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[CITE: 22USC277d-17]

 
               TITLE 22--FOREIGN RELATIONS AND INTERCOURSE
 
           CHAPTER 7--INTERNATIONAL BUREAUS, CONGRESSES, ETC.
 
       SUBCHAPTER IV--INTERNATIONAL BOUNDARY AND WATER COMMISSION
 
Sec. 277d-17. Chamizal boundary settlement; investigations 
        relating to river channel; acquisition of lands; relocation of 
        facilities
        
    In connection with the convention between the United States of 
America and the United Mexican States for the solution of the problem of 
the Chamizal, signed August 29, 1963, the Secretary of State, acting 
through the United States Commissioner, International Boundary and Water 
Commission, United States and Mexico, is authorized--
        a. to conduct technical and other investigations relating to: 
    the demarcation or monumentation of the boundary between the United 
    States and Mexico; flood control; water resources; sanitation and 
    prevention of pollution; channel relocation, improvement, and 
    stabilization; and other matters related to the new river channel.
        b. to acquire by donation, purchase, or condemnation, all lands 
    required--
            (1) for transfer to Mexico as provided in said convention;
            (2) for construction of that portion of the new river 
        channel and the adjoining levee in the territory of the United 
        States;
            (3) for relocation of highways, roadways, railroads, 
        telegraph, telephone, electric transmission lines, bridges, 
        related facilities, and any publicly owned structure or 
        facility, the relocation of which, in the judgment of the said 
        Commissioner, is necessitated by the project.

        c. For the purpose of effecting said relocations--
            (1) to perform any or all work involved in said relocations;
            (2) to enter into contracts with the owners of properties to 
        be relocated whereby they undertake to acquire any or all 
        properties needed for said relocations, or undertake to perform 
        any or all work involved in said relocations;
            (3) to convey or exchange properties acquired or improved by 
        the United States under sections 277d-17 to 277d-25 of this 
        title or under said convention, with or without improvements, or 
        to grant term or perpetual easements therein or thereover.

(Pub. L. 88-300, Sec. 1, Apr. 29, 1964, 78 Stat. 184.)

                          Codification

    Section is comprised of part of section 1 of Pub. L. 88-300. 
Remainder of section 1 is set out as a Short Title note below.


                               Short Title

    Section 1 of Pub. L. 88-300 provided in part: ``That this Act 
[enacting this section and sections 277d-18 to 277d-25 of this title] 
may be cited as the `American-Mexican Chamizal Convention Act of 
1964'.''

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 277d-18, 277d-22, 277d-24, 
277d-25 of this title.
