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.