---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 460q–7"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "460q–7"
heading: "Shasta and Trinity National Forests; additions of lands"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/460q-7"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores"
  - "Subchapter LXXV — Whiskeytown-Shasta-Trinity National Recreation Area"
---

# §460q–7. Shasta and Trinity National Forests; additions of lands


The exterior boundaries of the Shasta National Forest in the [State](/usc/16/590q.md?p=a) of California are hereby extended to include the lands described in the Act of March 19, 1948 (62 Stat. 83), and sections [22](/usc/16/22.md) and 27, township 35 north, range 1 west, Mount Diablo base and meridian. The exterior boundaries of the Trinity National Forest in the [State](/usc/16/590q.md?p=a) of California are hereby extended to include all of sections [4](/usc/16/4.md), [5](/usc/16/5.md), and [8](/usc/16/8.md), the east half and the northwest quarter of [section 6](/usc/16/6.md), the east half of [section 7](/usc/16/7.md), the northwest quarter of [section 17](/usc/16/17.md), and the northeast quarter of [section 18](/usc/16/18.md), township 33 north, range 8 west, Mount Diablo base and meridian. Subject to any valid claim or entry now existing and hereafter legally maintained, all [public lands](/usc/16/620e.md?p=7) of the United States and all lands of the United States heretofore or hereafter acquired or reserved for use in connection with the Shasta, Clair Engle, or Lewiston Reservoirs of the Central Valley [project](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-4) within the exterior boundaries of the Shasta and Trinity National Forests which have not heretofore been added to and made a part of such forests, and all lands of the United States acquired for the purposes of the recreation [area](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A) in the Shasta or Clair Engle-Lewiston [units](/usc/16/430f–7.md?p=4) are hereby added to and made a part of the respective national forests within which they are situated: Provided, That lands within the flow lines of any reservoir operated and maintained by the Department of the Interior or otherwise needed or used for the operation of the Central Valley [project](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-4) shall continue to be administered by the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) of the Interior to the extent he determines to be required for such operation.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 89–336, § 8, Nov. 8, 1965, 79 Stat. 1299.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

Act of March 19, 1948 (62 Stat. 83), referred to in text, is act Mar. 19, 1948, ch. 139, 62 Stat. 83. See paragraph entitled “Shasta National Forest” set out in the Codification note under sections 486a to 486w of this title.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Change of Name

Clair Engle Reservoir, referred to in text, redesignated “Trinity Lake” by section 1 of Pub. L. 105–44, set out as a note under section 460q of this title.