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15 REPORTER'S TRANSCRIPT OF PROCEEDINGS

16 Palm Springs, California

17 Monday, January 30, 2012

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21 Reported by:

JACQUELINE R. GRENACHE

22 CSR NO. 4631

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15 Reporter's Transcript of Proceedings, Spa Resort

16 Casino, 100 North Indian Canyon Drive, Palm Springs,

17 California, beginning at 8:44 a.m. and ending at 11:20 a.m.

18 on Monday, January 30, 2012, before Jacqueline R. Grenache,

19 C.S.R. No. 4631.

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1 ATTENDEES:

2 Tracie Stevens, Chairwoman

3 Steffani Cochran, Vice-Chairwoman

4 John Hay, Attorney NIGC

5 Eric Schalansky, Regional Director, California & Northern

6 Nevada

7 Richard Armstrong

8 Russell Attebery

9 Dora Bernal

10 Heidi Bogda

11 Janice Boswell

12 Tracy Burris

13 Laurel Burton

14 Michelle Carr

15 Chevers Heap of Birds

16 James DelaCruz

17 Norm DesRosiers

18 Dyann Eckstein

19 Lael Ecohawk

20 Jack Giffen, Jr.

21 Robert Goodwin

22 Rob Green

23 Norm Hansen

24 Rebecca Harteis

25 Kelly Hause

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1 ATTENDEES (CONTINUED)

2 Denise Harvey

3 Ida Hoffman

4 Celeste Hughes

5 Angela Karst

6 Richard Little

7 Jason Maldonado

8 Ed Mazzetti

9 Joe Murillo

10 Philip Orosco

11 David Palomares

12 Jerry Peebles

13 Teri Poust

14 Michael Prieto

15 Dean Primmer

16 Edward Roybal

17 Joseph Salgado

18 Karl Slagley

19 Les Stanley

20 John Tahsuda

21 Jon Toro

22 Joyce Wood

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24 ATTACHMENT:

25 Comments from Rincon Band of Luiseno Indians

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1 PALM SPRINGS, CALIFORNIA, MONDAY, JANUARY 30, 2012

2 8:44 A.M.

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4 VICE-CHAIRWOMAN COCHRAN: My name is -- can you hear

5 me. My name is Steffani Cochran and I'm the Vice-Chairman

6 of the National Indian Gaming Commission, and I want to

7 welcome you this morning to our consultation as part of our

8 regulatory review.

9 I am a member of the Chickasaw Nation, I was born

10 and raised in Oklahoma, although Santa Fe is actually home

11 for me now, so being in DC is quite different for me these

12 last couple of years. I was appointed in October of

13 2010 -- excuse me -- commissioned January 4, 2010, so I'm

14 down to the last 11 months of my term, and it's really kind

15 of time for me because --

16 (Interruption in proceedings.)

17 VICE-CHAIRWOMAN COCHRAN: So what we'll be doing this

18 last part of my term is really bringing to conclusion a lot

19 of the things that we've had in the hopper since the

20 Chairwoman came on board. We officially had a three member

21 Commission. The Chairwoman is late this morning, and so

22 she asked me to go ahead and get started with the

23 introductions and the welcoming, and so I'm happy to do

24 that, and I'm happy that you're here with us this morning.

25 I do want to turn it over, because we've asked

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1 the Commission Chairman, Michael Prieto, from --

2 MR. PRIETO: Ague Caliente.

3 VICE-CHAIRWOMAN COCHRAN: Thank you. (Continuing) to

4 come and make introductions for us this morning. And so

5 I'm going to ask him to bless us and to welcome us and

6 thank you for having us.

7 MR. PRIETO: Good morning, everyone. On behalf of

8 the Agua Caliente Tribal Council and Agua Caliente Gaming

9 Commission, good morning and welcome to the Spa Hotel. And

10 I just want to give a little brief background on myself.

11 As far as Commission Chairman, I've been Chairman

12 now for one year. Prior to that I was with the Aqua

13 Caliente Casino and Spa Resort Casino for the past 15 years

14 in surveillance, and before that I'd like to, I guess, put

15 a little pat on the back for myself as far as I was one of

16 the original commissioners for the tribe when we started

17 gaming in 1995. So, with that I welcome you to the Spa

18 Hotel, and we'll start this off. Thank you.

19 VICE-CHAIRWOMAN COCHRAN: Thank you for that.

20 I would like to go around the table. I know we

21 have some tribal leaderships with us, and I know we have

22 some regulatory leadership with us, and ask you to

23 introduce yourself for the record.

24 We do have a transcriptionist with us this

25 morning who is going to be with us all day today to

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1 transcribe the meeting notes and they will be eventually

2 put on the website so anybody who's not present today can

3 see happened, can read about what happened and know who was

4 present today, so I'm going to start this way.

5 MR. HANSEN: Norm Hansen, 29 Palms Commission

6 chairman.

7 MR. DES ROSIERS: Norm DesRosiers, Commissioner for

8 San Manuel Band.

9 MS. BURTON: Laurel Burton, Commissioner for Rincon.

10 MS. HUGHES: Celeste Hughes of Soboba Tribal Gaming

11 Commission, Chairwoman.

12 MR. BURRIS: Tracy Burris, Gaming Commissioner of

13 Viejas.

14 VICE-CHAIRWOMAN COCHRAN: Go to the back, please.

15 MR. SLAGLEY: Good morning. Karl Slagley, Executive

16 Director of Agua Caliente Gaming Commission.

17 MR. TORO: John Toro, Vice-Chairman, Gaming

18 Commission Agua Caliente.

19 MS. HAUSE: Good morning. Kelly Welmas Hause, Agua

20 Caliente Gaming Commission.

21 MR. OROSCO: Philip Orosco, Regulatory Director, Agua

22 Caliente Gaming Commission.

23 MR. GREEN: Good morning. Rob Green, Tribal

24 Attorney, Grand Ronde.

25 MR. GIFFEN, JR.: Jack Giffen, Junior, Tribal

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1 Council, Grand Ronde.

2 MS. HARVEY: Denise Harvey, Chairwoman for the Grand

3 Ronde Gaming Commission.

4 MR. STANLEY: Les Stanley, Executive Director, Rincon

5 Gaming Commission.

6 MR. MAZZETTI: Ed Mazzetti, Commissioner of Rincon

7 Gaming.

8 MS. HARTEIS: Rebecca Harteis, Backgrounds Manager,

9 Rincon Gaming.

10 MS. KARST: Angela Karst, Legal Counsel for Picayune

11 Rancheria.

12 MR. LITTLE: Richard Little, Director of Internal

13 Audit, Agua Caliente Gaming Commission.

14 MR. PALOMARES: David Palomares, Backgrounds and

15 Licensing Director for Agua Caliente Gaming Commission.

16 MR. PRIMMER: Dean Primmer, Augustine Gaming

17 Commission.

18 MS. ECOHAWK: Good morning. Lael Ecohawk, Attorney

19 for Rincon.

20 MR. PEEBLES: Jerry Peebles, Gaming Commissioner,

21 Soboba.

22 MR. MURILLO: Joe Murillo, 29 Palms Gaming

23 Commissioner.

24 MS. POUST: Teri Poust, Attorney.

25 MS. BERNAL: Dora Bernal, Council Member for the Herb

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1 Tribe.

2 MR. ROYBAL: Edward Roybal, Attorney.

3 MR. TSHUDA: John Tshsuda, Attorney.

4 MR. ATTEBERY: How are you. Buster Attebery, Cahoot

5 Tribe.

6 MR GOODWIN: I'm Bob Goodwin, the self governance

7 coordinator for the Cahoot Tribe. And Buster is the

8 Chairman also for the Cahoot Tribe.

9 MR. SALGADO: Joseph Salgado, Cahuilla Tribal Gaming

10 Agency.

11 MS. BOSWELL: Janice Boswell, Cheyenne and Arapaho

12 Tribes Governor.

13 MS. HOFFMAN: Ida Hoffman, Chief of Staff, Cheyenne

14 Arapaho Tribes.

15 MS. WOOD: Joyce Wood, Executive Assistant, Cheyenne

16 and Arapaho Tribes.

17 MR. HEAP OF BIRDS: Cheevers Heap of Birds, the

18 Legislator for the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes. Good

19 morning.

20 MR. DELACRUZ: James DelaCruz, Councilman for

21 Quinault Nation.

22 VICE-CHAIRWOMAN COCHRAN: Is that everybody?

23 (No response.)

24 VICE-CHAIRWOMAN COCHRAN: Why don't -- we also have a

25 staff from NIGC with us today, and it's through their hard

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1 work that makes these come together for us, allows us to do

2 our work, so I'm going to have them introduce themselves as

3 well.

4 MR. HAY: John Hay, from the Office of General

5 Counsel.

6 MR. SCHALANSKY: Eric Schalansky, Regional Director.

7 VICE-CHAIRWOMAN COCHRAN: Eric, who's with you

8 outside?

9 MR. SCHALANSKY: Kim Khuu, Administrative Assistant.

10 VICE-CHAIRWOMAN COCHRAN: The staff spends a great

11 deal of time helping us formulate how we want to keep our

12 consultations moving forward, in what order, what makes

13 sense. And also spends a great deal of time answering

14 questions and working with us on a policy level with these

15 sets of regulations that we were working on, so the work is

16 greatly appreciated and I know they spend a great deal of

17 time.

18 There are going to be some missing tribal leaders

19 at the table. I know there's some tribal leadership and

20 others sitting out there. If you'd like to come forward,

21 please do. We certainly welcome you to the table if you

22 want to come up.

23 I'm going to run real quickly through the agenda.

24 I'm not going for spend a great deal of time on it because

25 we do have a PowerPoint that's going to run us through more

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1 of the details. But I want to note that we are going to

2 start out in our Group 1. And if any of you, by any

3 chance, happen to not be familiar with how we've done this,

4 we've put out the Notice of Regulatory Review, we set it up

5 into groups, kind of grouping regulations that seem to make

6 sense. And this was done back in November of 2010. And

7 that formulated a set of groups that we've run through

8 since through -- good morning.

9 Would you -- we've got some new people joining

10 us. I could ask that you identify yourself for the court

11 reporter.

12 MS. BOGDA: Heidi Bogda.

13 MS. CARR: Michelle Carr, general counsel to the

14 Picayune Rancheria Chukchansi Indians.

15 MR. ARMSTRONG: Richard Armstrong, legal counsel to

16 the Picayune Rancheria Tribal Gaming Commission. And also

17 here with Shingle Springs Tribal Gaming Commission.

