---
kind: "section"
citation: "49 C.F.R. § 29.3"
title: "49"
number: "29.3"
heading: "What is the effect of this part on existing Tribal rights?"
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/49/29.3"
---

# §29.3. What is the effect of this part on existing Tribal rights?

- (a) A Tribe may apply for the Program at any time, but nothing in this part requires a Tribe to do so.
- (b) **A Tribe's decision to participate in the Program does not—**
  - (1) Affect, modify, diminish, or otherwise impair the sovereign immunity from suit enjoyed by the Tribe;
  - (2) Terminate, waive, modify, or reduce the trust responsibility of the United States to the Tribe or individual Indians; or
  - (3) Reduce the amount of the Tribe's formula or discretionary funding from the Department or impair the Tribe's ability to obtain funding from another Federal program.

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 23 U.S.C. 207

### Source

Source: 85 FR 33504, June 1, 2020, unless otherwise noted.