A top official with the Department of the Interior has notified Indian tribes that the agency is reconsidering how it handles applications for off-reservation casinos because of public opposition to the expansion of gambling.
James E. Cason, associate deputy Secretary of the Interior, said the agency "anticipates changes to the rules that may result in fewer off-reservation properties being accepted to trust" in letters mailed to tribes that are seeking casinos.
"In particular, we expect to consider a paradigm where the likelihood of accepting off-reservation land into trust decreases with the distance the subject parcel is from the tribe's established reservation or ancestral lands and the majority of tribal members," Cason wrote.
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