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Feds ditch rule that foiled Indian casino plans
Business Week,
Thursday, June 16, 2011 at 8:43:13 AM
The Obama administration announced Tuesday it has rescinded a rule that blocked Indian tribes from building casinos far from their reservations, reviving hopes among local officials for casino gambling in the Catskills.
Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs Larry Echo Hawk announced the policy change to tribal leaders at the National Congress of American Indians in Milwaukee.
The change overturns the so-called commutability rule, created in 2008 by then-Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne. According to the rule, a casino beyond reasonable commuting distance from a tribe's reservation was damaging to life on the reservation because its residents would move to follow the new jobs.
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