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[CITE: 22USC277d-18]

 
               TITLE 22--FOREIGN RELATIONS AND INTERCOURSE
 
           CHAPTER 7--INTERNATIONAL BUREAUS, CONGRESSES, ETC.
 
       SUBCHAPTER IV--INTERNATIONAL BOUNDARY AND WATER COMMISSION
 
Sec. 277d-18. Construction, operation, and maintenance of works; 
        Bridge of the Americas
        

(a) In general

    The United States Commissioner is authorized to construct, operate, 
and maintain all works provided for in said convention and sections 
277d-17 to 277d-25 of this title, and to turn over the operation and 
maintenance of any such 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 Commissioner may deem 
appropriate.

(b) Bridge of the Americas

    The United States Commissioner is authorized to receive payments of 
money from public or private sources in the United States or Mexico made 
for the purpose of sharing in the cost of operations, maintenance, and 
replacement of the Bridge of the Americas which crosses the Rio Grande 
between El Paso, Texas, and Cd. Juarez, Chihuahua. Notwithstanding any 
other provision of law, such payments of money shall be credited to any 
appropriation to the Commission which is currently available. Funds 
received under this subsection shall be available only for the 
replacement of such bridge.

(c) Advance appropriations

    The authority of subsection (b) of this section may be exercised 
only to the extent or in such amounts as are provided in advance in 
appropriation Acts.

(Pub. L. 88-300, Sec. 2, Apr. 29, 1964, 78 Stat. 184; Pub. L. 103-236, 
title IV, Sec. 423(a), Apr. 30, 1994, 108 Stat. 457; Pub. L. 106-113, 
div. B, Sec. 1000(a)(7) [div. A, title VII, Sec. 703], Nov. 29, 1999, 
113 Stat. 1536, 1501A-460.)


                               Amendments

    1999--Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 106-113 inserted ``operations, 
maintenance, and'' after ``cost of''.
    1994--Pub. L. 103-236 designated existing provisions as subsec. (a) 
and added subsecs. (b) and (c).

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 277d-17, 277d-22, 277d-24, 
277d-25 of this title.
