ELR Citation: ELR 20448
No(s). 79-260 (U.S. Apr 16, 1980)

The Supreme Court holds that the Carey Act of 1894 neither reserves a specific acreage of public domain desert land for any state nor automatically obligates the Secretary of the Interior to grant specific lands chosen by a state. In order to aid states in the reclamation of desert land, the Carey A...