California (Indian Gaming) - Sonja Bjelland, The Press-Enterprise - Mini-Nashville, West Coast style, may be in the works for the San Jacinto Valley, but the timeline depends on Congress. While in the early stages, the Soboba Band of Luiseño Indians has plans to put a hotel and casino near the town. The county wants that to be a catalyst for tourist growth on the west side of Diamond Valley Lake…In 2003, the tribe acquired 128 acres at the intersection of Domenigoni Parkway and Winchester Road west of Hemet as settlement with the Metropolitan Water District in a decades-long water dispute. To make that land part of the tribe's reservation, it will need an act of Congress to avoid a lengthy process through the Interior Department, said Andrew Masiel, tribal administrator. If all goes as planned, that same act will allow gaming on the land. Tribal officials are planning to go to Washington, D.C., in February or March to work on the bill.

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