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[CITE: 22USC277d-12]

 
               TITLE 22--FOREIGN RELATIONS AND INTERCOURSE
 
           CHAPTER 7--INTERNATIONAL BUREAUS, CONGRESSES, ETC.
 
       SUBCHAPTER IV--INTERNATIONAL BOUNDARY AND WATER COMMISSION
 
Sec. 277d-12. Expenditures for flood fighting, rescue 
        operations, repairs or restoration of flood control or 
        sanitation works threatened or destroyed by floodwaters of Rio 
        Grande, Colorado, or Tijuana Rivers
        
    On and after June 20, 1956, in addition to the funds available under 
the appropriation ``Rio Grande emergency flood protection'', the United 
States Commissioner is authorized to expend from any appropriation 
available to the International Boundary and Water Commission, United 
States and Mexico, American Section, such sums as may be necessary for 
prosecution of emergency flood fighting and rescue operations, repairs 
or restoration of any flood control or sanitation works threatened or 
destroyed by floodwaters of the Rio Grande, the Colorado or Tijuana 
Rivers, or other streams running across or near the boundary, and for 
taking emergency actions, consistent with the emergency provisions of 
the Safe Drinking Water Act [42 U.S.C. 300f et seq.], to protect against 
health threatening surface and ground water pollution problems along the 
United States-Mexico boundary.

(June 20, 1956, ch. 414, title I, 70 Stat. 302; Pub. L. 101-246, title 
IV, Sec. 412(a), Feb. 16, 1990, 104 Stat. 69; Pub. L. 103-236, title IV, 
Sec. 423(b), Apr. 30, 1994, 108 Stat. 457.)

                       References in Text

    The Safe Drinking Water Act, referred to in text, is title XIV of 
act July 1, 1944, as added Dec. 16, 1974, Pub. L. 93-523, Sec. 2(a), 88 
Stat. 1660, as amended, which is classified generally to subchapter XII 
(Sec. 300f et seq.) of chapter 6A of Title 42, The Public Health and 
Welfare. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short 
Title note set out under section 201 of Title 42 and Tables.


                               Amendments

    1994--Pub. L. 103-236 substituted ``Tijuana Rivers, or other streams 
running across or near the boundary, and for taking emergency actions, 
consistent with the emergency provisions of the Safe Drinking Water Act, 
to protect against health threatening surface and ground water pollution 
problems along the United States-Mexico boundary'' for ``Tijuana Rivers, 
and for taking emergency actions to protect against health threatening 
sanitation problems by repairing or replacing existing capital 
infrastructure along the United States-Mexico Boundary''.
    1990--Pub. L. 101-246 inserted ``or sanitation'' after ``flood 
control'' and inserted before period at end ``, the Colorado or Tijuana 
Rivers, and for taking emergency actions to protect against health 
threatening sanitation problems by repairing or replacing existing 
capital infrastructure along the United States-Mexico Boundary''.