18 VICE-CHAIRWOMAN COCHRAN: Good morning.

19 So, the groups that we're here today to consult

20 on are groups 1, 2, 4 and 5, and the first group would

21 include the facility license notifications, renewals and

22 submissions. The second group includes Part 574, which is

23 our enforcement; Part 502, which includes a definitional

24 change; Part 519, 524 our appeals, 539, and Part 577,

25 appeals before the commission, which have now all been

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1 grouped into a new Part, Part 518.

2 And we'll discuss this from 8:45 to 10:15, and

3 we'll take a short break, and then at 10:30 regroup to

4 discuss Group 4, which includes part 556: Background

5 investigations for primary management officials and key

6 employees, which is primarily -- this Part relates to the

7 pilot program. Part 558, gaming licenses for key employees

8 and primary management officials. Again the pilot program.

9 Part 537, background investigations for persons or entities

10 with a financial interest in, or having management

11 responsibility for, a management. And then finally, the

12 fifth group, which includes Part 518, self-regulation of

13 Class II gaming.

14 So that what we've put on the agenda to discuss

15 with you, and I think we're going to go through a

16 PowerPoint that's going to lay forth some more details to

17 stimulate conversation with you.

18 There -- I know many of you have extremely busy

19 schedules, and if there's anyone who may need to leave

20 during this, if you want to make a statement for the

21 record, now is the time to do it, please. We want to make

22 sure that you're allowed to do that. Given an opportunity

23 to do that. And I want to make sure -- yes, please.

24 MS. BURTON: I just am here representing Rincon Band

25 and we have some written statements we would like to have

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1 included in the record.

2 VICE-CHAIRWOMAN COCHRAN: Did you want to read them

3 in or just -- we can -- we can give them to the

4 transcriptionist, ask her to include it.

5 MS. BURTON: Thank you.

6 VICE-CHAIRWOMAN COCHRAN: I'm looking at my own --

7 she's on the wrong side of the table. I'm not used to

8 looking directly at her, I'm used to today looking at the

9 side of her. It's nice to see so many familiar faces.

10 I'm going to start off -- normally, the

11 Chairwoman discusses a consultation as far as our

12 priorities for this Commission go is the priority of her

13 doing, primarily. She's very interested and spends a lot

14 of time on her consultation policies.

15 And we do want to remind you that the meetings

16 are between tribal government and the federal government.

17 Only tribes and their designees can attend and participate

18 in these meetings; they are not open to the general public.

19 So, anyone who may not be here on behalf of a tribe as a

20 delegate or a representative of a tribe, we do ask that you

21 not participate, to keep these within our consultation

22 framework.

23 And this isn't -- we believe a policy that's in

24 line with Executive Order 13,175, which does -- and is the

25 primary reason why we've been on the road so much

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1 consulting. It does obligate federal agencies, including

2 the National Indian Gaming Commission, to consult with

3 tribes on matters that directly impact their interests.

4 And this does include consulting when we are going to

5 determine or establish federal standards such as what we're

6 doing here with these regulations.

7 We have spent a great deal of time not only

8 talking to tribes about what regulations needed revisions,

9 but also once that was determined we came in and talked

10 about what changes tribes would like to see. We put out

11 drafts in advance of our notice of proposed rule-making so

12 that, again, we could get input of the tribes and have a

13 dialogue so that the -- anything that would go out in a

14 proposed rule form hopefully reflected the interest of both

15 the tribes and the Agency. And so we believe that

16 consultations is a very, very important part of this

17 process.

18 And all of our consultations are transcribed, and

19 as I said earlier, the -- they're put up on the website.

20 Some of these can be extremely long. I know one of them

21 was 642 pages or something. But it's there. And if you

22 want to go in and read and you want to review what was

23 said, then it's there for you to do so.

24 We also do put the written comments up, and these

25 do include any written comments like what was submitted

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1 this morning. This does include any letters that come in.

2 Usually they're from attorneys that will come in and

3 comment on a particular rule. Those are put up on the

4 website as well and -- in an effort to get as much

5 information throughout the gaming industry as we can and

6 throughout Indian country so that the views are shared and

7 people have access to them.

8 We do review, and we've made a firm commitment to

9 review, every comment that is submitted. I have read the

10 vast majority of them. It's usually bedside reading

11 material for me, but I do read them. And I know the

12 Chairwoman also reads them as well. And then, of course,

13 when we break them down into groups, they're read again by

14 the attorneys.

15 Any proposed or final rule will include a summary

16 of the comments. This is, again, an area that we spent a

17 great deal of time with our attorneys on to make sure that

18 they covered comments not only that they believe have

19 particular involvement to the discussion but also comments

20 that we as the Commission believe were relevant to the

21 discussion.

22 I'm going to turn it over now to John Hay, and

23 I'm going to let him run through the PowerPoint to set up

24 the first set of discussions for Group 1 and Group 2.

25 MR. HAY: I wanted to go through some of the

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1 deadlines that have past and are coming up on some of our

2 rules that we've been working on.

3 The Part 514, the fee rule, was one of the first

4 ones that we kind of put out there for discussion, mainly

5 in part because it's what we need to operate, and so

6 funding us to do what we do on a daily basis is of big

7 importance to us, and so we want to get those changes out

8 there as quickly as we could.

9 The proposed rule was published on October 11th

10 of last year and the comment period closed on December 12th

11 of last year. And just recently, January 25th, there was a

12 public meeting and the Commission approved a final rule,

13 and that final rule should be published -- I'm not sure if

14 we have a deadline on that, but it won't be in the too far

15 distant future.

16 The final rule, as Steffani indicated, will

17 include all the comments that we receive as well as the

18 Commission's response to each of those comments.

19 We also anticipate, since these can be somewhat

20 of a complicated matter, not only for our own internal

21 staff but for tribes and figuring them out, we're probably

22 going to be out there with some training and technical

23 support.

24 What exactly that training and technical support

25 will include, I'm not sure at this point. It will probably

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1 be a combination of things. There could be a bulletin put

2 out, there could be training sessions with our field staff

3 as well as our audit staff out there. I'm sure there will

4 be lots of questions, and hopefully we can answer all of

5 them to help you move in line with the new rule.

6 Part 523 was the review and approval of existing

7 ordinances. We felt that we didn't need this part anymore,

8 that all of them had been updated, and so we put out the

9 proposed rule in October of 2201.

10 The comment period again closed in December 12th,

11 and at the last public meeting they voted for a final rule,

12 so we anticipate that that would be out in the Federal

13 Register in the not too distant future.

14 Do you know, Steffani, if we have a deadline for

15 the Federal Register yet with Part 523 rule? I'm not sure

16 they've given us one.

17 VICE-CHAIRWOMAN COCHRAN: No.

18 MR. HAY: Okay. The next one is Part 559. These are

19 the facility license notifications, renewals and

20 submissions, and that proposed rule is going to be

21 published tomorrow, I believe. And that comment period

22 will close on April 2nd. I believe we have included copies

23 of that rule in your packets today in 559.

24 The Federal Register puts them out early for

25 people to view them online. And so I think we have copies

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1 of that in all of your packets.

2 And so I'd like to start off with 559, and

3 hopefully you can all follow along on the PowerPoint, or in

4 the rule itself.

5 This was one where a lot of people had some

6 strong feelings about. This is the rule which basically

7 gives NIGC notice that a new facility will be opening, or

8 that a facility license has been issued, and it also

9 requires tribes to certify that the facility is operated in

10 a manner that protects the public health, safety and

11 welfare. Okay.

12 The prior rule that's in existence today required

13 tribes to submit to NIGC a list of all their laws that

14 govern the environment, health and safety. The proposed

15 rule eliminates that requirement, so you're no longer

16 submitting lists of laws to us, you're simply certifying

17 that the tribe is protecting these areas. And we offer,

18 you know, guidance on what that means.

19 But one thing we heard loud and clear during the

20 consultation process is that this was an area which tribes

21 already were heavily interested in and that other federal

22 agencies were governing, and so we didn't want to duplicate

23 those efforts in an area that was probably outside of our

24 expertise and so we changed that to address a lot of those

25 concerns.

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1 We also received a lot of comments during this

2 process that the NIGC is not required to do Indian lands

3 opinion under the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act, and that's

4 correct, we agree with that 100 percent. And so the

5 facility licensing, while sometimes they do trigger Indian

6 lands determination, it doesn't happen automatically. So

7 when you submit a license to us, that's not the same as

8 asking us to do an Indian lands opinion. Okay.

9 Oftentimes those take quite a bit of time and we

10 would need a lot of information to do them. In certain

11 instances tribes want those opinions; in others they don't,

12 it's not necessary. And so it's really on a case-by-case

13 basis as to when we do Indian lands opinions.

14 In this case, what would happen would be within

15 120 days of the opening of a new facility the tribe would

16 submit notice to us that it was opening a new facility.

17 They can also request expedited review, which means that

18 within 60 days we would send you a confirmation letter.

19 That was one of the complaints in the past with

20 tribes is that they would send us these facility licensing

21 notifications and then nothing would happen and they didn't

22 know if there was an issue with them or there wasn't an

23 issue with them.

24 From out standpoint, when we -- when these were

25 first enacted, they were really a way for us to know that a

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1 new facility was opening. We didn't want to be caught off

2 guard when someone called us up and said, "You know, a new

3 casino is opening tomorrow?"

4 "No, we didn't know anything about it."

5 So we thought, since we have a role in the

6 regulation of casinos, that we should know about it, and

7 that will continue in the regulation as it's proposed.

8 One of the comments that we received was that we

9 should clarify that tribes are the ones who issue the

10 facility licensing, not the NIGC.

11 I think there's a misconception out there that

12 NIGC licensing -- licenses gaming facilities, and we

13 don't -- we're not in that business. And so the preamble

14 in this case would make that clear, that tribes are the

15 licensing authority for the tribal gaming.

16 Once a facility license is issued, the tribe

17 would have 30 days to submit those to us. Okay. We really

18 didn't receive any comments on that point. I think

19 everyone thought that was a reasonable amount of time. The

20 tribe had already issued the license and it's simply a

21 matter of putting it in the mail to us and nothing special

22 needs to be done with it.

23 As I mentioned before, one of the big changes was

24 that tribes were no longer required to submit a list of

25 their laws dealing with the environment or public health

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1 and safety, and all that was required is a certification

2 that the tribe has determined that the construction and

3 maintenance of the facility and operation is conducted in a

4 manner which adequately protects environment, public health

5 and safety.

6 We received a lot of support for this approach,

7 and we're well aware that other federal agencies and tribal

8 agencies regulate a lot of areas which had previously been

9 of concern in the regulations and that were listed in

10 regulations, and so that's probably the biggest change.

