{"data":{"id":"us/49-cfr-29.3","jurisdiction":"us","citation":"49 CFR 29.3","heading":"What is the effect of this part on existing Tribal rights?","body":"(a) A Tribe may apply for the Program at any time, but nothing in this part requires a Tribe to do so.\n(b) A Tribe's decision to participate in the Program does not:\n(1) Affect, modify, diminish, or otherwise impair the sovereign immunity from suit enjoyed by the Tribe;\n(2) Terminate, waive, modify, or reduce the trust responsibility of the United States to the Tribe or individual Indians; or\n(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.","path":["Title 49—Transportation","Subtitle A—Office of the Secretary of Transportation","PART 29—TRIBAL TRANSPORTATION SELF-GOVERNANCE PROGRAM","Subpart A—General Provisions"],"source_url":"https://www.ecfr.gov/api/versioner/v1/full/2026-08-25/title-49.xml","current_through":"2026-08-25","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-08-27T02:26:34Z","sha256":"16b78a661b4a57a8d76543b84c1d20a0292dcbaa3f1c30c5bfc11830f7250ae9","source_id":"us-cfr","stale":true,"prev":"us/49-cfr-29.2","next":"us/49-cfr-29.4"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}