Title 16 — ConservationRelease 119-73

§460q–3 Administration; land and water use management plans, preparation and revision; utilization of statutory authorities

Title 16 › Chapter CHAPTER 1— - NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER LXXV— - WHISKEYTOWN-SHASTA-TRINITY NATIONAL RECREATION AREA › § 460q–3

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

Each Secretary must manage the part of the recreation area they control so it fits with the rest of the Central Valley Project and the whole recreation area. They must focus on three things: offering outdoor recreation for the public, protecting scenic, scientific, historic, and other values people enjoy, and using renewable natural resources in ways that help or at least do not harm recreation and those values. Each Secretary must make and can update land and water use plans after consulting the other Secretary. The Secretary of Agriculture may use the powers he has for national forests to carry out these goals. The Secretary of the Interior may use the powers he has for national parks and other conservation authorities to do the same, as each Secretary thinks appropriate.

Full Legal Text

Title 16, §460q–3

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(a)Each Secretary is authorized and directed to administer the portion of the recreation area under his jurisdiction in a manner coordinated with the other purposes of the Central Valley project and with the purposes of the recreation area as a whole and in such manner as in his judgment will best provide for (1) public outdoor recreation benefits; (2) conservation of scenic, scientific, historic, and other values contributing to public enjoyment; and (3) such management, utilization, and disposal of renewable natural resources as in the judgment of the respective Secretary will promote or is compatible with, and does not significantly impair, public recreation and conservation of scenic, scientific, historic, or other values contributing to public enjoyment. Such administration shall be carried out under land and water use management plans which each Secretary shall prepare and may from time to time revise in consultation with the other.

(b)In the administration of the portion of the recreation area under his jurisdiction—

(1)the Secretary of Agriculture shall utilize statutory authorities relating to the national forests in such manner as he deems appropriate to carry out the purposes of this subchapter; and

(2)the Secretary of the Interior may utilize such statutory authorities relating to areas of the national park system and such statutory authority otherwise available to him for the conservation and development of natural resources as he deems appropriate to carry out the purposes of this subchapter.

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Citation

16 U.S.C. § 460q–3

Title 16 — Conservation

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73