Advancing the discussion of last year’s popular session, it has been more than a year since the Department of the Interior's amendments to 25 CFR Part 293 have been in effect and the impact has been far-reaching with compacts having been disapproved, other compacts having gone into effect as “deemed approved”  and Secretarial Procedures in lieu of compacts being issued. The panel will discuss how the procedures have created a sea-change at the compact negotiation table and ongoing lawsuits that tests the strength and implications of the "deemed-approved" compact.