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§15732 Southwest Border Regional Commission
Title 40 › Subtitle SUBTITLE V— REGIONAL ECONOMIC AND INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT › Chapter 157— ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS › Subchapter II— DESIGNATION OF REGIONS › § 15732
Summary
Creates the Southwest Border Regional Commission region by naming which counties are included. It covers counties in Arizona, California, New Mexico, and Texas. The region includes 10 counties in Arizona, 7 counties in California, 20 counties in New Mexico, and 66 counties in Texas.
Full Legal Text
Title 40, §15732
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The region of the Southwest Border Regional Commission shall consist of the following political subdivisions:
(1)The counties of Cochise, Gila, Graham, Greenlee, La Paz, Maricopa, Pima, Pinal, Santa Cruz, and Yuma in the State of Arizona.
(2)The counties of Imperial, Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, San Diego, and Ventura in the State of California.
(3)The counties of Bernalillo, Catron, Chaves, Cibola, Curry, De Baca, Dona Ana, Eddy, Grant, Guadalupe, Hidalgo, Lea, Lincoln, Luna, Otero, Roosevelt, Sierra, Socorro, Torrance, and Valencia in the State of New Mexico.
(4)The counties of Atascosa, Bandera, Bee, Bexar, Brewster, Brooks, Cameron, Coke, Concho, Crane, Crockett, Culberson, Dimmit, Duval, Ector, Edwards, El Paso, Frio, Gillespie, Glasscock, Guadalupe, Hidalgo, Hudspeth, Irion, Jeff Davis, Jim Hogg, Jim Wells, Karnes, Kendall, Kenedy, Kerr, Kimble, Kinney, Kleberg, La Salle, Live Oak, Loving, Mason, Maverick, McMullen, Medina, Menard, Midland, Nueces, Pecos, Presidio, Reagan, Real, Reeves, San Patricio, Shleicher, Sutton, Starr, Sterling, Terrell, Tom Green, Upton, Uvalde, Val Verde, Ward, Webb, Willacy, Wilson, Winkler, Zapata, and Zavala in the State of Texas.
Legislative History
Notes & Related Subsidiaries
Editorial Notes
Codification Pub. L. 110–234 and Pub. L. 110–246 enacted identical sections. Pub. L. 110–234 was repealed by section 4(a) of Pub. L. 110–246.
Amendments
2025—Par. (3). Pub. L. 118–272, § 2246(1), inserted “Bernalillo,” before “Catron,”, “Cibola, Curry, De Baca,” after “Chaves,”, “Guadalupe,” after “Grant,”, “Lea,” after “Hidalgo,”, and “Roosevelt,” after “Otero,” and substituted “Socorro, Torrance, and Valencia” for “and Socorro”. Par. (4). Pub. L. 118–272, § 2246(2), inserted “Guadalupe,” after “Glasscock,” and substituted “Tom Green, Upton,” for “Tom Green Upton,”.
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Effective Date
Section effective on the first day of the first fiscal year beginning after June 18, 2008, see section 14217(d) of Pub. L. 110–246, set out as a note under section 15101 of this title.
Reference
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Citation
40 U.S.C. § 15732
Title 40 — Public Buildings, Property, and Works
Last Updated
Apr 5, 2026
Release point: 119-73not60