Title 22, Foreign Relations and IntercourseRelease 119-102

§277d–2 Construction and Maintenance of Roads, Highways, Etc.; Housing and Other Facilities for Personnel

Title 22 › CHAPTER 7 — INTERNATIONAL BUREAUS, CONGRESSES, ETC. › SUBCHAPTER IV — INTERNATIONAL BOUNDARY AND WATER COMMISSION › § 277d–2

Last updated Aug 21, 2026|Official source

Summary

The United States Commissioner can build, equip, run, and keep up roads, rail, power lines, buildings, and other facilities needed for a project. He can also provide housing, meals, medical care, and recreation for federal workers and for contractors and their workers on the project. He may charge fees or make deductions from employees’ pay or from contractors’ progress payments for those services. Money collected or taken must be put into the project’s current funding when the costs are incurred.

Full Legal Text

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

Aug 21, 2026

Release point: 119-102