---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 C.F.R. § 136.118"
title: "42"
number: "136.118"
heading: "Effect on existing rights."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/42/136.118"
---

# §136.118. Effect on existing rights.


The regulations in this part are not meant to and do not:

- (a) Affect, modify, diminish, or otherwise impair the sovereign immunity from suit enjoyed by an Indian tribe;
- (b) Authorize, require or permit the termination of any existing trust responsibility of the United States with respect to the Indian people;
- (c) **Permit significant reduction in services to Indian people as a result of this subpart.**

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: Secs. 104, 107, 25 U.S.C. 450h(b), 450k; Sec. 3, Pub. L. 83-568, 42 U.S.C. 2003.

### Source

Source: 40 FR 53143, Nov. 14, 1975, unless otherwise noted. Redesignated at 67 FR 35342, May 17, 2002.

### Authority

Authority: 42 U.S.C. 2001 and 2003; 25 U.S.C. 13; and 25 U.S.C. 1621a.