Montana Code Annotated 2023

TITLE 90. PLANNING, RESEARCH, AND DEVELOPMENT

CHAPTER 6. COMMUNITY IMPACT -- PLANNING AND ABATEMENT

Part 2. Coal Impacts -- Evaluation and Abatement Funding

Limitations On Grants

90-6-209. Limitations on grants. (1) The board may commit itself to the expenditure of funds for more than 1 year for a single project, but the board may not obligate funds not yet appropriated by the legislature. The total amount of grants to state agencies, except grants made pursuant to 90-6-205(4)(b), and Indian tribes may not exceed 7% of the total money allocated to the board during each fiscal year.

(2) A grant to an Indian tribe under 90-6-205 may not be approved by the board unless:

(a) the governing body of the tribe has agreed:

(i) to waive its immunity from suit on any issue specifically arising from the transaction of a grant obtained under this part; and

(ii) to the adjudication of any dispute arising out of the grant transaction in the district court of the first judicial district of the state of Montana; and

(b) approval of the transaction has been obtained from the secretary of the United States department of the interior whenever approval is necessary.

(3) (a) The board may not award a new grant to a local government that is in violation of 2-1-602 pursuant to the provisions of 2-1-605.

(b) For the purposes of this subsection (3), "local government" has the meaning provided in 2-1-601.

History: En. 50-1709 by Sec. 10, Ch. 502, L. 1975; R.C.M. 1947, 50-1809(part); amd. Sec. 4, Ch. 690, L. 1983; (2) En. Sec. 5, Ch. 690, L. 1983; (3) En. Sec. 6, Ch. 690, L. 1983; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 420, L. 1985; amd. Sec. 3, Ch. 619, L. 1985; amd. Sec. 6, Ch. 204, L. 1997; amd. Sec. 7, Ch. 101, L. 2021.