§ 277b. — Works or projects under treaty.
[Laws in effect as of January 7, 2003]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 7, 2003 and December 19, 2003]
[CITE: 22USC277b]
TITLE 22--FOREIGN RELATIONS AND INTERCOURSE
CHAPTER 7--INTERNATIONAL BUREAUS, CONGRESSES, ETC.
SUBCHAPTER IV--INTERNATIONAL BOUNDARY AND WATER COMMISSION
Sec. 277b. Works or projects under treaty
(a) Construction, operation, maintenance, and supervision; sewage
interceptor system
The President is further authorized (1) to construct any project or
works which may be provided for in a treaty entered into with Mexico and
to repair, protect, maintain, or complete works now existing or now
under construction or those that may be constructed under the treaty
provisions aforesaid; and to construct any project or works designed to
facilitate compliance with the provisions of treaties between the United
States and Mexico; (2) to operate and maintain any project or works so
constructed or, subject to such rules and regulations for continuing
supervision by the said American Commissioner or any Federal agency as
the President may cause to be promulgated, to turn over the operation
and maintenance of such project or works to any Federal agency, or any
State, county, municipality, district, or other political subdivision
within which such project or works may be in whole or in part situated,
upon such terms, conditions, and requirements as the President may deem
appropriate; and (3) to carry out preliminary surveys, operations, and
maintenance of the interceptor system constructed to intercept sewage
flows from Tijuana from selected canyon areas.
(b) Rio Grande bank protection project
Expenditures for the Rio Grande bank protection project shall be
subject to the provisions and conditions made with respect to that
project in the first undesignated paragraph under the heading
``International Obligations'' contained in the Act of April 25, 1945 (59
Stat. 89).
(c) Anzalduas diversion dam
The Anzalduas diversion dam shall not be operated for irrigation or
water supply purposes in the United States unless suitable arrangements
have been made with the prospective water users for repayment to the
Government of the United States for such portions of the dam as shall
have been allocated to such purposes by the Secretary of State.
(d) Improvements to Rio Grande Canalization Project
Pursuant to the authority of subsection (a) of this section and in
order to facilitate further compliance with the terms of the Convention
for Equitable Distribution of the Waters of the Rio Grande, May 21,
1906, United States-Mexico, the Secretary of State, acting through the
United States Commissioner of the International Boundary and Water
Commission, may make improvements to the Rio Grande Canalization
Project, originally authorized by the Act of August 29, 1935 (49 Stat.
961). Such improvements may include all such works as may be needed to
stabilize the Rio Grande in the reach between the Percha Diversion Dam
in New Mexico and the American Diversion Dam in El Paso.
(May 13, 1924, ch. 153, Sec. 3, as added Aug. 19, 1935, ch. 561, 49
Stat. 660; amended Pub. L. 101-246, title IV, Sec. 412(b)(1), Feb. 16,
1990, 104 Stat. 70; Pub. L. 104-319, title I, Sec. 104, Oct. 19, 1996,
110 Stat. 3866.)
References in Text
The first undesignated paragraph under the heading ``International
Obligations'' contained in the Act of April 25, 1945 (59 Stat. 89),
referred to in subsec. (b), is not classified to the Code.
Amendments
1996--Subsec. (d). Pub. L. 104-319 added subsec. (d).
1990--Pub. L. 101-246 designated existing provisions as subsec. (a),
redesignated cls. (a) and (b) as (1) and (2), respectively, added cl.
(3), and added subsecs. (b) and (c).
Section Referred to in Other Sections
This section is referred to in sections 277c, 277d of this title.
