[Federal Register Volume 85, Number 94 (Thursday, May 14, 2020)]
[Notices]
[Page 28974]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2020-10368]



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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Indian Affairs

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Wichita and Affiliated Tribes (Wichita, Keechi, Waco & 
Tawakonie); Amendment to Liquor Ordinance

AGENCY: Bureau of Indian Affairs, Interior.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: This notice publishes the amendment to the Liquor Ordinance of 
the Wichita and Affiliated Tribes (Wichita, Keechi, Waco & Tawakonie). 
The liquor ordinance regulates and controls the possession, sale, 
manufacture, and distribution of alcohol on Wichita and Affiliated 
Tribes (Wichita, Keechi, Waco & Tawakonie) trust lands in conformity 
with the laws of the State of Oklahoma where applicable and necessary. 
Although the amendment was adopted on October 30, 2019, it does not 
take effect until published in the Federal Register.

DATES: This ordinance takes effect on June 15, 2020.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. Sherry Lovin, Tribal Government 
Officer, Southern Plains Regional Office, Bureau of Indian Affairs, 
Post Box 368, Anadarko, Oklahoma 73005, telephone: (405) 247-1534 or 
(405) 247-6673, fax: (405) 247-1534; or Ms. Laurel Iron Cloud, Chief, 
Division of Tribal Government Services, Office of Indian Services, 
Bureau of Indian Affairs, 1849 C Street NW, MS-4513-MIB, Washington, DC 
20240, telephone: (202) 513-7641.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Pursuant to the Act of August 15, 1953, 
Public Law 83-277, 67 Stat. 5886, 18 U.S.C. 1161, as interpreted by the 
Supreme Court in Rice v. Rehner, 463 U.S. 713 (1983), the Secretary of 
the Interior shall certify and publish in the Federal Register notice 
of adopted liquor control ordinances for the purpose of regulating 
liquor transactions in Indian country. On May 14, 2010, the Wichita and 
Affiliated Tribes Executive Committee duly adopted the Liquor Ordinance 
of the Wichita and Affiliated Tribes (Wichita, Keechi, Waco & 
Tawakonie). The Liquor Ordinance of the Wichita and Affiliated Tribes 
(Wichita, Keechi, Waco & Tawakonie) was published in the Federal 
Register on July 27, 2010, at 75 FR 44011 and a correction was 
published on August 18, 2010, at 75 FR 51102.
    This notice is published in accordance with the delegated authority 
by the Secretary of the Interior to the Assistant Secretary--Indian 
Affairs. I certify that the Wichita and Affiliated Tribes Executive 
Committee duly adopted the amendment to the Liquor Ordinance of the 
Wichita and Affiliated Tribes (Wichita, Keechi, Waco & Tawakonie) by 
Resolution Number WT-20-014 on October 30, 2019.

Tara Sweeney,
Assistant Secretary--Indian Affairs.

    The Liquor Ordinance of the Wichita and Affiliated Tribes (Wichita, 
Keechi, Waco & Tawakonie), Section 215, as amended, shall read as 
follows:
    215. ``Tribal Lands'' means the 5.0574 acres of land held in trust 
by the United States for the benefit of the Wichita and Affiliated 
Tribes upon which a gaming facility of the Tribe known as Sugar Creek 
Casino exists, whose address is 4200 North Broadway, Hinton, Oklahoma 
73047, described as:
    All Interest in Surface and Surface Rights Only in and to a tract 
of land lying in the Southwest Quarter (SW/4) of Section Ten (10), 
Township Twelve (12) North, Range Eleven (11) West of the Indian 
Meridian, Caddo County, Oklahoma, being particularly described as 
follows:
    COMMENCING at a Railroad Spike found for corner of the Southeast 
corner of said Southwest Quarter (SW/4);
    THENCE North 00[deg]15'47'' West, along the East line of said 
Southwest Quarter (SW/4), a distance of 227.41 feet;
    THENCE South 89[deg]44'13'' West, a distance of 70.03 feet to the 
POINT OF BEGINNING, said point being on the West Right of Way line of 
U.S. Highway 281 located 75.00 feet West of the centerline of said 
Highway as set forth by the Easement to the State of Oklahoma recorded 
at Book 79, Page 185;
    THENCE South 89[deg]40'46'' West, perpendicular to said Right of 
Way line, a distance of 208.00 feet;
    THENCE South 00[deg]19'14'' East, parallel to said Right of Way 
line, a distance of 143.29 feet;
    THENCE South 89[deg]44'13'' West, perpendicular to the East line of 
said Southwest Quarter (SW/4), a distance of 292.50 feet;
    THENCE North 00[deg]15'47'' West, parallel to said East line, a 
distance of 500.00 feet;
    THENCE North 89[deg]44'13'' East, a distance of 500.00 feet to a 
point on said West Right of Way line;
    THENCE South 00[deg]19'14'' East, along said West Right of Way 
line, a distance of 356.50 feet to the POINT OF BEGINNING.
    Said tract of land containing 220,299 square feet or 5.0574 acres, 
more or less; and any lands the Tribe has been granted permanent use.

[FR Doc. 2020-10368 Filed 5-13-20; 8:45 am]
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