11 It's also a change to the Definitions. We've

12 moved the definition of construction maintenance of a

13 facility and operation as conducted in a manner which

14 adequately protects the environment, public health and

15 safety into the actual regulations in 559. Before they

16 were in a Definitions section and we thought it would be a

17 lot clearer if they were actually moved in the actual

18 regulation.

19 We also would receive notice of a closing of a

20 facility. Again, that would be 30 days from the time of

21 when a license was terminated or expired. Notice is not

22 required if it's just a seasonal closure. So if you are

23 closed for less than 180 days, you do not need to give us

24 notice of that closure.

25 All of the submissions to NIGC can be done

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1 electronically. We're trying to get up to speed on all of

2 that to make it easier for tribes to submit those to us,

3 and so we have a mechanism in place for handling that. The

4 comment period on this closes on April 2nd of this year.

5 Now I'd like to turn it over to the audience, if

6 there's anyone who has any comments on this area, right

7 now.

8 (No response.)

9 VICE-CHAIRWOMAN COCHRAN: The Commission, when we sat

10 down and looked at this rule, the main objective for us

11 really had to do with bringing the Agency back in its own

12 lane to get us doing what we have statutory authorization

13 to do and get us out of doing what we do not have the

14 authority to do. And the one place that we could obviously

15 do that had to do the environmental health and safety side

16 of things. So we really did work hard to bring a stack in

17 our lane to get us in alliance with IGRA.

18 And we also wanted to place an obligation on the

19 Commission and on the Agency to respond in a timely manner,

20 and that is what we've done with the 30-day response times.

21 And then the other thing that was important for

22 us was to deal with issues of seasonal closures or

23 temporary closures to not place additional paperwork burden

24 on the tribe for those types of activities where we have

25 some areas of the country where they may very well be

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1 closed every year at the same time due to weather or

2 various issues. So it really was an effort to reduce some

3 of the paperwork, reduce some of the burden on the tribes.

4 Especially the smaller tribes who really do need to have

5 fair guidance and less paperwork placed on them.

6 And then finally, the electronic submissions are

7 another important part. The Administration has spoken to

8 this and been very clear with agencies about doing things

9 electronically, again to get out of the paperwork business

10 where we can, where it makes sense to do so. So we're

11 hoping -- and this Commission is a particularly technology

12 focused Commission -- that we can do better in that area

13 for tribes, where they have the ability to do that.

14 So, that's my policy recount.

15 Anything that we missed, or anything you think we

16 should do better?

17 MR. BURRIS: Tracy Burris. Question on the

18 electronic filing: Do you foresee that as going -- an

19 e-mail going directly to a department, an individual, or

20 how is it going to be -- making sure that we know it got

21 there, you know, electronically?

22 VICE-CHAIRWOMAN COCHRAN: That's what we need to work

23 out. I imagine -- I envision it probably will go to a

24 particular area of the Agency. What that is, I don't know.

25 Our technology, Tracy, is just behind, and we're

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2 MR. BURRIS: Well, I assumed -- I noticed that when

3 we were just like setting up the meeting and the review and

4 stuff, there was keywords. I'm just curious whether it

5 would maybe be called facility licensing dot com in getting

6 up to speed, something like that, and that way we get some

7 kind of notice that we did submit that in the proper time

8 frame.

9 VICE-CHAIRWOMAN COCHRAN: Okay. Thank you.

10 MR. HAY: If we don't have any more questions on

11 that, I think we'll move on to Part 573, Enforcement.

12 There was some related definitions for this in

13 Part 502, and they were published on December 27th of last

14 year, and the comment period will close on February 27th of

15 this year.

16 One thing that the Commission has strived to the

17 tribes is that their number one goal is voluntary

18 compliance. I know that this Commission hopes that they

19 would never have to do an enforcement action; that if any

20 issues were identified, we can just leave it to the tribes

21 to correct the problem, and the changes to Part 573 reflect

22 that.

23 One, there is a statement that voluntary

24 compliance is the goal with the Commission. We've also set

25 up an approach that would give prenotification of any

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1 potential areas of concern for us, and they would come in

2 the form of either a letter of concern or of a warning

3 letter.

4 Oftentimes we will receive information either

5 from Tribal Gaming Commissions or from employees, from

6 members of the public, saying "Hey, there's something going

7 on here, this happened, someone should do something about

8 it."

9 Oftentimes the information is somewhat lacking in

10 some structure, also lacking in some substance, and so in

11 that instance we would send out a letter to the tribe of

12 concern asking for more information, or is there something

13 we don't know about, this is the information that we have

14 received. That would be one indicator to the tribe there

15 was an issue. We would give them the opportunity to

16 respond to us and to provide us with more information.

17 There's also warning letters, which would

18 probably be the next step. This is where the Commission

19 has a lot more information available to us and we have

20 identified that in our minds a violation has occurred, and

21 this would be an opportunity for the tribe to correct that

22 violation.

23 And, again, these are all steps before a formal

24 notice of violation, so that way there's a paper trail both

25 for the Commission and for tribes on this issue, and it

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1 will allow us to open up a dialogue with tribes so that we

2 can gain voluntary compliance.

3 I don't want to move on from that just quite yet.

4 Our Chairwoman has arrived, so I'd like to allow her to say

5 hello.

6 CHAIRWOMAN STEVENS: Good morning. My apologies.

7 I -- we took the scenic route here. That's all I can say.

8 So I appreciate everybody waiting and for the staff getting

9 started, because we all know that you have schedules as

10 well. So again, my apologies. And invariably my GPS sends

11 me off in the wrong direction.

12 So, anyhow, I don't want to delay. Welcome

13 everybody to our -- a different phase of our regulatory

14 review, and we look forward to your comments, so let's --

15 also, just so you know, we have our Deputy Chief of Staff

16 here, Dawn Howe, just so you all know who she is, and I'm

17 sure we've introduced all of our other staff, so with that

18 I will let you go ahead and proceed.

19 Thanks, John.

20 MR. HAY: Both of these letters that I've mentioned,

21 both the letter of concern or the warning letter, are not

22 official Agency action. Okay. And what does that mean, it

23 being not official Agency action or not final action?

24 That means that if that letter is issued to you,

25 it doesn't trigger some sort of appeal or some sort of

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1 formal process, and it doesn't allow you to go to federal

2 court to say "No, NIGC, you're wrong."

3 These are all preliminary steps before a formal

4 enforcement action, and the hope is that whatever the

5 violation is, it will be corrected; or if the information

6 that we have received is just flat-out wrong, it will give

7 the tribe the opportunity to correct that information so

8 that we can resolve the issue.

9 In the past we've -- sometimes we've heard from

10 tribes, "You know, we had no idea until we received the

11 notice of violation that anything was wrong," and so

12 hopefully by issuing these two types of letters we can open

13 up the dialogue between tribal -- earlier in the process so

14 that a NOV doesn't have to be issued.

15 Now, having said that, neither of these letters

16 would preclude the Chair from issuing an NOV. If the Chair

17 finds a violation, she is free to issue that NOV at any

18 point. So that wouldn't stop her from doing that. Okay.

19 It's just -- it is a practice that we had been doing for

20 sometime and we just wanted to formalize that practice a

21 little more in the regulations, not only for our field

22 staff but for tribes to know what -- what was meant when we

23 sent out a warning letter or a notice of concern letter.

24 I know over the years our field staff has sent

25 these out and they've been called different things and had

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1 different meanings, and so this is a way to standardize

2 that approach.

3 Are there any questions or comments on those

4 letters -- on the issue of those letters?

5 (No response.)

6 MR. HAY: As part of this -- even though it's not in

7 Part 573, Part 502 is our Definition section, and we never

8 had a definition of enforcement action. Okay. And so we

9 have put that in there now. We now have a definition of

10 what enforcement action is. And I have it up here on the

11 screen.

12 An "Enforcement Action is defined as any action

13 taken by the Chair under 25 U.S.C. 2713 against any person

14 engaged in gaming, for a violation of any provision of

15 IGRA, the regulations of this chapter, or tribal

16 regulations, ordinances or resolutions approved under 25

17 U.S.C. 2710 or 2712 of IGRA, including, but not limited to,

18 the following: a notice of violation, a civil fine

19 assessment, or an order of temporary closure."

20 Those are the three things that most everyone is

21 familiar with as being an enforcement action. So we just

22 wanted to differentiate between those types of actions and

23 anything else that was going on as to what is an

24 enforcement action. So hopefully that definition change

25 will provide some clarity. And the comment period for both

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1 of these sections closes on February 27th of this year.

2 Do you have any comments or questions about

3 enforcement?

4 (No response.)

5 CHAIRWOMAN STEVENS: The changes that we made in this

6 particular part are very crucial, I think, to, again, the

7 overall policy objective of the Commission, which is to

8 allow the opportunity for dialogue between the Agency and

9 the tribe to correct what we believe to be problems with

10 compliance.

11 And it also falls in line with -- the

12 Chairwoman's come up with an acronym of ACE, which is

13 assistance in compliance enforcement, so that when the

14 Agency comes to a point where we take enforcement action

15 and bring out kind of a big hammer, if you will, because

16 it's one of the few hammers -- or few -- excuse me -- tools

17 that we have in our toolbox, that we've done so after we've

18 exhausted every other opportunity within reason to bring

19 the issue to resolution. So this is designed to meet that

20 objective.

21 We did get a comment at our last meeting at

22 Seminole last week, and I'll bring it out to your attention

23 because I thought it was a good comment. It stuck out to

24 me.

25 One of the tribes pointed out that we described

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1 the warning letter as providing notice to the tribe that we

2 believe an actual -- we believe an actual violation of IGRA

3 and NIGC regulations where the tribe's approved gaming

4 ordinance has occurred or is occurring.

5 They felt like this language can trigger some

6 other issues for them, that it didn't seem to be -- or it

7 seemed to be a little more final than what we intended it

8 to be, and they were concerned that we maybe review that

9 again in terms of if it were to be put out to the public,

10 what might it mean for the tribe with that type of

11 language. So I thought that was an interesting comment. I

12 wanted to bring that to your attention.

13 And I know I did talk to our staff about maybe

14 looking at it again, talked to the Chairwoman as well about

15 our wording there.

16 MR. HAY: Any comments? Tracy?

17 MR. BURRIS: I do have a question. Tracy Burris.

18 In reading this -- as a regulator I understand it

19 and I get it, to a point. I often ask myself where does it

20 lead, what have we not covered, where would RAPs fall under

21 this? Because it could be perceived as not -- you know,

22 it's required to do it -- where would that fall under who's

23 going to audit that? Because I believe there is no

24 authority for the NIGC to do that.

