22 U.S.C. § 277g — Agreements to correct pollution of Rio Grande

submitted 38 years ago by Pub. L. 100-465 to r/title-22-FOREIGN-RELATIONS-AND-INTERCOURSE · 264 words · no verdicts yet

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The Secretary of State, through the Commissioner, can agree with Mexico on ways to fix Rio Grande pollution from raw sewage discharged by border cities on both sides. These agreements should recommend needed facilities, estimate their costs, set an initial cost-split formula reviewed every five years, and set construction start and finish dates.

(a) In general — The Secretary of State, through the Commissioner, may agree with Mexico's Ministry of Foreign Relations on ways to fix Rio Grande pollution caused by raw or poorly treated sewage from border cities — including but not limited to Ciudad Acuña, Nuevo Laredo, and Reynosa, Mexico, and Del Rio, Laredo, and Hidalgo, Texas. (b) Content of agreements — These agreements should recommend measures to protect people's health along the Rio Grande from pollution, including: (1) facilities to build, run, and maintain in each country; (2) cost estimates for planning, building, running, and maintaining those facilities; (3) an initial formula for splitting those costs between the U.S. and Mexico; (4) a way to review and adjust that formula every five years, recognizing the initial formula shouldn't set a precedent for later reviews; and (5) start and finish dates for building the facilities.

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(a) In general

The Secretary of State, acting through the United States Commissioner, International Boundary and Water Commission, United States and Mexico (hereafter in sections 277g to 277g–3 of this title referred to as the “Commissioner”), is authorized to conclude agreements with the appropriate representative of the Ministry of Foreign Relations of Mexico for the purpose of correcting the international problem of pollution of the Rio Grande caused by discharge of raw and inadequately treated sewage and other wastes into such river from the border cities including but not limited to Ciudad Acuna, Nuevo Laredo, and Reynosa, Mexico, and Del Rio, Laredo, and Hidalgo, Texas.

(b) Content of agreements

Agreements concluded under subsection (a) should consist of recommendations to the Governments of the United States and Mexico of measures to protect the health and welfare of persons along the Rio Grande from the effects of pollution, including—

(1)

facilities that should be constructed, operated, and maintained in each country;

(2)

estimates of the cost of plans, construction, operation, and maintenance of the facilities referred to in paragraph (1);

(3)

formulas for the initial division between the United States and Mexico of the cost of plans, constructions, operation, and maintenance of the facilities referred to in paragraph (1);

(4)

a method for review and adjustment of the formulas referred to in paragraph (3) at intervals of five years which recognizes that such initial formulas should not be used as a precedent in their subsequent review and adjustment; and

(5)

dates for the beginning and completion of construction of the facilities referred to in paragraph (1).

Source credit: (Pub. L. 100–465, § 2, Oct. 3, 1988, 102 Stat. 2272.)

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1988Enacted · Pub. L. 100-465 · 102 Stat. 2272

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