---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 459h–3"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "459h–3"
heading: "Rights-of-way or easements for transportation of oil and gas minerals"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/459h-3"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores"
  - "Subchapter LXIII — National Seashore Recreational Areas"
---

# §459h–3. Rights-of-way or easements for transportation of oil and gas minerals


Any [acquisition](/usc/16/620e.md?p=1) of lands, waters, or interests therein shall not diminish any existing rights-of-way or easements which are necessary for the transportation of oil and gas minerals through the seashore which oil and gas minerals are removed from outside the boundaries thereof; and, the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1), subject to appropriate regulations for the protection of the natural and recreational values for which the seashore is established, shall permit such additional rights-of-way or easements as he deems necessary and proper.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 91–660, § 4, Jan. 8, 1971, 84 Stat. 1968.)