---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 460q–5"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "460q–5"
heading: "Mineral development; payment of receipts into certain funds or accounts in Treasury; disposition of receipts"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/460q-5"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores"
  - "Subchapter LXXV — Whiskeytown-Shasta-Trinity National Recreation Area"
---

# §460q–5. Mineral development; payment of receipts into certain funds or accounts in Treasury; disposition of receipts


The lands within the recreation [area](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A), subject to valid existing rights, are hereby withdrawn from location, entry, and patent under the United States mining laws. The [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) of the Interior, under such regulations as he deems appropriate, may permit the removal of the nonleasable minerals from lands or interests in lands under his jurisdiction within the recreation [area](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A) in the manner prescribed by [section 387 of title 43](/usc/43/387.md), and from those under the jurisdiction of the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) of Agriculture within the recreation [area](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A) in accordance with the provisions of [section 192c of title 30](/usc/30/192c.md), and he may permit the removal of leasable minerals from lands or interests in lands within the recreation [area](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A) in accordance with the Mineral Leasing Act of February 25, 1920, as amended [[30 U.S.C. 181](/usc/30/181.md) et seq.], or the Acquired Lands Mineral Leasing Act of August 7, 1947 [[30 U.S.C. 351](/usc/30/351.md) et seq.], if he finds that such disposition would not have significant adverse effects on the purposes of the Central Valley [project](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-4) or the administration of the recreation [area](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A): Provided, That any lease or permit respecting such minerals in lands administered by the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) of Agriculture shall be issued only with his consent and subject to such conditions as he may prescribe.

All receipts derived from permits and leases issued under the authority of this section on lands administered by the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) of Agriculture shall be paid into the same funds or accounts in the Treasury of the United States and shall be distributed in the same manner as provided for other receipts from the lands affected by the lease or permit, except that any receipts derived from permits or leases issued on those or other lands in the recreation [area](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A) under the Mineral Leasing Act of February 25, 1920, as amended, or the Act of August 7, 1947, shall be disposed of as provided in the applicable Act; and receipts from the disposition of nonleasable minerals from [public lands](/usc/16/620e.md?p=7) under the jurisdiction of the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) of the Interior shall be disposed of in the same manner as moneys received from the sale of [public lands](/usc/16/620e.md?p=7).


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 89–336, § 6, Nov. 8, 1965, 79 Stat. 1298.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

The Acquired Lands Mineral Leasing Act of August 7, 1947, referred to in text, is act Aug. 7, 1947, ch. 513, 61 Stat. 913, which is classified generally to chapter 7 (§ 351 et seq.) of Title 30. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 351 of Title 30 and Tables.