INDIAN HEALTH SERVICE WATER AND SEWER ASSISTANCE
The Indian Health Service, Miami Office of Environmental Health and Engineering, offers programs to install water and sewer facilities to qualified Indian Homeowners. Funding and construction of sanitation facilities, such as wells, water service lines, septic tanks and drain fields, wastewater lagoons and sewer service lines, are available.
Minimum eligibility requirements include:
1. Property must be located within the boundaries of the nine tribes of the Inter-tribal Council, Inc. of Northeast Oklahoma in Ottawa and Delaware Counties, Oklahoma.
2. You must be a member of a federally recognized Indian tribe, band or group. 3. The home must be Indian owned and occupied. 4. HUD homes must be paid in full before services can be provided.
Documentation of tribal affiliation and home ownership or long-term lease (5 years minimum) will be required with the application for services. Mobile homes must be tied down, skirted and wheels removed prior to service.
Please note that applying for service does not guarantee you will receive service. Service depends on the availability of funding.
Please contact Felicia Chuckluck, at felicia.chuckluck@ihs.gov for more information_ You may also call our office at 918-542-6414, or stop by our office located in the Inter-Tribal Council, Inc Administrative Offices at 21 N. Eight Tribes Trail, Miami, Oklahoma.