---
kind: "section"
citation: "45 C.F.R. § 1167.1"
title: "45"
number: "1167.1"
heading: "Purpose."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/45/1167.1"
---

# §1167.1. Purpose.

- (a) This part sets forth policies and procedures to be followed when an employee of the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) receives a demand to provide testimony or produce official records and information in connection with a legal proceeding in which the United States is not a party.
- (b) The provisions of this part are intended to promote economy and efficiency in NEH's programs and operations; minimize the possibility of involving NEH in controversial issues not related to its functions; maintain the impartiality of NEH among private litigants; and protect sensitive, confidential information and the agency's internal deliberative process.
- (c) **This part does not waive the sovereign immunity of the United States.**
- (d) This part does not create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law by a party against the United States.
- (e) This regulation is not intended to conflict with [5 U.S.C. 2302(b)(13)](/usc/5/2302.md?p=b-13).

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 5 U.S.C. 301.

### Source

Source: 87 FR 8429, Feb. 15, 2022, unless otherwise noted.