Assistance program
Indian Tribal Water Resources Development, Management, and Protection
$224.5 Million committed in FY2018–FY2026
- Agency
- Bureau of Reclamation, Interior, Department of the
- Assistance
- Cooperative Agreements (Discretionary Grants);Direct Payments for Specified Use
- CFDA number
- 15.519
- What it does
- To increase opportunities for federally recognized tribes to develop, manage, and protect their water and water related resources.
- Who benefits
- Federally recognized Indian tribes in the 17 western states.
- Who applies
- Federally recognized Indian tribes, institutions of higher education, national Indian organizations, and tribal organizations, Native American Organizations pursuant to 25 USC 5304(e), that are located in the 17 western States identified in the Act of June 17, 1902, as amended; specifically, Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming.
- Authorized by
- Consolidated Appropriations Resolution, 2003, Division D - Energy and Water Development Appropriations, Title II, Sec. 201, P. L. 108-7 (43 USC Sec. 373d)
- Program site
- http://www.usbr.gov/native/ ↗
Committed by fiscal year
* FY2026 is year-to-date — the fiscal year is still in progress, so its total is still filling in. The striped band and dashed line mark that provisional stretch.
How the money flows
Committed dollars by how this program's money is paid out.
Direct payments
$5.4M
2%
Grants
$155.5M
69%
Top recipients
By dollars committed.
How to read these numbers
- Committed through this program
Money committed under this assistance listing (its CFDA program), counted in the year each action happened.
- How it's paid
Most programs pay out one way — a grant, or a direct payment to individuals; the flow bar only appears when a program genuinely mixes types.
- Some recipients aren't itemized
For entitlement programs like Social Security and Medicare, the government reports one aggregate instead of naming tens of millions of people, so the recipient roster isn't part of the public record.
- Awards, counted once
An award count is the number of distinct awards with at least one action that year — each counted once, however many times it was amended.
- The colored bars
Every bar on this page splits by how the money moves:
Direct payments