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To: Clark Kent who wrote (1613)	1/17/1998 11:06:00 PM
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From the Detroit Free Press, Jan 17,1998. This is GREAT NEWS!!! Feds may step into casino fray January 17, 1998 The U.S. Department of the Interior on Friday proposed regulations that could give Indian tribes more leverage in casino negotiations with states. The proposal would give the Interior Department the power to implement casino agreements without approval from the governor or state legislature if, in its view, the state fails to negotiate in good faith with the tribes. The compacts establish how many casinos the tribes can open and how much money they must send to the state. The proposal would also mean the compacts the tribes have already negotiated with the state could change. That means the state could lose the revenue-sharing agreements and the limitation of one casino per tribe now contained in the compacts. Although it may be months before the plan is approved through an administrative process, the possibility of its enactment is expected to affect a politicized standoff between the state Legislature and four Michigan tribes that have negotiated casino agreements with Gov. John Engler. Engler and four tribes have signed compacts that would grant them one casino each near New Buffalo, Manistee, Mackinac City and Battle Creek. But the Legislature has refused to consider the compacts, partially because of pressure from Detroit interests who do not want new Indian casinos until Detroit's open. The 15 Indian casinos in operation throughout Michigan are not affected. "The Legislature has been stalling," said Mike Wesaw, finance director of the Pokagon band of Potawatomi Indians that wants to open a casino near New Buffalo. "We told them sooner or later the federal government was going to intervene on our behalf." The three other tribes are the Little River Band of Ottawa Indians, the Huron Band of Potawatomi Indians and the Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians. By Bill McGraw