22 U.S.C. § 277d–34 — American-Mexican Boundary Treaty, authorization for carrying out treaty provisions; investigations; land acquisition, purposes; damages, repair or compensation

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Under the 1970 treaty resolving boundary disputes on the Rio Grande and Colorado River, the Commissioner can study the river boundary, mapping, and maritime boundaries, plus water resources and pollution; buy or condemn land for treaty transfers, new channels, boundary preservation, and relocations; and repair or compensate for damage that U.S.-built works cause Mexico.

Under the 1970 treaty resolving boundary differences and keeping the Rio Grande and Colorado River as the international boundary, the Secretary of State, acting through the Commissioner, is authorized to: (1) conduct studies of — (A) marking, mapping, and preserving the river boundaries; (B) setting the maritime boundaries in the Gulf of Mexico and Pacific Ocean; (C) water resources; and (D) sanitation and pollution prevention; (2) buy, condemn, or accept as a donation land needed to — (A) transfer to Mexico under the treaty; (B) build the U.S. portion of new river channels and levees; (C) keep the Rio Grande and Colorado as the boundary by stopping works that would deflect or block the rivers' normal or flood flow; and (D) relocate any public or private structure the Commissioner decides the project requires moving; and (3) remove, fix, or repair damage that U.S.-built works cause Mexico, as the Commission determines, or pay Mexico compensation for that damage.

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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.

Source credit: (Pub. L. 92–549, title I, § 101, Oct. 25, 1972, 86 Stat. 1161.)

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1972Enacted · Pub. L. 92-549 · 86 Stat. 1161

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