§ 277d-30. — Lower Rio Grande drainage conveyance canal projects; agreements with Mexico for construction, operation, and maintenance; division of costs; nonFederal assurances of onehalf of Federal costs.
[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-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.
