Indian Gaming

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identifier: "/us/fr/E8-29420"
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title: "Indian Gaming"
title_number: 0
title_name: "Federal Register"
section_number: "E8-29420"
section_name: "Indian Gaming"
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currency: "2008-12-12"
last_updated: "2008-12-12"
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generator: "[email protected]"
agency: "Interior Department"
document_number: "E8-29420"
document_type: "notice"
publication_date: "2008-12-12"
agencies:
  - "Interior Department"
  - "Indian Affairs Bureau"
fr_citation: "73 FR 75764"
fr_volume: 73
effective_date: "2008-12-12"
fr_action: "Notice of Approved Tribal-State Gaming Compact Amendment."
---


#  Indian Gaming

**AGENCY:**

Bureau of Indian Affairs, Interior.

**ACTION:**

Notice of Approved Tribal-State Gaming Compact Amendment.

**SUMMARY:**

This notice publishes an Approval of the Third Amendment to the Wisconsin Winnebago Tribe, now known as the Ho-Chunk Nation and the State of Wisconsin Gaming Compact.

**DATES:**

*Effective Date:* December 12, 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 modifies the existing arbitration provision by requiring that the parties utilize a last best offer format; establishes a term of twenty-five years; provides for the renegotiation of the revenue sharing and allows both parties to propose amendments to the Compact every five years.

Dated: November 28, 2008.

George T. Skibine,

Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy and Economic Development.