---
kind: "section"
citation: "22 U.S.C. § 277h"
title: "22"
title_heading: "Foreign Relations and Intercourse"
number: "277h"
heading: "Authority of the International Boundary and Water Commission to assist State and local governments"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/22/277h"
units:
  - "Chapter 7 — International Bureaus, Congresses, Etc."
  - "Subchapter IV — International Boundary and Water Commission"
---

# §277h. Authority of the International Boundary and Water Commission to assist State and local governments

- (a) **Authority—** The Commissioner of the United States section of the International Boundary and Water [Commission](/usc/22/277d–43.md?p=2) may provide technical tests, evaluations, information, surveys, or others[^1] similar services to State or local governments upon the request of such State or local government on a reimbursable basis.
- (b) **Reimbursements—** Reimbursements shall be paid in advance of the goods or services ordered and shall be for the estimated or actual cost as determined by the United States section of the International Boundary and Water [Commission](/usc/22/277d–43.md?p=2). Proper adjustment of amounts paid in advance shall be made as determined by the United States section of the International Boundary and Water [Commission](/usc/22/277d–43.md?p=2) on the basis of the actual cost of goods or services provided. Reimbursements received by the United States section of the International Boundary and Water [Commission](/usc/22/277d–43.md?p=2) for providing services under this section shall be credited to the appropriation from which the cost of providing the services is charged.

## Footnotes

[^1]: So in original. Probably should be “other”.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 106–113, div. B, § 1000(a)(7) [div. A, title VII, § 702], Nov. 29, 1999, 113 Stat. 1536, 1501A–459.)