Federal Register: December 9, 2003 (Volume 68, Number 236)

DOCID: FR Doc 03-30504

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Indian Affairs Bureau

NOTICE: NOTICES

ACTION: Tribal-State Compacts approval; Class III (casino) gambling:

DOCUMENT ACTION: Notice of a 2003 amendment to a Tribal-State gaming Compact taking effect between the StockbridgeMunsee Community and the State of Wisconsin.

SUBJECT CATEGORY:

Indian Gaming

EFFECTIVE DATES: December 9, 2003.

DOCUMENT SUMMARY:

Under Section 11 of the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act of 1988 (IGRA), Pub. L. 100497, 25 U.S.C. 2710, the Secretary of the Interior shall publish, in the Federal Register, notice of the approved Tribal State compacts for the purpose of engaging in Class III gaming activities on Indian lands. The Assistant SecretaryIndian Affairs, Department of the Interior, through her delegated authority, has deemed approved the 2003 Amendment to the
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StockbridgeMunsee Community and the State of Wisconsin gaming Compact of 1992, as amended in 1998. By the terms of IGRA, the Amendment is considered approved, but only to the extent that the Amendment is consistent with the provisions of IGRA. The Amendment authorizes the Tribe to pay the State between two and a quarter and five percent of net revenues from all class III gaming. The payment to the State is reduced if the scope of nonIndian gaming is expanded within the State or if a federally recognized tribe opens a class III gaming facility within seventy miles of the tribes on reservation gaming facility. In addition the Amendment authorizes, inter alia, all banking, percentage and parimutuel card games, all forms of live poker, craps, all banking and nonbanking dice games, roulette and other wheel games, keno, wheel of fortune, baccaratchemin de fer, parimutuel wagering on horse, harness and dog racing events, Caribbean stud poker, letitride, and paigow poker.

SUMMARY:

Stockbridge-Munsee Community, WI,

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT

George T. Skibine, Director, Office of Indian Gaming Management, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Washington, DC 20240, (202) 2194066.

Dated: December 2, 2003.
Aurene M. Martin,
Principal Deputy Assistant SecretaryIndian Affairs.