---
kind: "section"
citation: "49 U.S.C. § 60128"
title: "49"
title_heading: "Transportation"
number: "60128"
heading: "Dumping within pipeline rights-of-way"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/49/60128"
units:
  - "Subtitle VIII — Pipelines"
  - "Chapter 601 — Safety"
---

# §60128. Dumping within pipeline rights-of-way

- (a) **Prohibition.—** No person shall excavate for the purpose of unauthorized disposal within the right-of-way of an [interstate gas pipeline facility](/usc/49/60101.md?p=a-6) or [interstate hazardous liquid pipeline facility](/usc/49/60101.md?p=a-7), or any other limited area in the vicinity of any such interstate [pipeline facility](/usc/49/60101.md?p=a-18) established by the [Secretary](/usc/49/60101.md?p=a-25) of Transportation, and dispose solid waste therein.
- (b) **Definition.—** For purposes of this section, the term “solid waste” has the meaning given that term in section 1004(27) of the Solid Waste Disposal Act ([42 U.S.C. 6903(27)](/usc/42/6903.md?p=27)).

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 104–304, § 18(a), Oct. 12, 1996, 110 Stat. 3804.)