16 U.S.C. § 460u–10: Rights-of-way and…

Summary

Protects any rights-of-way or easements that existed on March 1, 1975 and that are needed for high-voltage power lines, pipelines, water mains, or railroad operations and maintenance. Also protects Northern Indiana Public Service Company’s property rights that existed on October 1, 1986 for two specific areas on the park map. One is land the company owns outright used for high-voltage lines, pipelines, and other utility work from the Dune Acres substation east to the Michigan City Generating Station, shown as area II–I on National Park Service Boundary Map No. 626–80,033–B (dated October 1986), but excluding about 6.0 acres next to Mineral Springs Road. The second is land the company owns outright used for the same utility purposes shown as area II–H on that same map.

Title 16, §460u–10

Conservation, Source: USLM XML via OLRC

Nothing in this subchapter shall diminish any existing (as of March 1, 1975) rights-of-way or easements which are necessary for high voltage electrical transmission, pipelines, water mains, or line haul railroad operations and maintenance. Nothing in this subchapter shall be construed to diminish the existing property rights of Northern Indiana Public Service Company (as of October 1, 1986) with respect to—

(1)a parcel of land owned in fee by the Northern Indiana Public Service Company and used for high voltage electrical transmission lines, pipelines, and utility purposes, beginning at said Company’s Dune Acres substation and extending east to said Company’s Michigan City Generating Station, which parcel by this subchapter is included within the boundaries of the Indiana Dunes National Park and herein designated as area II–I on National Park Service Boundary Map No. 626–80,033–B, dated October 1986, excluding that certain parcel of approximately 6.0 acres adjacent Mineral Springs Road in areas II–I, and

(2)land owned in fee by the Northern Indiana Public Service Company and used for high voltage electrical transmission lines, pipelines, and utility purposes as has by this subchapter been included within the boundaries of the Indiana Dunes National Park and herein designated as area II–H on said National Park Service Boundary Map No. 626–80,033–B.

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Prior Provisions

A prior section 10 of Pub. L. 89–761 was renumbered section 9 and is classified to section 460u–9 of this title.

Amendments

2019—Pars. (1), (2). Pub. L. 116–6 substituted “National Park” for “National Lakeshore”. 1986—Pub. L. 99–583 inserted provisions relating to the existing property rights of the Northern Indiana Public Service Company on Oct. 1, 1986.

§460u–10 Rights-of-way and Easements; Existing Property Rights of Northern Indiana Public Service Company