---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 482g"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "482g"
heading: "Perfection of claims within forest"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/482g"
units:
  - "Chapter 2 — National Forests"
  - "Subchapter I — Establishment and Administration"
---

# §482g. Perfection of claims within forest


Valid mining claims within the watershed of the headwaters of the Bonito River in the Lincoln National Forest, within the [State](/usc/16/590q.md?p=a) of New Mexico, as above described, existing on June 13, 1939, and thereafter maintained in compliance with the law under which they were initiated and the laws of the [State](/usc/16/590q.md?p=a) of New Mexico, may be perfected under sections [482e](/usc/16/482e.md) and [482f](/usc/16/482f.md) of this title, or under the laws under which they were initiated, as the claimant may desire.


## Source credit

(June 13, 1939, ch. 201, § 3, 53 Stat. 818.)