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[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.
