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[CITE: 22USC277d-30]

 
               TITLE 22--FOREIGN RELATIONS AND INTERCOURSE
 
           CHAPTER 7--INTERNATIONAL BUREAUS, CONGRESSES, ETC.
 
       SUBCHAPTER IV--INTERNATIONAL BOUNDARY AND WATER COMMISSION
 
Sec. 277d-30. Lower Rio Grande drainage conveyance canal 
        projects; agreements with Mexico for construction, operation, 
        and maintenance; division of costs; non-Federal assurances of 
        one-half of Federal costs
        
    The Secretary of State, acting through the United States 
Commissioner, International Boundary and Water Commission, United States 
and Mexico, is authorized, notwithstanding any other provision of law 
and subject to the conditions provided in this section and section 277d-
31 of this title to conclude an agreement or agreements with the 
appropriate official or officials of the Government of the United 
Mexican States for the construction, operation, and maintenance by the 
United Mexican States under the supervision of the International 
Boundary and Water Commission, United States and Mexico, of a drainage 
conveyance canal through Mexican territory for the discharge of waters 
of El Morillo and other drains in the United Mexican States into the 
Gulf of Mexico in the manner, and having substantially the 
characteristics, described in said Commission's minute numbered 223, 
dated November 30, 1965. The agreement or agreements shall provide that 
the cost of construction including costs of design and right-of-way and 
the costs of operation and maintenance, shall be equally divided between 
the United Mexican States and the United States. Before concluding the 
agreement or agreements, the Secretary of State shall receive 
satisfactory assurances from private citizens or a responsible local 
group that they or it will pay to the United States Treasury one-half of 
the actual United States costs of such construction, including costs of 
design and right-of-way, and one-half of the actual costs of operation 
and maintenance allocated under such agreement or agreements to the 
United States. Payments to the United States Treasury under this section 
shall be covered into the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts.

(Pub. L. 89-584, Sec. 1, Sept. 19, 1966, 80 Stat. 808.)

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 277d-31 of this title.
