---
kind: "section"
citation: "25 C.F.R. § 224.106"
title: "25"
number: "224.106"
heading: "If a Tribe has enacted Tribal laws, regulations, or procedures for challenging Tribal action, how must the Tribe respond to a petition?"
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/25/224.106"
---

# §224.106. If a Tribe has enacted Tribal laws, regulations, or procedures for challenging Tribal action, how must the Tribe respond to a petition?


If a Tribe has enacted Tribal laws, regulations, or procedures under which a petitioner may file a petition alleging noncompliance with a TERA, the Tribe must:

- (a) Within a reasonable time issue a final written decision under the Tribal laws, regulations, or procedures that addresses the claim. The decision may include a determination of whether the petitioner is an interested party;
- (b) Provide a copy of its final written decision to the petitioner; and
- (c) If the Tribe fails, within a reasonable period, to issue a written decision to a petition that a petitioner brings under applicable Tribal laws, regulations, or procedures the petitioner may file a petition with the Secretary.

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 25 U.S.C. 2 and 9; 25 U.S.C. 3501-3504; Pub. L. 109-58; Pub. L. 115-325.

### Source

Source: 73 FR 12821, Mar. 10, 2008, unless otherwise noted.