§277f Valley Gravity Canal and Storage Project

Summary

The Secretary of State, with the President’s approval, must pick which parts of the Valley Gravity Canal and Storage Project are international and change the project plan if needed. After talking with the Bureau of Reclamation about design, the American section of the International Boundary Commission (United States and Mexico) will build those parts and will run and keep them up when the Secretary of State thinks their international nature makes that necessary. Construction, operation, and maintenance follow the Federal reclamation laws except as said here. In addition to any nonreimbursable flood control or navigation allocation under section 485h(b) of title 43, the President, after consulting the Secretary of State and the Secretary of the Interior, will assign part of the project’s estimated cost to protect American interests from drought hazards caused by the uncontrolled flow of the international portion of the Rio Grande below Old Fort Quitman, Texas. Rules for allocations under section 485h(b) of title 43 apply as long as they do not conflict. All money the United States gets from building, operating, or maintaining these project parts must be deposited into the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts.