---
kind: "section"
citation: "22 U.S.C. § 277d–40"
title: "22"
title_heading: "Foreign Relations and Intercourse"
number: "277d–40"
heading: "Authorization of appropriations"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/22/277d-40"
units:
  - "Chapter 7 — International Bureaus, Congresses, Etc."
  - "Subchapter IV — International Boundary and Water Commission"
---

# §277d–40. Authorization of appropriations


There is authorized to be appropriated to the Department of State for the use of the United States section of the International Boundary and Water [Commission](/usc/22/277d–43.md?p=2), United States and Mexico, such sums as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of the treaty and title I of this Act.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 92–549, title I, § 108, Oct. 25, 1972, 86 Stat. 1162.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

This Act, referred to in text, is Pub. L. 92–549, Oct. 25, 1972, 86 Stat. 1161, known as the “American-Mexican Boundary Treaty Act of 1972”. Title I of this Act enacted sections 277d–34 to 277d–40 of this title and amended section 1322 of Title 19, Customs Duties. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 277d–34 of this title and Tables.