---
kind: "section"
citation: "25 U.S.C. § 1406"
title: "25"
title_heading: "Indians"
number: "1406"
heading: "Rules and regulations"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/25/1406"
units:
  - "Chapter 16 — Distribution of Judgment Funds"
---

# §1406. Rules and regulations

- (a) **Promulgation—** The [Secretary](/usc/25/5130.md?p=1) shall promulgate rules and regulations to implement this chapter no later than the end of the one hundred and eighty-day period beginning on October 19, 1973. Among other things, such rules and regulations shall provide for adequate notice to all entities and persons who may receive funds under any [Indian](/usc/25/1934.md) judgment of all relevant procedures pursuant to this chapter concerning any such judgment.
- (b) **Publication in Federal Register—** No later than sixty days prior to the promulgation of such rules and regulations the [Secretary](/usc/25/5130.md?p=1) shall publish the proposed rules and regulations in the Federal Register.
- (c) **Hearings—** No later than thirty days prior to the promulgation of such rules and regulations, the [Secretary](/usc/25/5130.md?p=1) shall provide, with adequate public notice, the opportunity for hearings on the proposed rules and regulations, once published, to all interested parties.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 93–134, § 6, Oct. 19, 1973, 87 Stat. 468.)