# § 277a. Investigations of commission; construction of works or projects
The Secretary of State, acting through the American Commissioner, International Boundary Commission, United States and Mexico, is further authorized to conduct technical and other investigations relating to the defining, demarcation, fencing, or monumentation of the land and water boundary between the United States and Mexico, to flood control, water resources, conservation, and utilization of water, sanitation and prevention of pollution, channel rectification, stabilization, drainage of transboundary storm waters, and other related matters upon the international boundary between the United States and Mexico; and to construct and maintain fences, monuments and other demarcations of the boundary line between the United States and Mexico, and sewer systems, water systems, and electric light, power and gas systems crossing the international border, and to continue such work and operations through the American Commissioner as are now in progress and are authorized by law.
The President is authorized and empowered to construct, operate, and maintain on the Rio Grande River below Fort Quitman, Texas, any and all works or projects which are recommended to the President as the result of such investigations and by the President are deemed necessary and proper.
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**Source Credit**: (May 13, 1924, ch. 153, § 2, 43 Stat. 118; Mar. 3, 1927, ch. 381, § 2, 44 Stat. 1403; Aug. 19, 1935, ch. 561, 49 Stat. 660; Pub. L. 101–246, title IV, § 412(b)(2), Feb. 16, 1990, 104 Stat. 70.)
## Editorial Notes
### Amendments
1990— inserted reference to drainage of transboundary storm waters.
1935—Act , amended section generally.
1927—Act , increased appropriation from $20,000 to $50,000.
## Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
### Change of Name
International Boundary Commission, United States and Mexico, American section, to which powers, duties, and functions of International Water Commission, United States and Mexico, American section, were transferred by , pt. II, title V, § 510, , reconstituted as International Boundary and Water Commission by Water Treaty of 1944.
### Repeals
Act , cited as a credit to this section, was repealed by , , .
### Water Resources Planning
Jurisdiction, powers, or prerogatives of the International Boundary and Water Commission, United States and Mexico, unaffected by Water Resources Planning Act, see , The Public Health and Welfare.