Health & Saf. Code, § 50513

(a) This section shall be known, and may be cited, as the G. David Singleton California Indian Assistance Program.

(b) The department shall provide comprehensive technical assistance to tribes, tribal housing authorities, designated tribal housing entities, tribal housing departments, housing sponsors, and governmental agencies on reservations, rancherias, and on public domain, and tribes that want to participate in tribal housing grant programs on fee simple land to facilitate the planning and orderly development of suitable, decent, safe, and sanitary housing for American Indians residing in those areas or within a tribe’s designated service area, as defined by the tribe. This assistance may include technical assistance in land use planning, natural and environmental resource planning, and economic resource planning.

(c) To provide assistance with waivers or modification requests submitted pursuant to subdivision (p) of Section 50406, the department shall do all of the following:

(1) Assign each waiver or modification request submitted a reference number.

(2) Post on its internet website a waiver or modification request submitted to the department, including the nature of the waiver or modification request and the reference number.

(3) Post on its internet website whether a waiver or modification request is accepted, denied, or accepted or denied in part. If the waiver or modification request is denied, post on its internet website the reason the department denied the waiver or modification request.

(4) Where the department has made a determination that tribal law, tribal governance, tribal charter, or difference in tribal entity or agency legal structure causes a violation or does not satisfy the requirements of specific state financing being provided to a housing development administered by the department for more than two tribal applicants for a specific notice of funding availability, the director of the department or designee may incorporate that waiver or modification into any of its the department’s state financing programs.

(d) The department shall provide outreach, education, and comprehensive technical assistance to tribes, tribal housing authorities, tribally designated housing entities, housing departments of a tribe, housing sponsors, and governmental agencies on reservations, rancherias, and on public domain in the development of tribal housing grant programs, and before, during, and after the grant application process.

(e) Notwithstanding any other law, data collected pursuant to this section shall be kept confidential and shall not be subject to public disclosure, including, but not limited to, any person or entity that provides technical assistance.