sentences:  The United States failed to make any but the first payment to the Shoshone, but exercised its rights of access, passage and taking of territory for the construction of railroads, and later of federal agency management, by such agencies as the Bureau of Land Management, of what it called federal public lands.Because the tribe still legally controls the territory, the United States Department of Energy was unable to prove ownership of land for construction of the proposed Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository.It withdrew its license application for the facility.