---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 C.F.R. § 137.3"
title: "42"
number: "137.3"
heading: "Effect on existing Tribal rights."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/42/137.3"
---

# §137.3. Effect on existing Tribal rights.


Nothing in this part 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 must act in good faith in upholding this trust responsibility;
- (c) Mandating an Indian Tribe to apply for a compact(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. 458 et seq.

### Source

Source: 67 FR 35342, May 17, 2002, unless otherwise noted.