The Indian Reservation Roads Program (IRR) is part of the

Bureau of Indian Affairs The Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA), also known as Indian Affairs (IA), is a United States federal agency within the Department of the Interior. It is responsible for implementing federal laws and policies related to American Indians and A ...

(BIA) and is meant to meet the transportation needs of

American Indians in the United States Native Americans, also known as American Indians, First Americans, Indigenous Americans, and other terms, are the Indigenous peoples of the mainland United States (Indigenous peoples of Hawaii, Alaska and territories of the United States are ...

, American Indian tribes, and

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.FLH > Programs > Indian Reservation Roads (IRR)
/ref> These roads, also known as BIA Roads are given to tribes by providing funds for planning, designing, construction, and maintenance activities. The program is jointly administered by the Federal Lands Highway Program and the BIA. These roads are public that provide access to and within

Indian reservations An Indian reservation is an area of land held and governed by a federally recognized Native American tribal nation whose government is accountable to the United States Bureau of Indian Affairs and not to the state government in which it ...

, Indian trust land, restricted Indian land, and

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. Approximately are under the jurisdiction of the BIA and tribes and another are under State and local ownership. The authorizing legislation is the highway authorization act (currently the Safe, Accountable, Flexible and Efficient Transportation Equity Act – A Legacy for Users (SAFETEA-LU)) and codified in Title 23 U.S.C. and 25 C.F.R. Part 170. The IRR program funds can be used for any type of Title 23 transportation project providing access to or within Federal or Indian lands and may be used for the State/local matching share for apportioned Federal-aid Highway Funds.

List of roads

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External links

Federal Highway Administration Home Page

References

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List of roads

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