Abstract
The United States Government is the largest landowner in the country. National parks, national forests, national seashores, and countless other holdings make up Uncle Sam’s real estate portfolio. And while the government has divested itself of some land in recent years, in 1983 it set about acquiring the entire town of Times Beach, Missouri, and some smaller pieces of that state. And it is not because Times Beach is a national historic site, in the traditional sense, or because it will become a national park, or even a retirement community for former Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) officials. Missouri, it turns out, could easily change its nickname from the “Show Me State” to the “Dioxin State, ” and Times Beach, the streets of which are paved with dioxin, could be the new capital.1
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