What is the Tribal role in transportation planning?

(a) All Tribes must prepare a TTIP or Tribal priority list. (b) Tribes operating with a Program Agreement or BIA self-determination contract, TTP agreement, or self-governance agreement may assume any of the following planning functions: (1) Coordinating with States and their political subdivisions, and appropriate planning authorities on regionally significant TTP projects; (2) Preparing NTTFI data updates and ensuring that the data is entered into the NTTFI; (3) Facilitating public involvement; (4) Performing traffic studies; (5) Developing short- and long-range transportation plans; (6) Mapping; (7) Developing and maintaining Tribal management systems; (8) Participating in transportation planning and other transportation related meetings; (9) Performing transportation planning for operational and maintenance facilities; (10) Developing TTP budgets including transportation planning cost estimates; (11) Conducting special transportation studies, as appropriate; (12) Researching rights-of-way documents for project planning; and (13) Performing preliminary project planning or project identification studies.