§ 267b. — International Joint Commission; invitation to establish; personnel; duties.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 22USC267b]
TITLE 22--FOREIGN RELATIONS AND INTERCOURSE
CHAPTER 7--INTERNATIONAL BUREAUS, CONGRESSES, ETC.
Sec. 267b. International Joint Commission; invitation to
establish; personnel; duties
The President of the United States is requested to invite the
Government of Great Britain to join in the formation of an international
commission, to be composed of three members from the United States and
three who shall represent the interests of the Dominion of Canada, whose
duty it shall be to investigate and report upon the conditions and uses
of the waters adjacent to the boundary lines between the United States
and Canada, including all of the waters of the lakes and rivers whose
natural outlet is by the River Saint Lawrence to the Atlantic Ocean;
also upon the maintenance and regulation of suitable levels; and also
upon the effect upon the shores of these waters and the structures
thereon, and upon the interests of navigation, by reason of the
diversion of these waters from or change in their natural flow; and,
further, to report upon the necessary measures to regulate such
diversion, and to make such recommendations for improvements and
regulations as shall best subserve the interests of navigation in said
waters. The said commissioners shall report upon the advisability of
locating a dam at the outlet of Lake Erie, with a view to determining
whether such dam will benefit navigation, and if such structure is
deemed advisable, shall make recommendations to their respective
Governments looking to an agreement or treaty which shall provide for
the construction of the same, and they shall make an estimate of the
probable cost thereof. The President, in selecting the three members of
said Commission who shall represent the United States, is authorized to
appoint one officer of the Corps of Engineers of the United States Army,
one civil engineer well versed in the hydraulics of the Great Lakes, and
one lawyer of experience in questions of international and riparian law,
and said Commission shall be authorized to employ such persons as it may
deem needful in the performance of the duties hereby imposed.
(June 13, 1902, ch. 1079, Sec. 4, 32 Stat. 373.)
Codification
Provisions of this section relating to the payment of salaries and
expenses of the International Joint Commission were omitted. For
provisions relating to the payment of salaries of the United States
members of the International Joint Commission, see section 268 of this
title.
Establishment of Commission
The International Joint Commission was organized in 1911 pursuant to
article VII of the treaty of January 11, 1909, with Great Britain, 36
Stat. 2448.
Water Resources Planning
Jurisdiction, powers, or prerogatives of the International Joint
Commission, United States and Canada, unaffected by Water Resources
Planning Act, see section 1962-1 of Title 42, The Public Health and
Welfare.
Passamaquoddy Tidal Power Project
Joint Res. Jan. 31, 1956, ch. 27, 70 Stat. 9, provided for the
Secretary of State to request the International Joint Commission created
by the treaty between the United States and Great Britain relating to
boundary waters between the United States and Canada to arrange for a
final survey to be made to determine the cost of construction and
economic feasibility of the proposed Passamaquoddy tidal power project
at Passamaquoddy Bay, authorized United States agencies to assist the
Commission, authorized appropriations, and required the Secretary of
State to report the results of the survey to Congress.