25 Now, that would be my opinion. But if I go

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1 through this process, if I didn't allow or unknowingly

2 submit or mislead, it's going to trigger all this process,

3 which I don't know if that's something that would fall

4 under -- you know, we're talking about ordinance reg --

5 CHAIRWOMAN STEVENS: Well -- thanks, Tracy. Well, I

6 think there's a number of things that we can speculate

7 might happen, and the statute says that the tribes have to

8 have a RAP. And that's all the statute says about RAPs.

9 They have to have a RAP, it has to be approved by Interior.

10 Our regulations nowhere address that. And not

11 only would how the RAPs -- whether they're being followed

12 or not, I don't believe we've ever taken action.

13 MR. HAY: You know, when we look at these things, and

14 I think a lot of people get confused by the terminology of

15 what we're doing when we're talking about RAPs. Okay.

16 Nowhere in IGRA or our regulations does it talk about NIGC

17 enforcing RAPs. All we have authority for is enforcing

18 ordinances which often refer to RAPs, and so we could -- if

19 a ordinance specifically addresses the RAP and how it shall

20 be handled, and if that's a violation -- that would be a

21 violation of the ordinance, which would give us authority.

22 Or, more often than not, it's authority over of the use of

23 revenues.

24 And so if you're using revenues that differs from

25 one of the five areas laid out under the Regulatory Act, or

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1 if you're -- say you're distributing per caps without a

2 RAP, then that would trigger enforcement by us.

3 But without a specific -- I don't know if I could

4 answer the question about what the specific -- there could

5 be any number of issues out there, and it would differ

6 depending on what the tribe's ordinance says whether or not

7 we would have a role.

8 I don't think that answers your question, right?

9 CHAIRWOMAN STEVENS: It's sort of in the abstract,

10 Tracy.

11 MR. BURRIS: Well, yes and no. The Commission has in

12 the past wanted to audit RAPs, and it's that opinion

13 whether or not they had that authority, and that's the

14 tribe's premise on that portion of that.

15 CHAIRWOMAN STEVENS: Have we been doing it lately?

16 MR. BURRIS: Not lately. I'm just saying in the past

17 it has been done. I'm just worried, you know, about the

18 future, too. Because just -- the way I do read this could

19 be interpreted that -- that's the only thing that comes to

20 my mind that could be addressed in that, but I think being

21 in California it should be a concern to many of the tribes

22 here in this region.

23 CHAIRWOMAN STEVENS: Well, we'll certainly take that

24 into consideration when we look at these definitions.

25 Thanks, Tracy.

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1 MR. HAY: Do we have any other comments or questions

2 before we move on?

3 (No response.)

4 MR. HAY: The next section we're going to talk about

5 is the Appeals section. Okay. Anyone who has ever had any

6 sort of practice before the NIGC would probably be somewhat

7 confused by our regulations now in that the appeals

8 sections are spread throughout our regulations, they're not

9 in one place. There is a separate process for enforcement

10 actions, management contracts, ordinances. All three of

11 them have their own distinct process and are in different

12 areas.

13 What the Commission has strived to do is to have

14 one chapter for all of our field regulations. And so all

15 of them -- and this is pretty much a complete rewrite --

16 will be in subchapter H now. And so what we'll be

17 repealing is Part 519, 524, 539 and 577. Okay.

18 And this notice of proposed rule making is going

19 to be published tomorrow. Although you should have a copy

20 of it today in your packet of information. And this

21 comment period goes until April 2nd of this year.

22 So what we would have is Part 580, 581, 83, 83

23 and 84, and each of these would outline for you what the

24 process is for appealing either disapproval of the gaming

25 ordinance, the approval or disapproval of a management

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1 contract, appeals for written submissions -- I mean appeals

2 for notices of violations and closure orders and civil

3 fines, and also provides a mechanism for appeals based

4 solely on written submissions and so that there wouldn't be

5 a hearing before a presiding official.

6 We're hoping that by laying all these rules out

7 that it will be easier for tribes and tribal attorneys to

8 navigate the process and know what options are available to

9 them.

10 One of the areas that was of somewhat concern in

11 the past is what motions could be made during an appeal.

12 You know, what were your rights. And the regulations as

13 drafted really didn't address what you could do, and so it

14 was up to the discretion of the presiding official or of

15 the Commission. And so unless you had practiced before the

16 Commission before and know you could file motions, you were

17 at somewhat of a disadvantage because you just didn't know.

18 And unless you tried it, you could read the regulations and

19 say, "I don't think we can do that. It doesn't say

20 anywhere we can do that."

21 And motions can be a pretty wide range of things

22 from either asking for more time, for evidentiary rulings

23 asking to submit evidence. There's a pretty wide range of

24 the types of motions you can make. And so hopefully we've

25 made it clear now in the regulation rewrite that you can

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1 file these types of motions before the Commission.

2 Part 580. This covers all the definitions that

3 will be used in the Appeals section. It talks about who

4 may appear before the Commission, it talks about what is

5 proper service, including what are the timing deadlines --

6 you know, whether or not we count holidays and weekends for

7 filing of appeals -- who can -- who can file an appeal on

8 behalf of a tribe, what is the standard review that the

9 Commission will use for appeals, when decisions will be

10 final -- there are strict deadlines in there for when the

11 Commission must issue a decision -- what happens after that

12 decision is issued, what are your rights then, what happens

13 if there isn't a majority decision if we only have two

14 commissioners present or only one commissioner present.

15 And what happens when an appeal is filed. Okay. Does it

16 stay everything that's happened or does the Chairman's

17 decision -- the Chairwoman's decision become final until

18 the appeals is decided. So all of these areas are

19 addressed in part 580.

20 We received a lot of comments on these sections.

21 I think it was of interest, and it was an area that hadn't

22 been addressed by the Commission in many years. One of the

23 comments -- or several comments suggested that we were

24 being too restrictive in who can appear before the

25 Commission. Okay.

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1 Oftentimes, simply because one tribe is appealing

2 an action, there are issues being raised that could affect

3 all tribes out in Indian country, or people other than

4 tribes. It could affect manufacturers or operators. And

5 so this will provide an opportunity for those individuals

6 to weigh in on the process and on the substance of it. And

7 hopefully we'll get more comments from you on that area.

8 I know that there are a lot of interested parties

9 who sometimes feel that issues are being decided without

10 them. And I think it will benefit the Commission to have

11 all of those views heard.

12 Another area of concern for us was ex parte

13 communications. You know, if an appeal is going on, can a

14 tribe meet with the Commission and talk about the issue or

15 do they have to have anyone involved, say a management

16 contractor involved.

17 This was an area that we struggled with because

18 it sometimes conflicts with our consultation policy. We

19 want to have an open dialogue with tribes, but if we're in

20 some sort of appeals stage, how can we have that without

21 violating some rules. And at this point we're not sure

22 what the answer is.

23 And so you will notice in the notice of proposed

24 rule making that we're asking for your views on how we can

25 handle ex parte communications. We're asking you to be

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1 creative and to come up with novel ideas for us. So

2 hopefully you'll pay attention to that and give us your

3 views.

4 As I mentioned before, you know, does the filing

5 of an appeal stay an action? For instance, if there is a

6 closure order, if you file an appeal could you stay open?

7 The answer would be would be no, the Chair's decision

8 stands until that appeal is decided.

9 Another area of concern was the actual record.

10 You know, if you're going to file an appeal, you may need

11 the actual record on which our decision was made so that

12 you can adequately address it, or point out areas where we

13 have wrong information, where we have applied that

14 information and the law in a manner that you don't think

15 was appropriate. So now there are provisions for you to --

16 to provide the record to you.

17 As I mentioned before, we're also setting out a

18 motions practice rule. This means our motions for limited

19 participation -- and what I mean by "limited

20 participation" -- those are instances where suppose a

21 tribe's ordinance was disapproved and another party had an

22 interest in that ordinance, they could petition to be

23 involved in those proceedings as well as the tribe whose

24 ordinance was disapproved.

25 Again, there's motions that intervene. Okay.

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1 That's for a third party to get involved if they state that

2 they have some sort of interest in the outcome. And there

3 are also motions before the presiding official.

4 Typically, in our enforcement actions what will

5 happen is if an appeal is filed we will immediately contact

6 the Department Interior's Office of Appeals and ask them to

7 assign an administrative law judge to serve as a presiding

8 official.

9 Now, the term "presiding official" is somewhat

10 broad. We don't have to do that; we could -- the Chair

11 could assign someone within the Agency to serve as the

12 presiding official. I think in some instances we can

13 probably go outside of the Agency and hire someone to do

14 that. But in years past the easiest way is to just go to

15 Interior and to use one of their administrative law judges.

16 Motions to supplement the record. If you feel

17 that there are documents missing from our record that

18 support your theory, you can -- can file a motion to have

19 those come before the Commission or the presiding official.

20 And finally, motions for reconsideration. Okay.

21 So if you think a motion was decided wrongly, you could ask

22 us, "Hey, can you take a second look at this?"

23 We've put in these draft regulations time periods

24 for filing of motions and time periods for the Commission

25 to review these motions, and we've received a lot of

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1 comments about, you know, possibly these time periods being

2 too short or how you calculate those time periods. So,

3 hopefully in the notice that will be published tomorrow

4 we'll address those to your satisfaction as to how we're

5 calculating them and that there is truly enough time for

6 proper responses.

7 Part 582 is a section for Appeals of Ordinances.

8 Disapprovals of Ordinances. And again you will see

9 throughout this entire section the same issues coming up

10 addressing who may appeal the disapprovals, how to appeal

11 them, how to file motions, how you receive a copy of the

12 record, and when decisions will be issued.

13 We didn't receive a lot of comments on this area,

14 so hopefully now that we have a notice of proposed rule out

15 there, we'll receive a lot more.

16 People wanted clarity on limited participation.

17 You know, how does someone become a limited participation,

18 do they automatically become entered into the appeal or do

19 they have to wait and have someone decide whether or not

20 they can enter into the appeal, and what the timeline for

21 that is. So hopefully we've addressed those issues in the

22 preamble.

23 Part 583 is for approvals or disapprovals of

24 management contracts. And again we see the same areas of

25 who may appeal, how to appeal, motions practiced, copies of

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1 the records and timing.

