[Federal Register Volume 68, Number 236 (Tuesday, December 9, 2003)]
[Notices]
[Pages 68649-68650]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 03-30504]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Indian Affairs


Indian Gaming

AGENCY: Bureau of Indian Affairs, Interior.

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

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SUMMARY: Under Section 11 of the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act of 1988 
(IGRA), Pub. L. 100-497, 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 Secretary--Indian Affairs, 
Department of the Interior, through her delegated authority, has deemed 
approved the 2003 Amendment to the

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Stockbridge-Munsee 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 non-Indian 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 pari-mutuel card games, all forms of live poker, craps, all banking 
and non-banking dice games, roulette and other wheel games, keno, wheel 
of fortune, baccarat-chemin de fer, pari-mutuel wagering on horse, 
harness and dog racing events, Caribbean stud poker, let-it-ride, and 
pai-gow poker.

EFFECTIVE DATE: December 9, 2003.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: George T. Skibine, Director, Office of 
Indian Gaming Management, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Washington, DC 
20240, (202) 219-4066.

    Dated: December 2, 2003.
Aurene M. Martin,
Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary--Indian Affairs.
[FR Doc. 03-30504 Filed 12-8-03; 8:45 am]
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