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OKLAHOMA CITY — The Muscogee (Creek) Nation supports a bill aimed at completing the American Indian Cultural Center and Museum, Principal Chief George Tiger said Friday.

Senate Bill 1641 would tap $40 million from the state's Unclaimed Property Fund to be matched with $40 million in private donations to finish the facility in Oklahoma City.

The fund consists of money remitted to the state by businesses on behalf of people to whom those businesses owe money but can't find. It contains about $90 million.

The bill passed the Senate in March by a vote of 30-17, and it passed the House Appropriations and Budget Subcommittee on Natural and Regulatory Services on Tuesday. It must get through the entire Appropriations and Budget Committee before being heard on the House floor.

Tiger said his tribe has given $250,000 to finish the facility. Supporters say they have already raised the $40 million in private donations.

"The tribes as well as the private sector were asked to raise $40 million and the state would match it," Tiger said. "We have done our part as far as we have been asked to do. So, basically we are saying as long as the tribes have been asked to do some of these things, we feel like the state needs to come through with what they said they would do."