2 We also received a comment, or question, if you

3 will, as to why anyone would appeal an approval of a

4 management contract. it seems odd that if both parties

5 have submitted them to us that someone would want to appeal

6 that. And we've had instances -- at least one instance

7 where that has happened where there was -- there were

8 factions within the tribe and one tribal faction challenged

9 whether or not the council had authority to approve the

10 contract. And so that's one instance. We wanted to leave

11 that out there and open just in case there were any

12 situations which we hadn't thought of, so that way they'd

13 be addressed.

14 Part 584 deals with proceedings before a

15 presiding official, and that's to differentiate between

16 appeals that are handled simply on written submission,

17 which would be part 585. And, again, we have the same

18 areas addressed here: Who may appeal and how to appeal,

19 you know, when the hearings will be held, how you will

20 receive a copy of the record, how the presiding official

21 will handle confidential information, how the presiding

22 official will handle objections to the recommended

23 decision, do they have any role at all, and when the

24 Commission will issue its decision.

25 Some of the comments requested clarification on

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1 the role of the presiding official, so the proposed rule

2 hopefully provides additional clarification of that

3 process.

4 You know, we also received comments on whether or

5 not if someone is denied limited intervention whether or

6 not they could simply submit a brief -- an amicus brief, if

7 you will -- as information. Okay.

8 And so the proposed rule eliminates limited

9 intervention, but still allows tribes to submit a brief,

10 amicus brief, at the discretion of the presiding official.

11 We received lots of comments on closure orders

12 and whether or not 30 days was enough time to decide

13 whether or not to make that permanent.

14 The proposed rule provides for a hearing within

15 30 days unless waived by the appellant, which would be the

16 tribe, and then the Commission must issue a decision within

17 30 days of receiving the recommended decision from the

18 presiding official.

19 For those of you that have never dealt with this

20 before, what would happen would be once an appeal is filed

21 and there has been a request for an oral hearing, a

22 presiding official would be assigned. That presiding

23 official would hear evidence from the parties. The tribe

24 would be represented, the Commission would be

25 represented -- or, rather, the Chairwoman would be

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1 represented, and then the presiding official would issue a

2 recommended decision.

3 That recommended decision would go before the

4 full Commission and the full Commission would decide

5 whether or not to adopt it in whole, adopt it in part, or

6 decide that the presiding official just got it wrong and

7 they're going to issue their own decision.

8 There was also comments received about the

9 handling of confidential information. Oftentimes the

10 tribes will submit information as part of these appeals and

11 they want it to be handled in a confidential manner. It

12 could include financial information or information about

13 individuals within the tribe. And so the proposed rule is

14 address confidentiality.

15 As I mentioned, that section was on appeals

16 before a presiding official. There is a section on appeals

17 that are done simply on written submissions to the

18 Commission. And so you would take out the presiding

19 official and they would go directly to the Commission.

20 Oftentimes parties will want that to speed up the

21 process or -- as a way of saving money. You know, we know

22 travel expenses can be expensive and so there may be

23 instances where a party feels they don't need an oral

24 hearing, that the record is clear enough and that it should

25 go directly to the Commission. So you have that option of

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1 skipping a presiding official.

2 We've also addressed situations where one party

3 requested a presiding official and the other party requests

4 a hearing on written submission. We've also addressed

5 comments on whether or not closure orders should be made

6 permanent and when they should be made permanent, the

7 timing of it. And we've also addressed comments on who may

8 appeal. You know, who the tribe can designate to represent

9 them in an appeal.

10 So, that goes through our whole Appeals section.

11 It's a lot of reading. I know it took a long time for us

12 to put them together, and it's complicated. We went back

13 and forth on -- on, one, wanting it to be clear to everyone

14 how the process works, but also wanting it to be a fair

15 process for both of us, because it's not only the tribes

16 that have to follow this process, the Commission itself

17 that has to follow this process, and there are real

18 consequences. And we think that the proposed rule

19 clarifies a lot of these areas.

20 The rule as enacted now leaves a lot of

21 discretion out there, and when there's a lot of discretion

22 out there that is unknowns for the Commission, there are

23 unknowns for tribes, as I explained before, as to what

24 rights you have available to you, what is the standards

25 that we'll be using, what are the deadlines. So hopefully

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1 this will make the process a whole lot easier for everyone.

2 Do we have any comments or questions on that

3 area?

4 CHAIRWOMAN STEVENS: I just want to say that our

5 Vice-Chairwoman, Steffani Cochran, has been the lead on

6 this particular reg and several other regs, but -- and I'll

7 have her talk to this in just a moment -- but, you know,

8 one of the things that we wanted to do when we came in as a

9 Commission was to create some consistency and have these

10 unknowns become knowns.

11 These are sections that only attorneys would

12 really love and -- but they're important. It tells the

13 tribes and the person appealing, or the body -- or the

14 party appealing, how things work; tells the presiding

15 official, which is even more important, you know, what

16 happens and how it happens and in what process and what's

17 allowable, what's not allowable. And it tells us what we

18 need to be doing with some definite timeframes so that

19 everybody knows what the rules of the road are when you're

20 trying to appeal an action of the Agency.

21 And I do want to give credit to our staff in our

22 general counsel's office. They were really, really excited

23 about doing this. I think it's been something that has

24 been on their wish list for a few years, because they're

25 really the ones who have to handle appeals on behalf of the

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1 Commission, and they have done a really great job, and

2 we've gotten really great comments and have been able to

3 incorporate them into this.

4 But I do want to hand it over to Vice-Chairwoman

5 Cochran to make any comments about this particular section

6 specifically.

7 VICE-CHAIRWOMAN COCHRAN: Well, one of the things I

8 didn't mention when I introduced myself is I'm a lawyer --

9 my trade, that's my profession -- and I've represented many

10 pueblos -- either as a judge or as an attorney -- and my

11 experience in the southwest, and of course my experience

12 with tribes in the Oklahoma region, has to do with them

13 bringing in house counsel, using general counsel services

14 through their in-house attorneys, to be the

15 Jack-of-all-Trades. They're expecting their lawyers to be

16 able to handle housing, water, taxes, gaming.

17 And while I spend a great deal of time around

18 attorneys very well-versed in gaming law, and some very

19 excellent attorneys in this area, I do know that there is a

20 large portion of tribes out there who just can't afford

21 that type of expertise.

22 And when I looked at the appeals rules and I

23 couldn't navigate them, it really became important to me to

24 work on this particular area to make sure that a general

25 counsel sitting out there without a whole lot of gaming

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1 experience could have access to the experienced gaming

2 attorneys available through the Agency. And it had been a

3 long time since these issues had been touched. So it was

4 very important to me.

5 We're not all blessed with the ability to have

6 expertise in every area that tribes touch, and so the

7 staff, as the Chairwoman has noted, the office of general

8 counsel, worked extremely hard, put up with a lot of my

9 questions and lot of my prodding to get a product out there

10 which makes sense and put some of our practices into a

11 written form available and accessible to anyone. And

12 they've done a great job. And the comments that came in

13 made sense.

14 The only thing we couldn't really resolve was the

15 ex parte communications. The way it was written, there was

16 a lot of concern, and understandably so, so we've taken it

17 out of this draft so we can move forward with the rest of

18 the rules. But it is something we do need to go back and

19 to continue to work on and hopefully get some feedback

20 during this proposed rule making, the comment period.

21 So, that's kind of the genesis of this. And the

22 intent is to, again, bring clarity, even the playing field,

23 and to make a fair process, because the appeals can be so

24 incredibly important for the tribes, and we understand

25 that.

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1 MR. HAY: Any comments or questions on the Appeals

2 section?

3 MR. BURRIS: Tracy Burris again.

4 Just -- on the servicing part, you talk about

5 Saturday, Sunday, federal and legal holidays. What about

6 travel days? There is some of those that the federal

7 government shut down for -- sometimes on a Thursday and

8 Friday to go into an event that is very -- people that do

9 all this under the government portion. It's something to

10 consider.

11 CHAIRWOMAN STEVENS: Well, I appreciate that, and

12 we'll have to think about that because could mean 240

13 different types of holidays, and we have to think about how

14 this, for like general rules, you know, what normally would

15 happen. But so -- I don't know that we've thought of that

16 yet. So we'll have to take that into consideration.

17 VICE-CHAIRWOMAN COCHRAN: Tracy, if you want to

18 submit some language that would make -- I like the idea, I

19 absolutely agree if we can make it happen we should make it

20 happen without bringing confusion in. But there should be

21 a way. And I think it's a great idea because, again, where

22 I come from, a tribe can be closed for ceremonies for up to

23 a week. And so there is -- there's a lot of validity to it

24 if we can make it make sense.

25 CHAIRWOMAN STEVENS: I won't make any promises,

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1 though. We'll have to take a look to see what's suggested

2 and what's potentially out there and what that could mean.

3 MR. BURRIS: I'm just asking it be considered.

4 CHAIRWOMAN STEVENS: I appreciate that. Thanks.

5 MR. HAY: Looking at our agenda, we've finished the

6 first part of it rather quickly, and so maybe we should

7 take our break right now. Our morning break.

8 (Recess taken.)

9 CHAIRWOMAN STEVENS: Having had our morning break,

10 according to our agenda we are going to go into Group 4.

11 all of which should be in your packet.

12 These are regulations that are currently in the

13 Federal Register open for comment as notices of proposed

14 rule, so I'll turn it over to John.

15 Oh. Do we have some new people here that didn't

16 get to do an introduction? I see some folks here. If can

17 move the microphone around. Do we have a mobile

18 microphone?

19 MR. HAY: We do.

20 CHAIRWOMAN STEVENS: For those folks that came in and

21 didn't have an opportunity to introduce yourself, we're

22 going to start left and move around this way.

23 MR. MC AGEE: Ray MaGee, Commission Chairman Cahuilla

24 Tribal Gaming Agency.

25 MR. MALDONADO: Jason Maldonado, Commission Chair,

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1 Pechanga Gaming Commission.

2 MS. ECKSTEIN: Good morning. Dyann Eckstein,

3 Chairwoman for Picayune Rancheria Tribal Gaming Commission.

4 MR. VARGAS: Robert Vargas, Pechanga Gaming

5 Commission.

6 MR. RAMOS: Willie Ramos, Pechanga Gaming Commission.

7 MS. SULLIVAN: Good morning. I'm Jan Sullivan with

8 the Cabazon Tribal Gaming Commission.

9 MS. TAYLOR: Leslie Taylor, Delano (phonetically)

10 Nation.

11 MS. FISHMAN: Connie Fishman, Picayune Rancheria

12 Gaming Commission.

13 CHAIRWOMAN STEVENS: Welcome everyone. I appreciate

14 you all attending.

