Indian Gaming

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identifier: "/us/fr/E8-25208"
source: "fr"
legal_status: "authoritative_unofficial"
title: "Indian Gaming"
title_number: 0
title_name: "Federal Register"
section_number: "E8-25208"
section_name: "Indian Gaming"
positive_law: false
currency: "2008-10-23"
last_updated: "2008-10-23"
format_version: "1.1.0"
generator: "[email protected]"
agency: "Interior Department"
document_number: "E8-25208"
document_type: "notice"
publication_date: "2008-10-23"
agencies:
  - "Interior Department"
  - "Indian Affairs Bureau"
fr_citation: "73 FR 63193"
fr_volume: 73
effective_date: "2008-10-23"
fr_action: "Notice of Tribal-State Class III Gaming Amendment taking effect."
---


#  Indian Gaming

**AGENCY:**

Bureau of Indian Affairs, Interior.

**ACTION:**

Notice of Tribal-State Class III Gaming Amendment taking effect.

**SUMMARY:**

This publishes notice of an Amendment to a Compact between the Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians and the State of Michigan providing for the conduct of Tribal-State Class III gaming by the Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians taking effect.

**DATES:**

*Effective Date:* October 23, 2008.

**FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:**

Paula L. Hart, Acting Director, Office of Indian Gaming, Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary—Policy and Economic Development, Washington, DC 20240, (202) 219-4066.

**SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:**

Under Section 11 of the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act of 1988 (IGRA), Public Law 100-497, 25 U.S.C. 2710, the Secretary of the Interior shall publish in the *Federal Register* notice of approved Tribal-State compacts for the purpose of engaging in Class III gaming activities on Indian lands. This Amendment is entered into in connection with a unique set of circumstances resulting in our decision to neither approve nor disapprove the Amendment within the 45-day statutory time frame. This Amendment is in effect but only to the extent that it complies with the provisions of the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act.

Dated: October 14, 2008.

George T. Skibine,

Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy and Economic Development.