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U.S. GOVERNMENT
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Calendar No. 466
109TH CONGRESS REPORT
2d Session SENATE 109-261
INDIAN GAMING REGULATORY ACT AMENDMENTS OF
2006
JUNE 6, 2006.-Ordered to be printed
Mr. MCCAIN, from the Committee on Indian Affairs,
submitted the following
REPORT
[To accompany S. 2078]
The Committee on Indian Affairs, to which was referred the bill,
(S. 2078), to amend the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act to clarify
the authority of the National Indian Gaming Commission to regu-
late Class III gaming, to limit the lands eligible for gaming, and
for other purposes, having considered the same, reports favorably
thereon with an amendment in the nature of a substitute and rec-
ommends that the bill (as amended) do pass.
PURPOSE
The primary purpose of S. 2078, the Indian Gaming Regulatory
Act Amendments of 2006, is to clarify and amend provisions of the
Indian Gaming Regulatory Act of 1988, Public Law 100-497, 25
U.S.C. §2501 et seq. (IGRA), applicable to the Department of In-
terior (Dol), the National Indian Gaming Commission (NIGC),
and the Indian tribes. This legislation is necessary to make amend-
ments to the IGRA so that Indian tribes may continue to be the
primary beneficiaries of gaming operations conducted on Indian
lands, and to reaffirm and further the original goals of the IGRA.
BACKGROUND
1. Indian gaming pre-IGRA
Indian gaming began in earnest in the late 1970s with several
tribes, from New York to Florida conducting high-stakes bingo
operations. Other tribes quickly followed suit, and by the mid-
1980s over 100 tribes were conducting bingo operations, which gen-
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