# Tribe or Tribal Organization Sponsor Option for Watershed Projects
> **Natural Resources Conservation Service** · Final rule. · Published 2024-08-14 · Effective 2024-08-14 · 89 FR 65989
## Document
- **Document number:** 2024-17819
- **Category:** conservation
- **Sub-agency:** Natural Resources Conservation Service
- **Federal Register citation:** 89 FR 65989
- **CFR reference:** 7 CFR 622
- **Publication date:** 2024-08-14
- **Effective date:** 2024-08-14
- **USDA docket:** Docket ID NRCS-2023-0020
## Abstract

The Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) is amending its regulations for watershed projects to allow Indian Tribes or Tribal organizations to sponsor needed watershed projects. While federally recognized Tribes generally maintain regulatory jurisdiction over their land and can therefore exert eminent domain, Alaska Native Corporations and Tribal organizations do not have eminent domain authority, which has been one of the requirements to be a watershed project sponsor. This rule change will provide an option to better allow federally recognized Tribes, Alaska Native Corporations, or Tribal organizations to become watershed project sponsors.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2024/08/14/2024-17819/tribe-or-tribal-organization-sponsor-option-for-watershed-projects)
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