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

# §460q. Establishment; boundaries; administration; integrated management policies


In order to provide, in a manner coordinated with the other purposes of the Central Valley [project](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-4), for the public outdoor recreation use and enjoyment of the Whiskeytown, Shasta, Clair Engle, and Lewiston reservoirs and surrounding lands in the [State](/usc/16/590q.md?p=a) of California by present and future generations and the conservation of scenic, scientific, historic, and other values contributing to public enjoyment of such lands and waters, there is hereby established, subject to valid existing rights, the Whiskeytown-Shasta-Trinity National Recreation [Area](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A) in the [State](/usc/16/590q.md?p=a) of California (hereinafter referred to as the “recreation [area](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A)”). The boundaries of the recreation [area](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A), which consists of the Whiskeytown [unit](/usc/16/430f–7.md?p=4), the Shasta [unit](/usc/16/430f–7.md?p=4), and the Clair Engle-Lewiston [unit](/usc/16/430f–7.md?p=4), shall be those shown in drawing numbered BOR–WST 1004, dated July 1963, entitled “Proposed Whiskeytown-Shasta-Trinity National Recreation [Area](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A)”, which is on file and available for public inspection in the office of the Director of the Bureau of Outdoor Recreation, Department of the Interior. The Whiskeytown [unit](/usc/16/430f–7.md?p=4) shall be administered by the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) of the Interior; and the Shasta and Clair Engle-Lewiston [units](/usc/16/430f–7.md?p=4) shall be administered by the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) of Agriculture, except that lands or waters 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. The two [Secretaries](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) shall coordinate their planning and administration of the respective [units](/usc/16/430f–7.md?p=4) in such manner as to provide integrated management policies for the recreation [area](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A) as a whole for the purposes of this subchapter in order to bring about uniformity to the fullest extent feasible in the administration and use of the recreation [area](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A).


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 89–336, § 1, Nov. 8, 1965, 79 Stat. 1295.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Change of Name

Pub. L. 105–44, § 1, Sept. 30, 1997, 111 Stat. 1141, provided that: Designation.—The reservoir created by Trinity Dam in the Central Valley project, California, and designated as ‘Clair Engle Lake’ by Public Law 88–662 (78 Stat. 1093) is hereby redesignated as ‘Trinity Lake’. References.—Any reference in any law, regulation, document, record, map, or other paper of the United States to the reservoir referred to in subsection (a) shall be considered to be a reference to ‘Trinity Lake’. Repeal of Earlier Designation.—Public Law 88–662 (78 Stat. 1093) is repealed.”