---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 459f–9"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "459f–9"
heading: "Public utility facilities; purchase of facilities without value to utility; amount of payment"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/459f-9"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores"
  - "Subchapter LXIII — National Seashore Recreational Areas"
---

# §459f–9. Public utility facilities; purchase of facilities without value to utility; amount of payment


The [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) of the Interior is authorized to purchase from a public utility any facilities of that utility which are no longer of value to it as a result of the establishment of the Assateague Island National Seashore and shall pay for such facilities an amount equal to the cost of constructing such facilities less depreciation.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 89–195, § 10, Sept. 21, 1965, 79 Stat. 827.)