Each existing contracting party must submit an annual report based on the JOM funding received and other contract-related reports as required by the BIE Director.

Existing contracting parties who receive Johnson-O'Malley funding must submit the following information in the annual report:

(a) General information about the contractor;

(b) General information about the number and names of the schools;

(c) The number of eligible Indian students who were served using amounts allocated under the contract during the previous fiscal year;

(d) An accounting of the amounts and purposes for which the contract funds were expended;

(e) Information on the conduct of the program;

(f) A quantitative evaluation of the effectiveness of the contract program in meeting the stated objectives contained in the educational plans; and

(g) A complete accounting of actual receipts at the end of the fiscal year for which the contract funds were expended.

All existing contracting parties must submit the annual report to the BIE Director on or before September 15 of each year and covering the previous academic year.

All existing contracting parties must send copies of the annual reports to the Indian Education Committee(s) and to the Tribe(s) under the contract at the same time as the reports are sent to the BIE Director.

Any existing contracting party that fails to submit the annual report will receive no amounts under this Act for the fiscal year following the academic year for which the annual report should have been submitted.

The BIE Director will provide existing contracting parties with timely information relating to:

(a) Initial and final reporting deadlines; and

(b) The consequences of failure to comply.

The Bureau will provide technical assistance and training on compliance with the reporting requirements to existing contracting parties. The Bureau will provide such technical assistance and training on an ongoing and timely basis.

(a) Existing contracting parties may request technical assistance and/or training by addressing the request in writing to the BIE Director.

(b) The BIE Director, or designee, will acknowledge receipt of a request for technical assistance and/or training.

(c) No later than 30 days after receiving the original request, the BIE Director will identify a point of contact and begin the process of providing technical assistance and/or training. The BIE Director and requesting contracting party will work together to identify the form, substance, and timeline for the assistance.

The existing contracting party is encouraged to request technical assistance and/or training before annual reporting requirements are due in order to avoid the consequences for failure to comply.

Except as provided in § 273.140(c) and (d) of this part, for four fiscal years following the date of enactment of the JOM Modernization Act (December 31, 2018) an existing contracting party's funding will not be reduced to a level that is less than the amount of funding per eligible Indian student that the existing contracting party received for Fiscal Year 2017 (the fiscal year preceding the date of enactment of the Johnson-O'Malley Modernization Act).

If the funds available under the Johnson-O'Malley Act for a fiscal year are insufficient to pay the full amounts that all existing contracting parties are eligible to receive under for the fiscal year, the Secretary will ratably reduce those amounts for the fiscal year.

Beginning December 31, 2022 (4 years after the December 31, 2018, date of enactment of the JOM Modernization Act), no contracting party may receive for a fiscal year more than a 10 percent decrease in funding per eligible Indian student from the previous fiscal year.