15 At this point we'll go ahead and continue on

16 Group 4. And we'll be talking about 556 and 558 first.

17 John.

18 MR. HAY: Okay. 556 are our background

19 investigations for PMOs and key employees, and 558 are

20 gaming licenses for key employees and primary management

21 officials. Part 537 are background investigations for

22 persons or entities with a financial interest in, or having

23 management responsibility for, a management contract.

24 All these were published in December of last

25 year. And the comment period closes on February 21st.

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1 I'm sure many of you are familiar with our pilot

2 program. This was started many, many years ago, and the

3 goal was to cut down on the amount of paperwork that was

4 submitted to NIGC when you made your licensing decisions.

5 What we have hoped to do with our regulations is

6 to formalize this pilot program, and so part 556 includes

7 all the procedures before a gaming license is issued.

8 Okay. So what that entails are the Gaming Commission's and

9 Gaming Regulators submitting your background results to

10 NIGC within 60 days of the individual starting work -- the

11 licensee starting work. Okay.

12 It also allows tribes with access to provide

13 prior investigative materials to another tribe so the NIGC

14 may update those materials as well. Okay.

15 And 558 would include everything -- all the

16 procedures after the gaming license is issued. Okay. So

17 that is the notice of results of NOR, which is what would

18 be submitted to NIGC. That was part of the pilot program,

19 was the initiation of the NOR. That allowed you to simply

20 submit to us the results rather than the full investigative

21 packet. And I think that's worked well. I think most

22 tribes -- and Eric can correct me -- in California have

23 been on the pilot program. Is that accurate?

24 MR. SCHALANSKY: Yes.

25 MR. HAY: And generally, most of the comments we have

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1 received on this have been favorable. The changes make it

2 a lot easier for tribes to submit this material, a lot less

3 burdensome, and I think it's a lot clearer.

4 The NIGC receive notification within 30 days of

5 receiving an NOR. Okay. If a license is issued prior to

6 objection, the licensee has the right to a notice and a

7 hearing. The tribe must suspend the license until the

8 hearing. Following the hearing, the tribe notify the NIGC

9 of the decision. Okay. If the tribe does not license the

10 applicant, they must notify the NIGC and provide a copy of

11 the eligibility determination and the investigative report.

12 Are there any comments on any of this before I

13 move on to the next section? Norm?

14 MR. DES ROSIERS: Yes. Thank you. Norm DesRosiers,

15 San Manuel. And I've submitted these comments in writing,

16 but I'd like an opportunity to maybe expand on them a

17 little.

18 5 -- let's see. First of all, in your published

19 proposed rule, in the beginning of the section you ask for

20 comments or opinions on whether or not an application

21 should require an applicant to list all associations they

22 belong to and pay dues to, and I'd like to weigh in on that

23 and say no, I don't think that should be there.

24 You know, one could belong to any number of

25 clubs, associations, personal or professional, with or

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1 without dues required, and if someone forgets to list one

2 of those then they could easily be in violation of the

3 application or the regulation.

4 You know, I just -- I don't think we need to go

5 there. I think the -- I don't think the value of that

6 information really -- really outweighs the trouble. So

7 that's all I have to say on that.

8 When you published the draft, before it was a

9 proposal, I made this comment, and I have to make it again.

10 Part 556.4, paragraph C, mandates the tribal investigator

11 shall keep confidential the identity of each person

12 interviewed in the course of a background investigation.

13 That's troublesome for -- certainly for my agency, and it

14 should be, I think, for a lot of other agencies.

15 First of all, you know, we -- we provide you the

16 steps taken in an investigation, and NIGC has never

17 dictated to us what steps those have to be. Let me give

18 you the results of that. One of the steps, of course, is

19 going to be interviewing people. It might be former

20 employers, it might be a former spouse, former associates,

21 coworkers. It could be any number of people.

22 The problem we encounter, if we're mandated to

23 keep it all confidential, is that if I -- if I make a

24 licensing decision relying on information that I got from a

25 particular person, and in my due process -- and I suspect

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1 most due process systems in most jurisdictions -- allow for

2 that license applicant to appeal a denial, and if in the

3 course of that appeal hearing they're denied the

4 opportunity of who gave witness about something that I've

5 relied upon as finding them unsuitable, it just denies

6 fairness in the process.

7 So, you know, I -- the response to my previous

8 comment on this was, "Well, it's always been there in the

9 regulation and we're not going to change it."

10 Now, you know, my policy, or Pechanga's policy,

11 or anybody else's policy, on confidentiality should be our

12 policy, and our due process should be our due process, and

13 it shouldn't be hindered by a mandate that we cannot, you

14 know, reveal the identity of who we're relying on to build

15 a determination.

16 I won't beat this to death anymore, but I

17 respectfully request that the NIGC eliminate that

18 paragraph. It's not needed. Thank you.

19 MR. HAY: Thank you.

20 MR. DES ROSIERS: Did we get to 558? Okay.

21 558.3, paragraph C. I think I know the intent

22 here. It says -- states in part: If a tribe does not

23 license an applicant, the tribe shall notify the Commission

24 and shall forward copies of its eligibility determination.

25 I point out to you that -- that you may want to

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1 rethink or reword that because there are many reason why we

2 may not issue a license to an applicant. Collectively, I

3 would imagine thousands of applicants around the country,

4 withdraw -- like they do in our jurisdiction -- withdraw

5 their application because it took too long, they got

6 another job, they moved, they relocated out of the area.

7 There may be any number of legitimate reasons why a license

8 is not issued to an applicant, and I don't think you really

9 want to know all those.

10 I think what you want to know is why a license is

11 denied to an applicant. So you might want to consider

12 changing that language: If a license is denied, you know,

13 let us know, give us the reasons. But not simply if a

14 license isn't issued -- the license isn't issued.

15 On those two parts, that's all I have.

16 MR. HAY: Anyone else have comment?

17 (No response.)

18 MR. HAY: Then we're going to move on to Part 537,

19 which are background investigations for persons or entities

20 with a financial interest in, or having management

21 responsibility for, a management contract.

22 The change that we are proposing would give the

23 Chair the discretion to reduce the scope of background

24 investigation information that was furnished by a tribe or

25 tribally-owned entities or national banks or institutional

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1 investors that are federally regulated. So that way if

2 there is information that someone has already reviewed,

3 they thought it would streamline the process if we weren't

4 duplicating that review.

5 And obviously this is within the discretion of

6 the Chair, and so what would happen is parties would write

7 into the Chair requesting a waiver for some of these

8 requirements.

9 You know, the purpose behind this is for us to

10 judge whether or not these individuals are suitable, and if

11 they are a national bank that's already regulated by a

12 different agency who was probably made a similar

13 determination, then our thoughts are maybe we don't have to

14 look at those individuals as closely as others.

15 Are there any comments on that? It's a short

16 change. And I'm going to say that the deadline for

17 comments is February 21st.

18 This was published in the Federal Register on

19 December 22nd. I think we received entirely favorable

20 comments on this issue, if we received any comments at all.

21 I don't remember anyone objecting to the change.

22 MR. DES ROSIERS: I have -- on 537 its entirety?

23 MR. HAY: Yes.

24 MR. DES ROSIERS: Paragraph 537.3(d), as in David, I

25 just -- and I'm just suggesting some -- a language change

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1 for clarification. Again, I think I know what you mean

2 here, but -- it states: The deposit will be returned to

3 the management contractor when all the bills have been paid

4 and the investigation's complete.

5 I think that implies when or however the bills

6 are paid, the investigation is complete, they're going to

7 get their whole deposit back. And I think maybe it would

8 read clearer is -- something to the effect of, you know,

9 any remaining balance of the deposit would be returned

10 after deducting costs and all that, instead of the deposit.

11 That's all I'm saying.

12 MR. HAY: So that people aren't confused thinking the

13 deposit is fully refundable after the fact and will be

14 working through it?

15 MR. DES ROSIERS: Right. That's all I have on that.

16 VICE-CHAIRWOMAN COCHRAN: Thank you, Norm.

17 MR. HAY: Any other comments?

18 (No response.)

19 MR. HAY: Okay. We're down to the last section that

20 we're looking at today, and it's a big one, it's 518, which

21 are the self-regulation of Class II Gaming.

22 I worked on these changes, and I know that we

23 have done a lot in terms of revising the entire process. I

24 was very happy to see that there is actually a

25 self-regulated tribe here. There are only two out there,

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1 and Grand Ronde is here with us today, and we appreciate

2 all the help that they've given us with their comments on

3 this issue.

4 You know, we always received many comments that

5 the process of becoming self-regulated was burdensome and

6 was too burdensome for the benefits that were received.

7 And so when we put this out to comment we were asking for,

8 you know, what do you mean by it's burdensome. You know,

9 we wanted to drill down to find out, you know, what were

10 the problem areas. Was it just that the standard was too

11 hard, or was it that the process was confusing or

12 duplicative of other processes, or whatever problems there

13 were in that process.

14 And we received a lot of great comments. And we

15 looked through it and we ourselves felt that it was a

16 confusing process for tribes who wanted to apply. It was a

17 long process, a ton of information needed to be submitted

18 to us, and as many tribes pointed out, it was information

19 that we already had in our possession and so why are we

20 asking for it twice.

21 And so we started thinking about those types of

22 changes: You know, how do we make the process clearer, how

23 do we make it easier. And during that there is one thing

24 that we -- that we kept coming back to, and that the

25 regulation as they were written now are looking at, for the

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1 most part, how the tribe operates its gaming facility, when

2 really the focus here should be how the tribe regulates its

3 gaming.

4 You know, we shouldn't be focusing on the

5 operation, we should be focusing on the regulation. So we

6 did an entire rewrite of the regulations. One, to clarify

7 the process, the standards that we'll be reviewing, and

8 also to clarify that the focus should be on the regulation

9 of the gaming and not on the actual operation. And we

10 received lots of comments from tribes.

11 We have gotten rid of the requirements that

12 tribes submit information that has already been submitted

13 to us. And I think that we have done all of this without

14 lowering the standards.

15 You know, a lot of -- well, the two tribes that

16 are self-regulated have said to us, you know,

17 "We're very proud that we're self-regulated, you know.

18 This shouldn't be something that everyone out there can

19 attain, you know, without even thinking, it should be

20 something special out there."

21 And I think we have maintained that while making

22 the process clearer so that more tribes when looking at the

23 regulations won't say, "Well, we couldn't possibly achieve

24 this." It's clear now that they can achieve it. And we're

25 hoping that when it's all said and done that more tribes

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1 will apply for self-regulation.

