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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 13, 2001

Nine out of 11 gaming compacts for New Mexico tribes will be published in the Federal Register tomorrow, with the other two coming soon, finally making the documents legal and effective.

The tribes and the state have been eagerly waiting approval of the compacts. Assistant Secretary Neal McCaleb finally signed off on them on November 21.

The compacts cap the revenue sharing rate at 8 percent. The old 1997 ones all had a 16 percent rate.

The new compacts were negotiated after New Mexico Attorney General Patricia Madrid filed a lawsuit against the tribes. The tribes had been holding back payments under the 1997 agreement, saying they were too high.

The tribes subsequently agreed to pay $91 million to the state.

Two tribes, Pojoaque Pueblo and the Mescalero Apache Nation, are holding out.

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Delayed gaming compacts should be published by Friday (The Albuquerque Journal 12/13)

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