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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 2002

Secretary of Interior Gale Norton is being warned not to take land into trust for the Seneca Nation of New York.

The tribe needs trust land for two off-reservation casinos. The facilities would be located in Niagara Falls and Buffalo.

Rep. John J. LaFalce (D-N.Y.) in a letter to Norton said a lawsuit was all but guaranteed if the Bush administration approved land in Niagara Falls. He referred to a federal judge's ruling that the tribe's aboriginal land did not include the region.

Cornelius D. Murray, an anti-gaming attorney, wrote to Assistant Secretary Neal McCaleb and made the same argument.

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