2 We've also changed the focus internally in that

3 prior -- prior to these drafts a lot of focus was placed on

4 the Office of Self-Regulation, in particular the one

5 commissioner who would be appointed that position. And so

6 we wanted this to be something that was before the entire

7 Commission from the start so that they were in on the

8 process.

9 And I think that our draft achieved that goal of

10 bringing them in early in the process and having tribes --

11 giving tribes the opportunity to interact with the

12 Commission when problems do arise.

13 We've given tribes the opportunity to withdraw

14 their petition at any time before acceptance or denial of

15 it. We've also given them an interim period where we

16 identified problems with their application and they have

17 the opportunity to respond before a decision has been made.

18 And so hopefully that collaborative process will allow

19 tribes to feel more comfortable about starting this.

20 Because I know if you just read the regulations,

21 it's kind of daunting everything that's required. And a

22 lot of these regulations, and -- in particular were done

23 before MICS were done, and so they include a lot of things

24 that would already be included in MICS now and would

25 already be required. And so by taking those out and saying

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1 that it's not a separate requirement, it's all part of the

2 same thing, we hope that makes it easier on tribes.

3 This will be published tomorrow, and the comments

4 deadline goes to April 2nd. We received a lot of comments

5 in the past, I hope we receive a lot on this draft. I know

6 a lot of people in our office have worked very hard on it

7 and I know our Commissioners have spent a lot of time with

8 it, and hopefully it's something that you'll view eagerly

9 as something that your tribe could benefit from.

10 Are there any comments on this?

11 MS. HARVEY: Denise Harvey, Chairwoman for the Grand

12 Ronde Gaming Commission.

13 I was just wondering -- we provided comments on a

14 couple of different issues, and I know that you have

15 another comment period April 2nd, but we were wondering

16 what the schedule is after that.

17 VICE-CHAIRWOMAN COCHRAN: Well, after that -- after

18 the next set of comments come in, then it will go out again

19 one more time for consultation before the final rule comes

20 out. So this is the second bite at the apple. So if

21 there's additional comments -- if you want to reiterate,

22 like Norm has done on behalf of San Manuel, if you want to

23 reiterate comments to us based on the notice proposes we're

24 making, then we certainly welcome them.

25 The first set of comments that came out on it

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1 were on a discussion round.

2 MS. HARVEY: So when -- will we have a timeline of

3 when that will be completed?

4 VICE-CHAIRWOMAN COCHRAN: No, not -- let's see.

5 April -- no. I don't -- as far as it making it to final

6 rule? No. Most of them we're getting back out as soon

7 as -- once they go out in the notice proposal, we're

8 making -- the attorneys and the staff will spend some time

9 looking at the comments, preparing revisions, meeting with

10 us to see what our policy cuts are to make sure that those

11 are included in the discussion, then it will be republished

12 again.

13 And that process is taking a couple of weeks

14 right now in between the cutoff date once the comment

15 period closes and then us getting it back into the Federal

16 Register.

17 MS. HARVEY: Thank you.

18 MR. HAY: I'd like to go through how we kind of

19 structured this. As I mentioned before, we wanted the

20 focus to be on the regulatory aspects and not on the

21 operational aspects, and so 518.4 includes submission

22 requirements.

23 So, what we'll be looking at, what the Commission

24 will be looking at, is the history of the gaming

25 operations. You know, we'd like an organizational chart

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1 for your regulatory body. We want to look at the

2 experience of your regulators, we want to look at the

3 funding of the regulation, we want to look at who your

4 current regulators are, and we want to look at, you know,

5 what kind of accounting system the gaming operation is

6 using. Okay. Those are kind of some core areas that we

7 think are important to the regulation of the gaming.

8 And so what we envision happening is the tribe

9 will submit this to us and then within the Agency the

10 Chairwoman will appoint a commissioner to oversee the

11 review of this material, and that commissioner will pick a

12 team out of our staff to review the information, and as

13 well as to possibly perform a site visit to gather more

14 information, and those will be the kind of point of contact

15 for the tribe in dealing with this whole process and going

16 through it. And so it's -- it's one of those processes

17 where we envision a ton of interaction between staff and

18 the tribal regulators.

19 518 includes more of the submission requirements.

20 There are internal controls that need to be submitted.

21 Your recordkeeping system for investigations. You know, if

22 you do your own investigations, how do you maintain your

23 records, are they -- are they secure, do you hold on to

24 them for a period of years?

25 And we're not -- we haven't put out there any

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1 specific mandates in this area saying you have to do it in

2 this fashion, or this is what we're looking for. These are

3 just areas that we want to look at to see what type of

4 regulatory structure you have in place and how you operate

5 on a daily basis.

6 We want a copy of your current tribal gaming

7 regulations -- sometimes tribes submit those to us with

8 their ordinance -- so we would have them on record, but

9 otherwise we'd like to take a look at them.

10 And we've also received a lot comments from

11 tribes asking us to not ask for information they have

12 already submitted to us. So if they submitted information

13 to us such as an ordinance, if they submitted other

14 information to BIA, then we shouldn't ask for it twice.

15 We're in the federal government, we should have

16 access to it, so that would cut down on some of the

17 submissions to us.

18 518.5 looks at what criteria the tribe must meet.

19 And they're fairly straightforward: Effective and honest

20 accounting of revenues, reputation for safe, fair and

21 honest operation; physically and economically sound basis,

22 and operation generally free of criminal or dishonest

23 activity. And, most importantly, that the gaming has been

24 conducted in compliance with federal and tribal

25 regulations.

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1 We're also looking at what types of systems the

2 tribe has put in place, you know, for accounting of

3 revenues, for investigation, licensing, monitoring of

4 gaming employees, as well as their investigation,

5 enforcement and prosecution of violations.

6 I know some people have questions about the word

7 "prosecution." We use that just to mirror some of language

8 that tribes themselves use within their codes. All of you

9 may not have that, but I believe some tribes do use that

10 language.

11 518.5 lists examples of how a tribe may

12 illustrate it has met the criteria. Okay. These are just

13 examples, they're not exhaustive. The Tribal Gaming

14 Regulatory Body monitors compliance with applicable laws

15 and regulations including MICS, monitors effectiveness of

16 revenue accounting system, audits Class II gaming

17 activities, and reviews accounting information from the

18 operation.

19 We have also changed the process hopefully to

20 streamline it and to set out some clear deadlines. Okay.

21 As I mentioned, the Office of Self-Regulation is the office

22 within the Agency that would be conducting the review.

23 Okay.

24 So they receive your petition and within 30 days

25 they will notify you as to whether or not it is complete or

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1 its incomplete. Okay. Within 120 days of receiving that

2 application, or that complete application, the Office of

3 Self-Regulation would provide a recommendation report to

4 the Commission and the tribe. Okay.

5 So what will happen in that 120 days is our staff

6 will be reviewing everything that has been submitted to us,

7 as well as performing any site visits that are needed.

8 they will put together a report which will include a

9 recommendation whether or not they think that the tribe's

10 petition should be granted or denied, that will go to the

11 tribe and to the Commission. Okay.

12 That provides the tribe an opportunity at that

13 point to respond to that report and so they can lay out

14 basically anything they want. It's pretty wide open. You

15 can say, one, NIGC, you're reviewing this information

16 incorrectly; NIGC, you don't have all of the information,

17 or, hey, you know, we looked at that, you're right and we

18 want to change it. So basically it's pretty open-ended as

19 to how the tribe can respond. Okay.

20 The Commission will then issue its preliminary

21 findings. Okay. And after that the tribe may request a

22 hearing after receiving the preliminary findings. So again

23 that's another opportunity for the tribe in the process

24 before a final decision is made. Okay.

25 A hearing can take place, and it's 30 days after

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1 that hearing that the Commission will issue its decision.

2 Now, obviously if everything is positive along the way, the

3 tribe won't want to request a hearing, most likely, and so

4 the -- there won't be any problems and the process will be

5 a little shorter at that point. And the tribe can withdraw

6 the petition any time prior to the final decision.

7 As I said, we received a lot of comments on this

8 area. One of the biggest one is that the process was

9 unclear and needed to clarify. So hopefully we've done

10 that.

11 Again, the comment said the Commission should

12 consider all the submission requirements and not just the

13 Office of Self-Regulation, and so that's why we included

14 that extra tier of review for the Commission to be involved

15 and to interact with the tribe.

16 And, you know, the process should involve our

17 staff working with the tribes. And hopefully the time

18 periods that we've allowed within the draft regulation will

19 allow us to do that. So it is an open dialogue and it's

20 not simply "here's our packet" and the next thing you hear

21 from us is either a thumbs up or a thumbs down.

22 There are annual reporting requirements. Okay.

23 They are an independent audit and a complete résumé for all

24 employees of tribal regulatory body prior to license by the

25 tribe after receiving a certificate of self-regulation.

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1 Okay. That language comes directly from the statute and so

2 it is mirrored in the regulation.

3 518.11. The tribe has a continuing duty to

4 inform the Commission of changes in circumstance material

5 to approval of this Part. For instance, if you submit an

6 application to us and we go through the entire process and

7 we approve your application, and then six months later the

8 tribe cuts regulatory funding by 75 percent, we would

9 consider that something that was material to the approval

10 and we would want to look at it and you would have to

11 supply us with that information.

12 Comments suggested that the Commission define

13 tribal regulator. The Commission decided not to do that

14 just because so many tribes use different titles for their

15 regulatory body, so we've left that open.

16 Section 518.12 provides a reference to IGRA, NIGC

17 powers limited during self-regulation. I know we received

18 a lot of comments here during the process. A lot of

19 individuals who said, "Why do you even have this section at

20 all? Do you even need it? All you're simply doing is

21 reiterating what the statute says."

22 You know, yes, it's superfluous, the statute

23 already says it, we don't have to say it; but, on the other

24 hand, it provides clarity to tribes. So that's obviously

25 out there for comment.

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1 And that was probably the biggest comment there

2 as to -- on that section, was whether or not we needed to

3 continually restate what IGRA said.

4 We've gone back and forth on this. Most of the

5 time when we do include statutory language in the

6 regulations it's because we want to provide clarity so that

7 tribes have a roadmap for the process.

8 I think we've covered all the sections today. Do

9 we have any more comments on self-regulation? Or if anyone

10 wants to go back to any of the other areas that we've

11 covered?

12 MR. DES ROSIERS: Thank you, John. Norm DesRosiers,

13 San Manuel. A few comments.

14 I can see the benefit of asking for an org chart.

15 I don't see the benefit in needing to know the name of

16 every employee of the Agency, and that can change by the

17 day. You know, I mean, I've got 125 people including

18 surveillance, so what -- why is there a need for that?

