---
kind: "section"
citation: "22 U.S.C. § 277d–6"
title: "22"
title_heading: "Foreign Relations and Intercourse"
number: "277d–6"
heading: "Douglas-Agua Prieta Sanitation Project; operation by Commission; division of costs; contribution by City of Douglas, Arizona"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/22/277d-6"
units:
  - "Chapter 7 — International Bureaus, Congresses, Etc."
  - "Subchapter IV — International Boundary and Water Commission"
---

# §277d–6. Douglas-Agua Prieta Sanitation Project; operation by Commission; division of costs; contribution by City of Douglas, Arizona


The Secretary of State is authorized, notwithstanding any other provision of law and subject to the conditions provided in this section and [section 277d–7 of this title](/usc/22/277d–7.md), to enter into an [agreement](/usc/22/2431a.md?p=7) with the appropriate official or officials of the United Mexican States for the operation and maintenance by the International Boundary and Water [Commission](/usc/22/277d–43.md?p=2), [United States](/usc/22/1395.md?p=a-1) and Mexico, of the Douglas-Agua Prieta sanitation project, located at Douglas, Arizona, and Agua Prieta, Sonora, Mexico, heretofore constructed by the said [Commission](/usc/22/277d–43.md?p=2), which [agreement](/usc/22/2431a.md?p=7) shall contain such provisions relating to a division between the two Governments of the costs of such operation and maintenance, or of the work involved therein, as may be recommended by said [Commission](/usc/22/277d–43.md?p=2) and approved by the Government of Mexico and by the Secretary of State on behalf of the Government of the [United States](/usc/22/1395.md?p=a-1): Provided, That no such [agreement](/usc/22/2431a.md?p=7) shall be entered into until the governing body of the city of Douglas, Arizona, has given assurances satisfactory to the Secretary of State that it will, so long as such [agreement](/usc/22/2431a.md?p=7) remains in force, contribute an equitable proportion, as determined by the [United States](/usc/22/1395.md?p=a-1) Section of said [Commission](/usc/22/277d–43.md?p=2), subject to the approval of the Secretary of State, of the costs of such operation and maintenance allocated to the [United States](/usc/22/1395.md?p=a-1).


## Source credit

(Sept. 13, 1950, ch. 948, title II, § 201, 64 Stat. 848.)