For which of the following reasons did the federal government refuse to transfer public domain lands to the states?
A. Such transfers were ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court.
B. Such transfers would raise the question of who would regulate waterways that ran through more than one state.
C. Such transfers would deny the federal government the power to control water and land conservation.
D. The federal government feared that such transfers would lead to ecological problems associated with practices such as strip mining.
Answer: B
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