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SEPTEMBER 6, 2000

Three Connecticut towns are not only opposing local efforts to expand reservations but also a proposal by three Ojibwe tribes to take land into trust in Wisconsin.

The towns submitted a letter to the Bureau of Indian Affairs as part of a 30-day comment period on a casino proposed by the Red Cliff, Sokaogon, and Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwe in Hudson, Wisconsin. The towns say the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act (IGRA) of 1988 only allows reservation expansion onto lands which directly border existing borders.

The 30-day comment period ended last week. The Department of Interior said it would only consider comments addressing the environmental impact of the casino.

The towns are also opposing the expansion of the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation. A ruling over the Department of Interior's decision to take 165 acres of land into trust for the tribe is pending in the Second Circuit Court of Appeals.

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