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Washington cardrooms object to study13 June 2008WASHINGTON -- As reported by the Columbian: "Federal officials must immediately withdraw the final study for the Cowlitz casino and issue a revised document that reflects current conditions, an attorney representing La Center's four cardrooms demanded Thursday. "Guy Martin, an attorney with the Perkins Coie in Washington, D.C., said the document, released May 30, fails to account for a recent decision by a state hearings board that caused the 152-acre site to revert to farmland. "The casino's final environmental impact statement also does nothing to address 'scathing criticism' by local governments after reviewing the May 2006 draft study, Martin wrote in a letter to George Skibine, acting assistant Interior secretary for Indian affairs..." |