Title 22 — Foreign Relations and IntercourseRelease 119-73
§277d–2 Construction and maintenance of roads, highways, etc.; housing and other facilities for personnel
Title 22 › Chapter CHAPTER 7— - INTERNATIONAL BUREAUS, CONGRESSES, ETC. › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER IV— - INTERNATIONAL BOUNDARY AND WATER COMMISSION › § 277d–2
Summary
The Commissioner can build, equip, run, and maintain roads, railways, power lines, buildings, and other facilities needed for a project. The Commissioner may also provide housing and support services (like meals, medical care, and recreation) for U.S. staff and contractors, charge fees or deduct costs from pay or progress payments, and must credit the money to the project's current funds.
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Title 22, §277d–2
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The United States Commissioner is authorized to construct, equip, and operate and maintain all access roads, highways, railways, power lines, buildings, and facilities necessary in connection with any such project, and in his discretion to provide housing, subsistence, and medical and recreational facilities for the officers, agents, and employees of the United States, and/or for the contractors and their employees engaged in the construction, operation, and maintenance of any such project, and to make equitable charges therefor, or deductions from the salaries and wages due employees, or from progress payments due contractors, upon such terms and conditions as he may determine to be to the best interest of the United States, the sums of money so charged and collected or deducted to be credited to the appropriation for the project current at the time the obligations are incurred.
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Citation
22 U.S.C. § 277d–2
Title 22 — Foreign Relations and Intercourse
Last Updated
Apr 6, 2026
Release point: 119-73