---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 460z–9"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "460z–9"
heading: "Water utilization; transportation of wastes; easements"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/460z-9"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores"
  - "Subchapter LXXXIV — Oregon Dunes National Recreation Area"
---

# §460z–9. Water utilization; transportation of wastes; easements

- (a) **Water utilization—** The [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) is authorized and directed, subject to applicable water quality standards now or hereafter established, to permit, subject to reasonable rules and regulations, the investigation for, appropriation, storage, and withdrawal of ground water, surface water, and lake, stream, and river water from the recreation [area](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A) and the conveyance thereof outside the boundaries of the recreation [area](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A) for beneficial use in accordance with applicable laws of the United States and of the [State](/usc/16/590q.md?p=a) of Oregon if permission therefor has been obtained from the [State](/usc/16/590q.md?p=a) of Oregon before March 23, 1972: Provided, That nothing herein shall prohibit or authorize the prohibition of the use of water from Tahkenitch or Siltcoo Lakes in accordance with permission granted by the [State](/usc/16/590q.md?p=a) of Oregon prior to March 23, 1972, in connection with certain industrial plants developed or being developed at or near Gardiner, Oregon.
- (b) **Transportation and storage of wastes—** The [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) is authorized and directed, subject to applicable water quality standards now or hereafter established, to permit, subject to reasonable rules and regulations, transportation and storage in pipelines within and through the recreation [area](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A) of domestic and industrial wastes in accordance with applicable laws of the United States and of the [State](/usc/16/590q.md?p=a) of Oregon if permission therefor has been obtained from the [State](/usc/16/590q.md?p=a) of Oregon before March 23, 1972.
- (c) **Easements and rights for the disposal of wastes—** The [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) is further authorized, subject to applicable water quality standards now or hereafter established, to grant such additional easements and rights, in terms up to perpetuity, as in his judgment would be appropriate and desirable for the effective use of the rights to water and the disposal of waste provided for herein and for other utility and private purposes if permission therefor has been obtained from the [State](/usc/16/590q.md?p=a) of Oregon, subject to such reasonable terms and conditions as he deems necessary for the protection of the scenic, scientific, historic, and recreational features of the recreation [area](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A).

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 92–260, § 11, Mar. 23, 1972, 86 Stat. 101.)