The Indian Gaming Regulatory Act (IGRA
or the Act), 25 U.S.C. 2701, et seq., laid out a comprehensive
framework for the regulation of gaming on Indian lands. Amongst
other actions necessary to carry out the Commission’s statutory
duties, the Act requires Indian tribes that conduct a class II
and/or class III gaming activity to pay annual fees to the
Commission on the basis of the assessable gross revenues of each
gaming operation using rates established by the Commission. 25
U.S.C. 2717. The Commission is authorized to “promulgate such
regulations and guidelines as it deems appropriate to implement”
IGRA. 25 U.S.C. 2706(b)(10). The Commission has promulgated part
514 of title 25, Code of Federal Regulations, to implement these
statutory requirements. Section 514.6 requires a tribe to submit,
along with its fee payments, quarterly fee statements (worksheets)
showing its assessable gross revenues for the previous fiscal year
in order to support the computation of fees paid by each gaming
operation. Section 514.7 requires a tribe to submit a notice within
30 days after a gaming operation changes its fiscal year. Section
514.15 allows a tribe to submit fingerprint cards to the Commission
for processing by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), along
with a fee to cover the NIGC’s and FBI’s cost to process the
fingerprint cards on behalf of the tribes. Part of this collection
is mandatory and the other part is voluntary. The required
submission of the fee worksheets allows the Commission to both set
and adjust fee rates, and to support the computation of fees paid
by each gaming operation. In addition, the voluntary submission of
fingerprint cards allows a tribe to conduct statutorily mandated
background investigations on applicants for key employee and
primary management official positions.
US Code:
25
USC 2701 Name of Law: Indian Gaming Regulatory Act
In this collection cycle, the
number of fingerprints processed under part 514.15 decreased and
this led to an overall decline in total annual responses. The
decrease in fingerprints being processed was likely due to the
growing stability of personnel at tribal facilities and, therefore,
amounted to there being less activity associated with employment
applicant processing. This decrease in responses resulted in the
decreases in Annual Burden Hours and Non-Burden Hour Costs.
$131,590
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Tim Osumi 202 632-7054
tim_osumi@nigc.gov
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On behalf of this Federal agency, I certify that
the collection of information encompassed by this request complies
with 5 CFR 1320.9 and the related provisions of 5 CFR
1320.8(b)(3).
The following is a summary of the topics, regarding
the proposed collection of information, that the certification
covers:
(i) Why the information is being collected;
(ii) Use of information;
(iii) Burden estimate;
(iv) Nature of response (voluntary, required for a
benefit, or mandatory);
(v) Nature and extent of confidentiality; and
(vi) Need to display currently valid OMB control
number;
If you are unable to certify compliance with any of
these provisions, identify the item by leaving the box unchecked
and explain the reason in the Supporting Statement.