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This ordinance gave the federal government the right to manage unsettled land
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Citizens could claim 160 acres of public land. After living on it for 5 years, they could own it for a fee of $16
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The act provided land for $5 per acre and allowed mining to occur subject to local customs with no government oversight
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he Atomic Energy Act of 1946 (McMahon Act) determined how the United States federal government would control and manage the nuclear technology it had jointly developed with its wartime allies, the United Kingdom and Canada.
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the fundamental U.S. law on both the civilian and the military uses of nuclear materials
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This policy is promoting enhancement of our environment. It also established the President's Council on Environmental Quality.
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Signed into law by President Richard Nixon on December 28, 1973, it was designed to protect critically imperiled species from extinction
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"It is designed to preserve a number of notable natural features in the American landscape."
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a conservation law in the United States that prohibits trade in wildlife, fish, and plants that have been illegally taken, possessed, transported or sold.
