---
kind: "section"
citation: "25 C.F.R. § 170.935"
title: "25"
number: "170.935"
heading: "How does a direct service Tribe begin the alternative dispute resolution process?"
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/25/170.935"
---

# §170.935. How does a direct service Tribe begin the alternative dispute resolution process?

- (a) To begin the ADR process, a direct service Tribe must write to the BIA Regional Director, or the Chief of BIA Division of Transportation. The letter must:
  - (1) Ask to begin one of the ADR procedures in the Administrative Dispute Resolution Act of 1996, [5 U.S.C. 571-583](/usc/5/571-583.md) (ADR Act); and
  - (2) **Explain the factual and legal basis for the dispute.**
- (b) ADR proceedings will be governed by procedures in the ADR Act and the implementing regulations.

## 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.