However, the issue of the federal ownership of nonfederal assets is controversial.

It was authorized for federal ownership and administration by an act of Congress on July 30, 1965.

In Utah, the Mormons also moved in before federal ownership was obtained.

Like most of the West, the area is a checkerboard of private, state and federal ownership.

Over 90% of the land of Daggett County is under federal ownership.

When additional subscriptions were made from other sources, federal ownership in the banks was retired.

The company was now 90% in federal ownership.

Battery Island, under reluctant federal ownership, became an embarrassing footnote to a singularly useless war.

The issue of state versus federal ownership has a long and contentious history (see Tidelands).

When public meetings were held to evaluate this idea, there was strong local support for continued federal ownership.