---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 460u–17"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "460u–17"
heading: "Lands within area I–E used for solid waste disposal"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/460u-17"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores"
  - "Subchapter LXXIX — Indiana Dunes National Park"
---

# §460u–17. Lands within area I–E used for solid waste disposal

- (a) **Commitment to reclaim land at no expense to Federal Government—** The [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) may not [acquire](/usc/16/620e.md?p=1) such lands within the western section of [area](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A) I–E, as designated on [map](/usc/16/430f–7.md?p=1) numbered 626–91007, which have been used for solid waste disposal until he has received a commitment, in accordance with a plan acceptable to him, to reclaim such lands at no expense to the Federal Government.
- (b) **Cooperation with State of Indiana or subdivision thereof to develop area—** With respect to the property identified as [area](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A) I–E on [map](/usc/16/430f–7.md?p=1) numbered 626–91007, the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) may enter into a cooperative agreement whereby the [State](/usc/16/590q.md?p=a) of Indiana or any political [subdivision](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=15) thereof may undertake to develop, manage, and interpret such [area](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A) in a manner consistent with the purposes of this subchapter.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 89–761, § 17, formerly § 18, as added and renumbered Pub. L. 94–549, § 1(8), (9), Oct. 18, 1976, 90 Stat. 2531, 2533.)