---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 92a"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "92a"
heading: "Rights-of-way for railways, tramways, and cable lines"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/92a"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores"
  - "Subchapter XI — Mount Rainier National Park"
---

# §92a. Rights-of-way for railways, tramways, and cable lines


The provisions of [section 92 of this title](/usc/16/92.md), granting rights-of-way, under such restrictions and regulations as the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) of the Interior may establish, to any railway or tramway company or companies for the purpose of building, constructing, and operating a railway, constructing and operating a railway or tramway line or lines, so far as the same relate to lands within the Mount Rainier National [Park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3), Washington, are repealed: Provided, however, That nothing herein shall be construed so as to prohibit the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) of the Interior from authorizing the use of land in said [park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3) under contract, permit, lease, or otherwise for the establishment and operation thereon of a tramway or cable line, or lines, for the accommodation or convenience of visitors and others.


## Source credit

(Jan. 26, 1931, ch. 47, § 6, 46 Stat. 1044.)