§ 277d-26. — Lower Colorado River emergency flood control works; agreements with Mexico for joint construction, operation and maintenance.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 22USC277d-26]
TITLE 22--FOREIGN RELATIONS AND INTERCOURSE
CHAPTER 7--INTERNATIONAL BUREAUS, CONGRESSES, ETC.
SUBCHAPTER IV--INTERNATIONAL BOUNDARY AND WATER COMMISSION
Sec. 277d-26. Lower Colorado River emergency flood control
works; agreements with Mexico for joint construction, operation
and maintenance
The Secretary of State, acting through the United States
Commissioner, International Boundary and Water Commission, United States
and Mexico, is authorized to conclude, with the appropriate official or
officials of the Government of Mexico, agreements for emergency flood
control measures of international character in the reaches of the lower
Colorado River between Imperial Dam and the Gulf of California, in both
the United States and Mexico, such agreements to provide: (a) for the
joint clearing and maintaining free of trees and brush the bed and banks
of the channel; for removing sediment deposits from the river channel;
and (b) for corrective actions to guard against sedimentation and
consequent aggradation of the river channel incident to desilting
operations at diversion dams in the two countries: Provided, That, prior
approval of the Secretary of the Interior is required of any proposed
agreement with Mexico under clause (b) of this section which would
involve construction and/or operation of works on the Colorado River in
the United States under the jurisdiction of the Secretary. The measures
contemplated herein are for the purpose of controlling floods on the
lower Colorado River in accordance with article 13 of the 1944 Water
Treaty with Mexico, and accomplishment thereof by the International
Boundary and Water Commission, United States Section, would be in accord
with the Memorandum of Understanding ``as to Functions and Jurisdiction
of Agencies of the United States in Relation to the Colorado and Tijuana
Rivers and the Rio Grande Below Fort Quitman, Texas, Under Water Treaty
Signed at Washington, February 3, 1944,'' between the Department of
State and the United States Section, International Boundary and Water
Commission and the Department of the Interior dated February 14, 1945.
(Pub. L. 88-411, Sec. 1, Aug. 10, 1964, 78 Stat. 386.)
Section Referred to in Other Sections
This section is referred to in sections 277d-27, 277d-28 of this
title.
