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[CITE: 22USC3619]

 
               TITLE 22--FOREIGN RELATIONS AND INTERCOURSE
 
                        CHAPTER 51--PANAMA CANAL
 
              SUBCHAPTER I--ADMINISTRATION AND REGULATIONS
 
                     Part 1--Panama Canal Commission
 
Sec. 3619. Joint sea level canal study


(a) Committee; appointment of representatives

    The President shall appoint the representatives of the United States 
to any joint committee or body with the Republic of Panama to study the 
possibility of a sea level canal in the Republic of Panama pursuant to 
Article XII of the Panama Canal Treaty of 1977.

(b) Transmittal of study to President of Senate and Speaker of House of 
        Representatives

    Upon the completion of any joint study between the United States and 
the Republic of Panama concerning the feasibility of a sea level canal 
in the Republic of Panama pursuant to paragraph 1 of Article XII of the 
Panama Canal Treaty of 1977, the text of the study shall be transmitted 
by the President to the President of the Senate and to the Speaker of 
the House of Representatives.

(c) Congressional authorization respecting construction of sea level 
        canal

    No construction of a sea level canal by the United States in the 
Republic of Panama shall be undertaken except with express congressional 
authorization after submission of the study by the President as provided 
in subsection (b) of this section.

(Pub. L. 96-70, title I, Sec. 1109, Sept. 27, 1979, 93 Stat. 459.)
