparagraph (E) of subsection (b)(1) hereof shall be 87 Stat. 286applicable except in those tribal jurisdictions in which the Secretary determines such programs would not be practicable.” (b) Subsection (d) of section 402 of title 23, United States Code, is amended by inserting before the period at the end of the first sentence thereof the following: “and except that, in the case of a local highway safety program carried out by an Indian tribe, if the Secretary is satisfied that an Indian tribe does not have sufficient funds available to meet the non-Federal share of the cost of such program, he may increase the Federal share of the cost thereof payable under this Act to the extent necessary”.