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[CITE: 22USC277d-15]

 
               TITLE 22--FOREIGN RELATIONS AND INTERCOURSE
 
           CHAPTER 7--INTERNATIONAL BUREAUS, CONGRESSES, ETC.
 
       SUBCHAPTER IV--INTERNATIONAL BOUNDARY AND WATER COMMISSION
 
Sec. 277d-15. Integration of operation of dam with other United 
        States water conservation activities
        
    If a dam is constructed pursuant to an agreement concluded under the 
authorization granted by section 277d-13 of this title, its operation 
for conservation and release of United States share of waters shall be 
integrated with other United States water conservation activities on the 
Rio Grande below Fort Quitman, Texas, in such manner as to provide the 
maximum feasible amount of water for beneficial use in the United States 
with the understandings that (a) releases of United States share of 
waters from said dam for domestic, municipal, industrial, and irrigation 
uses in the United States shall be made pursuant to order by the 
appropriate authority or authorities of the State of Texas, and (b) the 
State of Texas having stipulated that the amount of water that will be 
available for use in the United States below Falcon Dam after the 
proposed dam is placed in operation will be not less than the amount 
available under existing conditions of river development, and to carry 
out such understandings and said stipulation the conservation storage of 
said dam shall be used, and it shall be the exclusive responsibility of 
the appropriate authority or authorities of said State to distribute 
available United States share of waters of the Rio Grande in such manner 
as will comply with said stipulation.

(Pub. L. 86-605, Sec. 3, July 7, 1960, 74 Stat. 360.)

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 277d-16 of this title; title 
16 section 460fff-1.
