---
kind: "section"
citation: "25 C.F.R. § 900.4"
title: "25"
number: "900.4"
heading: "Effect on existing tribal rights."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/25/900.4"
---

# §900.4. Effect on existing tribal rights.


Nothing in these regulations shall be construed as:

- (a) Affecting, modifying, diminishing, or otherwise impairing the sovereign immunity from suit enjoyed by Indian tribes;
- (b) Terminating, waiving, modifying, or reducing the trust responsibility of the United States to the Indian tribe(s) or individual Indians. The Secretary shall act in good faith in upholding this trust responsibility;
- (c) Mandating an Indian tribe to apply for a contract(s) or grant(s) as described in the Act; or
- (d) Impeding awards by other Departments and agencies of the United States to Indian tribes to administer Indian programs under any other applicable law.

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 25 U.S.C. 450f et seq.

### Source

Source: 61 FR 32501, June 24, 1996, unless otherwise noted.