---
kind: "section"
citation: "22 U.S.C. § 277d–8"
title: "22"
title_heading: "Foreign Relations and Intercourse"
number: "277d–8"
heading: "Calexico Mexicali Sanitation Project; operation by Commission; division of costs; contribution by City of Calexico, California"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/22/277d-8"
units:
  - "Chapter 7 — International Bureaus, Congresses, Etc."
  - "Subchapter IV — International Boundary and Water Commission"
---

# §277d–8. Calexico Mexicali Sanitation Project; operation by Commission; division of costs; contribution by City of Calexico, California


The Secretary of State is authorized, subject to the conditions provided in this section and [section 277d–9 of this title](/usc/22/277d–9.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 construction, 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 a sanitation project for the cities of Calexico, California, and Mexicali, Lower California, Mexico, which [agreement](/usc/22/2431a.md?p=7) shall contain such provisions relating to a division between the two Governments of the cost of such construction and operation and maintenance, or of the work involved therein, as may be recommended by the 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 Calexico, California, has given assurances satisfactory to the Secretary of State that, so long as such [agreement](/usc/22/2431a.md?p=7) remains in force, the city of Calexico will 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 construction, operation, and maintenance allocated to the [United States](/usc/22/1395.md?p=a-1).


## Source credit

(Sept. 13, 1950, ch. 948, title III, § 301, 64 Stat. 848.)