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TUESDAY, DECEMBER 18, 2001

The Department of Interior has published nine out of 11 gaming compacts with New Mexico tribes, with the other two to be finalized soon, said a Bureau of Indian Affairs spokesperson.

Publication in the Federal Register makes the agreements effective. Compacts for the Pueblos of Isleta, Laguna, Sandia, San Juan, Santa Ana, Santa Clara, Acoma, San Felipe and Tesuque went into effect on Friday.

Compacts for Taos Pueblo and the Jicarilla Apache Nation are set to be published by the end of the week.

The compacts cap the revenue sharing rate with the state at 8 percent. They were negotiated after Attorney General Patricia Madrid filed a lawsuit to force payment of fees under 1997 compacts that required a 16 percent sharing rate.

The tribes agreed to pay $91 million to settle the issue. Pojoaque Pueblo and the Mescalero Apache Nation are refusing to sign off on the new compacts and say the old rate is still too high.

Get the Story:
Compacts on Record, Clearing 14 Years of Gaming (The Albuquerque Journal 12/18)

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