After attempting several times to come to an agreement with Florida Governor, Jeb Bush, to allow slot machines on South Florida Indian reservation lands, the Seminole Indian Tribe has beseeched the federal government to step in. Under a clause that allows for the U.S. Interior Department to supercede state and tribal negotiations if no agreement can be made between said parties, it appears likely the Department of Interior will indeed fulfill its role and step in to resolve the matter.

As of yet, it appears the Department of Interior has already drawn up twenty-eight pages of legislative procedures that dictate precisely how an undisclosed number of Las Vegas casino-style slot machines could be operated and regulated on Seminole reservation lands in Florida. Serving as somewhat of a default regulation guideline, the federal guidelines will likely become written into law by the end of Novermber if the State of Florida and Seminole tribe do not come to a "compact" agreement of their own.

Florida would be passing up some serious change in casino slots revenue if they were to deny the Seminole's from operating more slot machines, which the tribe says is essentially their response to competing with South Florida race track operators and the Dania Jai-Alai, who were recently permitted to operate slot machines in Broward County.

If the State of Florida does indeed feel they do not need more gambling revenue, the U.S. Interior Department will be there to take up the slack, for their proposed regulations would not give taxable casino gambling revenues back to the State. If Florida allows this to happen, they will join the ranks of only one other state who has casino gambling within their borders but does not have a revenue sharing plan with the casino operators.

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