§277f Valley Gravity Canal and Storage Project

Summary

The Secretary of State, with the President’s OK, must choose which parts of the Valley Gravity Canal and Storage Project are international in nature. He can change the overall project plan for those parts. After talking with the Bureau of Reclamation about the general design, the American section of the International Boundary Commission (United States and Mexico) will build them. That same Commission will run and keep up those parts when the Secretary of State thinks it is needed because they are international. The project’s building, operation, and upkeep follow the Federal reclamation laws except for two points. First, the President, after talking with the Secretary of State and the Secretary of the Interior, will decide how much of the project’s estimated cost should protect U.S. interests from drought caused by the uncontrolled flow of the international part of the Rio Grande below Old Fort Quitman, Texas; rules like those in section 485h(b) of title 43 on flood-control allocations apply unless they conflict. Second, any money the United States gets from building, operating, or maintaining these project parts must be paid into the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts.