§ 277d-34. — AmericanMexican Boundary Treaty, authorization for carrying out treaty provisions; investigations; land acquisition, purposes; damages, repair or compensation.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 22USC277d-34]
TITLE 22--FOREIGN RELATIONS AND INTERCOURSE
CHAPTER 7--INTERNATIONAL BUREAUS, CONGRESSES, ETC.
SUBCHAPTER IV--INTERNATIONAL BOUNDARY AND WATER COMMISSION
Sec. 277d-34. American-Mexican Boundary Treaty, authorization
for carrying out treaty provisions; investigations; land
acquisition, purposes; damages, repair or compensation
In connection with the treaty between the United States of America
and the United Mexican States to resolve pending boundary differences
and maintain the Rio Grande and the Colorado River as the international
boundary between the United States of America and the United Mexican
States, signed November 23, 1970, (hereafter in this Act referred to as
the ``treaty''), the Secretary of State, acting through the United
States Commissioner, International Boundary and Water Commission, United
States, and Mexico (hereafter in this Act referred to as the
``Commissioner''), is authorized--
(1) to conduct technical and other investigations relating to--
(A) the demarcation, mapping, monumentation, channel
relocation, rectification, improvement, stabilization, and other
matters relating to the preservation of the river boundaries
between the United States and Mexico;
(B) the establishment and delimitation of the maritime
boundaries in the Gulf of Mexico and in the Pacific Ocean;
(C) water resources; and
(D) the sanitation and the prevention of pollution;
(2) to acquire by donation, purchase, or condemnation, all lands
or interests in lands required--
(A) for transfer to Mexico as provided in the treaty;
(B) for construction of that portion of new river channels
and the adjoining levees in the territory of the United States;
(C) to preserve the Rio Grande and the Colorado River as the
boundary by preventing the construction of works which may cause
deflection or obstruction of the normal flow of the rivers or of
their floodflows; and
(D) for relocation of any structure or facility, public or
private, the relocation of which, in the judgment of the
Commissioner, is necessitated by the project; and
(3) to remove, modify, or repair the damages caused to Mexico by
works constructed in the United States which the International
Boundary and Water Commission, United States and Mexico, as
determined have an adverse effect on Mexico, or to compensate Mexico
for such damages.
(Pub. L. 92-549, title I, Sec. 101, Oct. 25, 1972, 86 Stat. 1161.)
References in Text
This Act, referred to in text, means Pub. L. 92-549, Oct. 25, 1972,
86 Stat. 1161, which enacted sections 277d-34 to 277d-42 of this title
and amended section 1322 of Title 19, Customs Duties. For complete
classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out
below and Tables.
Short Title
Section 1 of Pub. L. 92-549 provided: ``That this Act [enacting this
section and sections 277d-35 to 277d-42 of this title and amending
section 1322 of Title 19, Customs Duties] may be cited as the `American-
Mexican Boundary Treaty Act of 1972'.''
