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[CITE: 22USC277d-29]

 
               TITLE 22--FOREIGN RELATIONS AND INTERCOURSE
 
           CHAPTER 7--INTERNATIONAL BUREAUS, CONGRESSES, ETC.
 
       SUBCHAPTER IV--INTERNATIONAL BOUNDARY AND WATER COMMISSION
 
Sec. 277d-29. Rio Grande canalization project; flood and 
        sediment control; agreements authorized; control gates; costs; 
        authorization of appropriations
        
    For the purposes of facilitating and implementing operation and 
maintenance of the international Rio Grande canalization project, the 
United States Commissioner, International Boundary and Water Commission, 
United States and Mexico, is authorized to enter into agreements with 
the appropriate official or officials of local organizations, as defined 
in the Watershed Protection and Flood Prevention Act of August 4, 1954, 
as amended [16 U.S.C. 1001 et seq.], for the maintenance by said local 
organizations either directly or indirectly through mutually 
satisfactory maintenance agreements with others, including the United 
States, of all those flood and arroyo sediment control dams, together 
with all related works, hereafter installed or constructed in the Rio 
Grande watershed between Caballo Dam and El Paso, Texas, in accordance 
with said Act, and which are necessary, in the opinion of Said 
Commissioner, to facilitate and implement the operation and maintenance 
of said project.
    Such maintenance agreements between the local organization and the 
United States shall provide the extent of contribution by the United 
States as may be mutually agreed by the two parties, based on the degree 
of benefits to be derived from said dams and related works, and the 
contribution by the United States may be either in the form of funds or 
performance of the actual operation and maintenance.
    Control gates shall not be installed on any of the dams which, in 
the opinion of the United States Commissioner, International Boundary 
and Water Commission, United States and Mexico, are necessary to 
facilitate and implement the operation and maintenance of the Rio Grande 
canalization project.
    Arrangements made between the United States and the local 
organizations shall be satisfactory to the Secretary of Agriculture for 
defraying cost of maintaining such work of improvement in accordance 
with regulations prescribed by said Secretary.
    There is hereby authorized to be appropriated not in excess of 
$50,000 per annum for contributions to maintenance authorized by this 
section.

(Pub. L. 88-600, Sept. 18, 1964, 78 Stat. 956; Pub. L. 93-126, 
Sec. 7(c), Oct. 18, 1973, 87 Stat. 452.)

                       References in Text

    The Watershed Protection and Flood Prevention Act of August 4, 1954, 
as amended, referred to in text, is act Aug. 4, 1954, ch. 656, 68 Stat. 
666, as amended, which is classified generally to chapter 18 (Sec. 1001 
et seq.) of Title 16, Conservation. For complete classification of this 
Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 1001 of 
Title 16 and Tables.


                               Amendments

    1973--Pub. L. 93-126 substituted ``$50,000'' for ``$23,000''.
