Source: Scoping Report - Tule River Tribe Fee-to-Trust and Eagle Mountain Casino Relocation Project The tribe owns the land but it must be placed in trust gaming can occur there.Īn aerial view of a potential site plan for the new Eagle Mountain Casino in Porterville, California. Plans call for Eagle Mountain, currently located on the reservation, to be moved to a 40-acre site near the Porterville Airport Industrial Park, less than 20 miles away. 'The new facility would replace the tribe’s existing casino, and the existing casino buildings would be converted to tribal government or service uses' The notice, which was signed by Tara Sweeney, the recently-installed Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs, reads.
'The proposed casino-hotel resort would include a hotel, convention center, multipurpose event space, several restaurant facilities, parking facilities and water reclamation infrastructure, Notice of the document's availability is being published in the Federal Register on Friday. The Tule River Tribe is taking a big step forward with plans to relocate its casino to an off-reservation site in northern California.Ī long-awaited environmental impact statement for the move of the Eagle Mountain Casino is finally being made public.
