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[CITE: 22USC277d-3]

 
               TITLE 22--FOREIGN RELATIONS AND INTERCOURSE
 
           CHAPTER 7--INTERNATIONAL BUREAUS, CONGRESSES, ETC.
 
       SUBCHAPTER IV--INTERNATIONAL BOUNDARY AND WATER COMMISSION
 
Sec. 277d-3. Authorization for appropriations; activities for 
        which available; contracts for excess amounts
        
    There are authorized to be appropriated to the Department of State 
for the use of the Commission, out of any money in the Treasury not 
otherwise appropriated, such sums as may be necessary to carry out the 
provisions of the Treaty of February 3, 1944, and other treaties and 
conventions between the United States of America and the United Mexican 
States, under which the United States Section operates, and to discharge 
the statutory functions and duties of the United States Section. Such 
sums shall be available for construction, operation and maintenance of 
stream gaging stations, and their equipment and sites therefor; personal 
services and rent in the District of Columbia and elsewhere; services, 
including those of attorneys and appraisers, in accordance with the 
provisions of section 3109 of title 5, at rates for individuals not in 
excess of the maximum daily rate for grade GS-15 of the General Schedule 
and the United States Commissioner is authorized, notwithstanding the 
provisions of any other Act, to employ as consultants by contract or 
otherwise without regard to chapter 51 and subchapter III of chapter 53 
of title 5, and the civil-service laws and regulations, retired 
personnel of the Armed Forces of the United States, who shall not be 
required to revert to an active status; travel expense, including, in 
the discretion of the Commissioner, expenses of attendance at meetings 
of organizations concerned with the activities of the Commission which 
may be necessary for the efficient discharge of the responsibilities of 
the Commission; hire, with or without personal services, of work 
animals, and animal-drawn, and motor-propelled (including passenger) 
vehicles and aircraft and equipment; acquisition by donation, purchase, 
or condemnation, of real and personal property, including expenses of 
abstracts, certificates of title, and recording fees; purchase of ice 
and drinking water; inspection of equipment, supplies and materials by 
contract or otherwise; drilling and testing of foundations and dam 
sites, by contract if deemed necessary; payment for official telephone 
service in the field in case of official telephones installed in private 
houses when authorized under regulations established by the 
Commissioner; purchase of firearms and ammunition for guard purposes; 
official entertainment and other representation expenses within the 
United States for the United States section; and such other objects and 
purposes as may be permitted by laws applicable, in whole or in part, to 
the United States Section: Provided, That, when appropriations have been 
made for the commencement or continuation of construction or operation 
and maintenance of any such project, the United States Commissioner, 
notwithstanding the provisions of sections 1341, 1342, and 1349 to 1351 
and subchapter II of chapter 15 of title 31, and sections 11 and 12 of 
title 41, or any other law, may enter into contracts beyond the amount 
actually appropriated for so much of the work on any such authorized 
project as the physical and orderly sequence of construction makes 
necessary, such contracts to be subject to and dependent upon future 
appropriations by Congress: Provided further, That the United States 
Commissioner shall prepare, within 30 days after the end of each fiscal 
year, a report of all expenditures during that year for official 
entertainment and other representation expenses, which shall be 
available for public inspection.

(Sept. 13, 1950, ch. 948, title I, Sec. 103, 64 Stat. 847; Pub. L. 88-
448, title IV, Sec. 402(a)(29), Aug. 19, 1964, 78 Stat. 494; Pub. L. 95-
105, title V, Sec. 514(c), Aug. 17, 1977, 91 Stat. 862; Pub. L. 102-138, 
title I, Sec. 165, Oct. 28, 1991, 105 Stat. 676.)

                       References in Text

    Grade GS-15, referred to in text, is contained in the General 
Schedule which is set out under section 5332 of Title 5, Government 
Organization and Employees.
    The civil service laws, referred to in text, are set out in Title 5. 
See, particularly, section 3301 et seq. of Title 5.

                          Codification

    ``Section 3109 of title 5'' and ``chapter 51 and subchapter III of 
chapter 53 of title 5'' substituted in text for ``section 15 of the Act 
of August 2, 1946 (5 U.S.C. sec. 55a)'' and ``the Classification Act of 
1949, as amended'', respectively, on authority of Pub. L. 89-554, 
Sec. 7(b), Sept. 6, 1966, 80 Stat. 631, the first section of which 
enacted Title 5, Government Organization and Employees.
    ``Sections 1341, 1342, and 1349 to 1351 and subchapter II of chapter 
15 of title 31'' substituted in text for reference to section 3679 of 
the Revised Statutes [31 U.S.C. 665] on authority of Pub. L. 97-258, 
Sec. 4(b), Sept. 13, 1982, 96 Stat. 1067, the first section of which 
enacted Title 31, Money and Finance.


                               Amendments

    1991--Pub. L. 102-138 inserted ``official entertainment and other 
representation expenses within the United States for the United States 
section;'' after ``guard purposes;'' and concluding provision that the 
United States Commissioner prepare, within 30 days after the end of each 
fiscal year, a report of all expenditures during that year for official 
entertainment and other representation expenses, with such report to be 
available for public inspection.
    1977--Pub. L. 95-105 substituted ``the maximum daily rate for grade 
GS-15 of the General Schedule'' for ``$100 per diem''.
    1964--Pub. L. 88-448 struck out provisions which permitted retired 
personnel of the Armed Forces of the United States employed by the 
Commission to receive as compensation for temporary service, the 
difference between the rates of pay established therefor and their 
retired pay during the period or periods of their temporary employment.


                    Effective Date of 1977 Amendment

    Section 514(d) of Pub. L. 95-105 provided that: ``The amendments 
made by this section [amending this section and sections 277d-28 and 
277d-31 of this title] shall take effect on October 1, 1977.''

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 277d-5, 277d-25 of this 
title.