19 MR. HAY: Well, I think when we were looking at this

20 we just didn't know where to cut it off. You know,

21 which -- how far down the levels of employees within the

22 Gaming Commission we had to look at. Obviously we don't

23 care about your janitors, but we may care about some of

24 your administrative staff depending on what their functions

25 are, what their responsibilities are. And so maybe --

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2 chart, maybe -- maybe job descriptions or the positions on

3 that org chart would give you all that. Why do you need

4 the name of every individual employee?

5 VICE-CHAIRWOMAN COCHRAN: Actually, Norm, IGRA

6 requires the name for every employee of the tribe. What

7 we've done here is to -- even to set -- administratively

8 interpret that only to apply to the regulatory body. And

9 that's been part of the problem with compliance -- and

10 granted Dawn Unger (phonetically) can speak to this --

11 listing out complete résumés for every employee of the

12 tribe, obviously is extensively burdensome. So that's

13 where this comes from.

14 MR. DES ROSIERS: Well, like I said, it's not very

15 practical. I mean, it's -- by the time I submit that list

16 of names to you, by the time you get out and start doing a

17 review, it could change and change, you know, two weeks

18 when you're done with your review. You know, that list of

19 names changes constantly, and I don't know -- it doesn't

20 make sense.

21 VICE-CHAIRWOMAN COCHRAN: Thank you.

22 MR. DES ROSIERS: The list of the internal controls.

23 Here again, if our outside independent audit each year

24 is -- you know, that we send you is accompanied with an

25 AUP, agreed upon procedures, document that the outside

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2 exceed NIGC's, I'm just wondering why you need another list

3 of all the controls.

4 MR. HAY: I think that was -- a lot of the

5 information that we requested is to help our field staff

6 when they actually go out and look at these things to

7 verify it so that, you know, they can go down and create

8 their own checklist to make sure that those systems are be

9 used and independently verify that.

10 MR. DES ROSIERS: Okay. And my last comment is this.

11 And I understand that there's a legitimate need or reason

12 why you would want to ensure that the tribe is complying

13 with all applicable laws and regulations. I mean, if

14 they're not, then they shouldn't be self-regulated,

15 obviously.

16 But it raises a couple of questions: How far

17 does that go? Because are you going to do a compact

18 compliance review? There's a whole bunch of stuff we need

19 to comply with there that, you know -- but it's not Class

20 II, so -- I don't know where that stops.

21 My other comment is -- IGRA obviously is an

22 applicable law, and this goes kind of back to what Tracy

23 brought up earlier. The use of revenues is often rolled

24 into one of those uses as revenue allocation plans, and

25 you've got to have one and you're supposed to comply with

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1 it. And so is that part of self-regulating, to ensure that

2 you have a plan if you're making distributions and

3 complying with that plan.

4 I mention that for a couple of reasons: One, in

5 my experience, NIGC -- maybe you haven't had this in recent

6 years, but in years past there were a number of tribes with

7 a lot of internal political problems and accusations coming

8 to NIGC that their tribe was not complying with the revenue

9 allocation plan, they were was misspending, and there was

10 all kinds of stuff that were kind of forcing us to have to

11 take a look at things to see if they're complying with

12 IGRA, the use of revenue. That's one concern.

13 The other is -- in fact, I have submitted -- many

14 years ago when I was at Viejas -- a petition for

15 self-regulation review, and because of some glitches with

16 the RAP I had to withdraw that because of the -- the

17 allocation plan was in transition and being revised and all

18 that, and so we never went back and finished.

19 So, anyway, that RAP is an issue. Or is it? It

20 seems to me that if you're looking at compliance with

21 applicable laws and regulations that -- I'm wondering is

22 that an issue.

23 MR. HAY: I can't recall us ever discussing it in

24 terms of a Compact, to answer your first question. You

25 know, that's between the tribe and the state. So, granted

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2 or Compact violations, but this is Class II, and so I think

3 that that would not be the focus of anything that we would

4 be doing in terms of this.

5 As for RAPs, you know, we didn't specifically

6 discuss that when we were reviewing it, and none of the

7 comments that we received to date raised that as an issue.

8 But it would be something, you know, that we have to -- to

9 answer your concern there.

10 CHAIRWOMAN STEVENS: I think our bigger concern is

11 if, you know, a tribe applies for a certificate of

12 self-regulation and they're giving out per capitas from

13 gaming revenue without a RAP, that might be a problem. I

14 think that's probably a bigger concern.

15 The specificity of whether the tribe is following

16 the RAP, which has been brought up, it sounds like at least

17 twice this morning, we hadn't talked about specifically,

18 but it certainly can give us something to think about when

19 we're looking at the regs and what do we mean by "all

20 applicable laws."

21 MR. BURRIS: Question: John, you said to help your

22 field people to put forward a checklist, if you will. Do

23 you perceive you guys making -- creating a checklist off of

24 this? And I realize it's additional work. But that would

25 clarify some of these areas of where you may go or not go

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2 CHAIRWOMAN STEVENS: That's a really good point,

3 Tracy. And I appreciate your bringing that up.

4 One of the things we are trying to do is create

5 consistency across the Agency, so you saw that in the

6 appeals -- you know, you see when you submit an ordinance

7 we have a checklist for the ordinance. You know, when

8 we're doing -- when we're talking about 556 and 558, not

9 only are we looking at creating some consistency there, but

10 we're also going to look at -- when we implement these,

11 we're going to be looking at how internally we're going to

12 adjust to this so that there is consistency across the

13 region.

14 Because we don't want one region with a checklist

15 when doing a self-regulation review, and another region

16 with a different checklist, because that's mayhem making.

17 We don't want that, that sends the wrong message and it's

18 confusing to everyone.

19 So yes, we would be looking at -- not only just

20 for this reg, but all the regs -- how we're going to go

21 about this process and let tribes know what those internal

22 processes are so they know what to expect.

23 MR. HAY: Any other comments?

24 MR. BURRIS: John, I do, and it's just -- I'm going

25 to go back to 556.4 on the background investigations,

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1 number 3. It's listing for personal references.

2 Is there any way in the world we could strike

3 that and get rid of those? Because they serve no purpose.

4 I have probably done 15- or 16,000 background license

5 checks, and only probably five or six times have I ever got

6 a bad one.

7 My thought would be is that we use personal --

8 those are individuals that are at work during the time our

9 investigators or background people are working in the

10 normal day, so we're sitting here until the evening time

11 trying to tie those people down.

12 You know, people can give us 10 references and we

13 may only get a ahold of three of them if were lucky. So I

14 think, on average, everyone would tell you that we're lucky

15 to get two of the three.

16 But we spend so much time on leaving this

17 document open, because we spend a day on it, then we have

18 to balance a week because we got so many to do. This is

19 just a time management thing. And I don't know of anywhere

20 in the Act itself that requires a personal reference.

21 And I just personally think it's a waste of time,

22 a waste of manpower, and -- and these other companies and

23 sources that we use are working during business times, so

24 I'm trying to float people to stay until 7:00 o'clock at

25 night trying to catch people at dinnertime that don't want

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2 and to me it has no merit personally.

3 CHAIRWOMAN STEVENS: Okay. Well, thanks for bringing

4 that up, and we'll have to take a look at it.

5 I'm just thinking about other processes that

6 require those kinds of references and during a certain time

7 frame. We'll have to think about how that might work.

8 MR. BURRIS: We spend hours and hours trying to track

9 down to get someone to say something that 99 percent of the

10 time they'll say "Oh, they're great. Fine. Yeah. Sure

11 yes, I wish I had hired them." But that's another story.

12 MR. HAY: We've covered everything on the agenda --

13 MR. DES ROSIERS: Well, I have to -- Tracy's right,

14 you know. And I've done I don't know how many tens of

15 thousand of background; if you want to dig up dirt on

16 somebody, you ask former spouses and former business

17 partners and that kind of thing.

18 CHAIRWOMAN STEVENS: I know I've gone through a

19 pretty extensive background check to sit here. But we'll

20 have to take a look at that and see.

21 MR. BURRIS: I think in this time and age it's -- and

22 I've always thought it was -- it was a difference of how

23 many -- you know, you get a large amount of number of

24 employees and renewing every two years, plus what you're

25 doing, and you're checking those personal references, it's

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2 CHAIRWOMAN STEVENS: And I bet you can probably find

3 out a lot even if you Google somebody.

4 But we'll take a look at that, and maybe see what

5 the origins of this was -- this particular requirement and,

6 you know, what usefulness it had at the time that we looked

7 at it.

8 And even in the pilot program -- I'm sure this is

9 where it originated -- and I could swear when I was first

10 licensed by my facility, you know, asking -- they asked for

11 that and, you know, maybe it's a question of is it still

12 relevant. So thanks, Tracy.

13 Any others?

14 CHAIRWOMAN STEVENS: Okay. Well, I appreciate

15 everybody attending. I know that a number of these aren't

16 even in the Federal Register yet, but we have 60 day

17 comment period which will end April 2nd on many of these.

18 As pointed out in the public -- in the copies you

19 have, some of them are February 21st and 27, and we will

20 continue to have consultations. So given that you might

21 not have had an opportunity to read some of these, you do

22 have 60 days to comment and provide written comments to

23 that address, or you can mail them in.

24 So, again, I appreciate everybody's time. Did

25 you want to wrap anything up?

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1 VICE-CHAIRWOMAN COCHRAN: I just will re-echo the

2 Chairwoman. Thank you so much for your time. We know that

3 you're extremely busy, and we appreciate it when you come

4 to sit with us and talk about these things, and we look

5 forward to the next set of consultations and the next set

6 of groups that we'll cover. And I wish you safe travels

7 back to your home.

8 CHAIRWOMAN STEVENS: Okay. Our next consultation

9 will happen at Shelton, Washington, immediately following

10 the Affiliated Tribes of North. After that we'll --

11 February 22nd we'll be in Albuquerque, New Mexico, Isleta

12 Hard Rock.

13 And then we're working on some other dates so

14 that we cover the entire period of the comment period. But

15 those are up in the air right now, so we'll be sure to let

16 you know what we're looking at until we can confirm those

17 dates, but we're looking at times in March to go to

18 different parts of the country. We're trying to reach all

19 the regions as we go, and try to keep in mind winter

20 conditions as well. So, as we confirm more dates in March,

21 we will put out that information on our website and send

22 them to your tribes. We put them -- we put all the

23 information out there and we'll let you know.

24 So, again, thank you very much, and safe travels

25 to you all. And thank you for coming quite a distance.

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