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Agency Budget Summary
Department of the Interior
Bureau of Indian Affairs
I. Resource Summary
II. Methodology
- Requests are based on funding to support law enforcement related activities such as training for drug crisis response as well as eradication. In addition, percentages of programs in Tribal Courts, Judicial Services, Social Services (emergency shelters), Law Enforcement, and Detention Construction are all assumed to be drug control related.
III. Program Summary
- The Bureau of Indian Affairs' mission is to fulfill its trust responsibilities and promote self-determination on behalf of tribal governments, American Indians and Alaska Natives. This mission is accomplished through the delivery of quality services and by maintaining government-to-government relationships within the spirit of Indian self-determination.
- The Bureau provides services directly, or through Self-Determination contracts, grants or compact agreements with Tribes, to more than 1.4 million Indians, Eskimos, and Aleuts who are members of more than 554 federally recognized Tribes across the nation. The Bureau is trustee to over 43 million acres of Tribally-owned land, more than 11 million acres of individually-owned land, and 443,000 acres of federally-owned land. The Bureau's organization consists of headquarters offices in Washington, D.C., and Albuquerque, NM, 12 area offices and 83 agency offices.
- The Bureau employs approximately 258 police officers and 83 criminal investigators. Tribes employ an estimated 1,250 police officers and criminal investigators. These law enforcement officers protect life and safety as well as provide drug enforcement for Indian tribes throughout the country.
- The Bureau continues to support the Strategy by providing law enforcement activities on reservations near U.S. borders with Mexico and Canada. The Bureau coordinates and works with the Departments of Defense and State and local law enforcement agencies for marijuana eradication and drug interdiction support. In addition, the Bureau has decentralized its Drug Enforcement Section and reassigned personnel to five district offices.
IV. Budget Summary
1999 Program
- The Bureau's antidrug resources total $17.5 million and 99 FTE in FY 1999. For FY 1999, Tribal law enforcement funds were transferred and consolidated with Bureau law enforcement funds provided under the Presidential Initiative on Law Enforcement in Indian Country. This initiative is a joint effort by the Bureau of Indian Affairs and the Department of Justice to curb the rising violence crime rate in Indian Country by increasing the number of law enforcement officers and the number of graduate/certified Indian Country Law Enforcement personnel.
Goal 2: Increase the safety of America's citizens by substantially reducing drug-related crime and violence.
- FY 1999 resources include $16.6 million which supports Goal 2 of the Strategy. The Bureau's primary drug-related law enforcement efforts will include the following:
- In cooperation with other federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies, the Bureau will continue the investigation and prosecution of the illegal distribution and sale of narcotics on Indian reservations.
- The Bureau's Drug Enforcement Branch will continue marijuana eradication efforts. Personnel of the Drug Enforcement Branch, which was formerly headquartered at the Indian Police Academy, Artesia, New Mexico, have been reassigned to one of the five regional offices. The relocated personnel, using their extensive investigative experience, will formulate and implement strategies to dismantle drug trafficking networks suppling illicit narcotics to Indian Country.
Goal 3: Reduce health and social costs to the public of illegal drug use.
- FY 1999 resources include $0.2 million which supports Goal 3 of the Strategy. This amount supports the Bureau's participation in the Department of the Interior's Drug-Free Workplace initiative.
Goal 4: Shield America's air, land, and sea frontiers from the drug threat.
- FY 1999 resources include $0.7 million which supports Goal 4 of the Strategy. This funding includes $0.5 million provided to the Tohono O'dham Nation for law enforcement assistance because their reservation borders Mexico, and an estimated $0.2 million in support provided by the Bureau's Office of Law Enforcement Services.
2000 Request
- The FY 2000 budget request is $17.9 million and 103 FTE for anti-drug program activities. These resources will allow BIA to continue its anti-drug program activities at the FY 1999 program level.
Goal 2: Increase the safety of America's citizens by substantially reducing drug-related crime and violence.
- The total drug control request for Goal 2 activities for FY 2000 is $16.6 million. This amount includes $15.6 million for special investigations, training, equipment and operations in support of anti-drug efforts, $0.9 million to support 31 Tribally contracted emergency shelters located at the local reservation level that serve substance abusers seeking assistance, and $0.1 million for judicial services located at the central office. The FY 2000 request will promote community-oriented policing and target drug problem areas. BIA will also support operations that target all levels of drug trafficking and drug crime. In addition, the Bureau will continue law enforcement training concerning investigation efforts.
Goal 3: Reduce health and social costs to the public of illegal drug use.
- The total drug control request for Goal 3 activities for FY 2000 is $0.6 million. This amount includes $0.2 million to continue the substance abuse program for employees in critical sensitive positions by maintaining funds to support a drug-free workplace and an additional $0.4 million for the establishment of the Office of Alcohol and Substance Abuse.
Goal 4: Shield America's air, land, and sea frontiers from the drug threat.
- The total drug control request for Goal 4 activities for FY 2000 is $0.7 million. The FY 2000 request will continue law enforcement support along the Southwest Border. This amount includes $0.5 million to be provided to the Tohono O'odham Nation for law enforcement assistance because their reservation borders Mexico, and an estimated $0.2 million in support provided by the Bureau's Office of Law Enforcement Services.
V. Program Accomplishments
- There are 31 fully operational emergency shelters located throughout Indian Country.
- Four juvenile detention facilities (Fort Peck, Ogala Sioux, Tuba City, Sac and Fox) and one juvenile/adult detention facility (Eagle Butte) have been constructed and are fully operational.
- The Bureau has provided outreach training to more than 200 police officers in marijuana eradication and highway interdiction.
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