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[CITE: 22USC277d-34]

 
               TITLE 22--FOREIGN RELATIONS AND INTERCOURSE
 
           CHAPTER 7--INTERNATIONAL BUREAUS, CONGRESSES, ETC.
 
       SUBCHAPTER IV--INTERNATIONAL BOUNDARY AND WATER COMMISSION
 
Sec. 277d-34. American-Mexican Boundary Treaty, authorization 
        for carrying out treaty provisions; investigations; land 
        acquisition, purposes; damages, repair or compensation
        
    In connection with the treaty between the United States of America 
and the United Mexican States to resolve pending boundary differences 
and maintain the Rio Grande and the Colorado River as the international 
boundary between the United States of America and the United Mexican 
States, signed November 23, 1970, (hereafter in this Act referred to as 
the ``treaty''), the Secretary of State, acting through the United 
States Commissioner, International Boundary and Water Commission, United 
States, and Mexico (hereafter in this Act referred to as the 
``Commissioner''), is authorized--
        (1) to conduct technical and other investigations relating to--
            (A) the demarcation, mapping, monumentation, channel 
        relocation, rectification, improvement, stabilization, and other 
        matters relating to the preservation of the river boundaries 
        between the United States and Mexico;
            (B) the establishment and delimitation of the maritime 
        boundaries in the Gulf of Mexico and in the Pacific Ocean;
            (C) water resources; and
            (D) the sanitation and the prevention of pollution;

        (2) to acquire by donation, purchase, or condemnation, all lands 
    or interests in lands required--
            (A) for transfer to Mexico as provided in the treaty;
            (B) for construction of that portion of new river channels 
        and the adjoining levees in the territory of the United States;
            (C) to preserve the Rio Grande and the Colorado River as the 
        boundary by preventing the construction of works which may cause 
        deflection or obstruction of the normal flow of the rivers or of 
        their floodflows; and
            (D) for relocation of any structure or facility, public or 
        private, the relocation of which, in the judgment of the 
        Commissioner, is necessitated by the project; and

        (3) to remove, modify, or repair the damages caused to Mexico by 
    works constructed in the United States which the International 
    Boundary and Water Commission, United States and Mexico, as 
    determined have an adverse effect on Mexico, or to compensate Mexico 
    for such damages.

(Pub. L. 92-549, title I, Sec. 101, Oct. 25, 1972, 86 Stat. 1161.)

                       References in Text

    This Act, referred to in text, means Pub. L. 92-549, Oct. 25, 1972, 
86 Stat. 1161, which enacted sections 277d-34 to 277d-42 of this title 
and amended section 1322 of Title 19, Customs Duties. For complete 
classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out 
below and Tables.


                               Short Title

    Section 1 of Pub. L. 92-549 provided: ``That this Act [enacting this 
section and sections 277d-35 to 277d-42 of this title and amending 
section 1322 of Title 19, Customs Duties] may be cited as the `American-
Mexican Boundary Treaty Act of 1972'.''
