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**2015 Consultation NEPA Comments****Tribe**
			**Date**Iowa Tribe of Oklahoma
			04/28/2015Quapaw Tribe of Indians
			04/30/2015Seneca Cayuga Tribe of Oklahoma
			05/04/2015Shoshone Bannock Tribes
			06/17/2015Absentee Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma
			06/19/2015Cheyenne & Arapaho Tribe
			06/19/2015Chickasaw Nation
			06/19/2015Iowa Tribe of Oklahoma
			06/19/2015Seminole Tribe of Florida
			06/19/2015Seneca Cayuga Tribe of Oklahoma
			06/21/2015Delaware Nation, Oklahoma
			06/22/2015Jamul Indian Village of California
			06/22/2015Navajo Nation Gaming Enterprise
			06/22/2015Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes
			06/16/2015Wichita and Affiliated Tribes
			06/22/2015Standing Rock Sioux Tribe
			02/17/2016Snell & Wilmer LLP
			02/23/2016Warner Hospitality
			02/23/2016

**Consultation Transcript**
			**Date**Prior Lake Consultation Transcript
			05/20/2015Rapid City Consultation Transcript
			No date availableSan Diego Consultation Transcript
			04/02/2015Shawnee Consultation Transcript
			04/30/2015

**Comments on Draft NEPA Manual****Name**
			**Date**NIGA Proposal on NEPA
			04/15/2010Cayuga Nation NEPA Presentation
			03/13/2014NEPA Comments Moore
			11/06/2014Jamul NEPA Comments
			11/24/2014

**Past FONSIs**
			**Date**Chehalis Tribal Government on the Confederated Tribes of the Chehalis Reservation
			08/04/1994Ak-Chin Casino Project by the Ak-Chin Indian Community
			04/21/1994Kickapoo Traditional Tribe of Texas Gaming Facility
			05/29/1994Pala Mission Band of Indians
			06/15/2000Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians
			09/22/2000Options for Categorical Exclusion CATEX
			01/22/2015Blue Lake Rancheria of California
			06/01/2001Rincon San Luiseno Band of Mission Indians of California
			06/04/2001Little River Band of Ottawa Indians 2001.06.14
			06/14/2001Twenty-Nine Palms Band of Mission Indians of California
			07/13/2001Lummi Indian Nation of Washington
			12/11/2001Shingle Springs Band of Miwok Indians
			01/22/2002Picayune Rancheria of Chukchansi Indians Hotel and Casino Center
			02/19/2002Augustine Band of Cahuilla Mission Indians
			09/05/2002United Auburn Indian Community
			10/29/2002Rincon San Luiseno Band of Mission Indians
			11/14/2003Lummi Indian Business Council
			04/01/2004San Pasqual Band of Mission Indians
			11/04/2004Chitimacha Tribe of Louisiana
			02/01/2005Match-E-Be-Nash-She-Wish Band of Pottawatomi Indians
			09/21/2005Kickapoo Tribe of Oklahoma
			03/30/2006Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians
			03/31/2006Pueblo of Nambe
			03/12/2007Tonkawa Tribe of Oklahoma
			04/02/2007Iowa Tribe of Oklahoma
			09/12/2007Peoria Tribe of Indians
			10/01/2007Mechoopda Indian Tribe of the Chico Rancheria
			10/25/2007Pawnee Nation of Oklahoma
			02/09/2006Pawnee Nation of Oklahoma
			03/10/2006
               
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