---
kind: "section"
citation: "25 C.F.R. § 170.4"
title: "25"
number: "170.4"
heading: "How does this part affect existing Tribal rights?"
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/25/170.4"
---

# §170.4. How does this part affect existing Tribal rights?


This part does not:

- (a) Affect Tribes' sovereign immunity from suit;
- (b) Terminate or reduce the trust responsibility of the United States to Tribes or individual Indians;
- (c) Require a Tribe to assume a program relating to the TTP; or
- (d) Impede awards by other agencies of the United States or a State to Tribes to administer programs under any other law.

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: Pub. L. 112-141, Pub. L. 114-94; 5 U.S.C. 2; 23 U.S.C. 201, 202; 25 U.S.C. 2, 9.

### Source

Source: 81 FR 78463, Nov. 7, 2016, unless otherwise noted.