Office of Energy and Environmental Law. Monograph 1. State and Federal Claims to Submerged Lands in the Mississippi Sound

摘要

With the discovery of natural gas in Mobile Bay, the development of additional drilling sites in Mobile Bay and the Mississippi Sound is a certainty. There exists, however, conflicting federal and state claims to ownership of some submerged lands in the Mississippi Sound. This booklet discusses the development of the law governing the ownership of submerged lands, and questions whether Alabama and Mississippi have a claim to the submerged land that pre-dates the federal claim.