under section 692(a) for a fiscal year and remaining after the Secretary makes the reservations required by section 692(c) exceeds $850,000,000, no State shall receive under this section less than 3/4 of 1 percent of the remaining amount. (c) Grants and payments Subject to section 677, the Secretary shall make grants to eligible States for the allotments described in subsections (a) and (b). The Secretary shall make payments for the grants in accordance with section 6503(a) of title 31, United States Code. The Secretary shall allocate the amounts allotted under subsections (a) and (b) quarterly, notify the States of their respective allocations and make each State’s quarterly allocation amount available for expenditure by the State no later than 30 days after the start of the fiscal quarter for which the Secretary is allocating the funds. (d) Definition In this section, the term State does not include Guam, American Samoa, the United States Virgin Islands, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. 677. Payments to Indian tribes (a) Definitions In this section: (1) Indian The term Indian means a member of an Indian tribe or tribal organization. (2) Indian tribe or tribal organization The term Indian tribe or tribal organization means a tribe, band, or other organized group recognized in the State in which the tribe, band, or group resides, or considered by the Secretary of the Interior, to be an Indian tribe or an Indian organization for any purpose. (b) Reservation (1) Application Paragraph (2) shall apply only if, with respect to any State, the Secretary— (A) receives a request from the governing body of an Indian tribe or tribal organization within such State that assistance under this subtitle be made available directly to such tribe or organization