40 USC § 15732 - Southwest Border Regional Commission

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title: "40 USC § 15732 - Southwest Border Regional Commission"
title_number: 40
title_name: "PUBLIC BUILDINGS, PROPERTY, AND WORKS"
section_number: "15732"
section_name: "Southwest Border Regional Commission"
chapter_number: 157
chapter_name: "ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS"
subchapter_number: "II"
subchapter_name: "DESIGNATION OF REGIONS"
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last_updated: "2026-04-17"
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source_credit: "(Added Pub. L. 110–234, title XIV, § 14217(a)(2), May 22, 2008, 122 Stat. 1481, and Pub. L. 110–246, § 4(a), title XIV, § 14217(a)(2), June 18, 2008, 122 Stat. 1664, 2243; amended Pub. L. 118–272, div. B, title II, § 2246, Jan. 4, 2025, 138 Stat. 3204.)"
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# § 15732. Southwest Border Regional Commission

The region of the Southwest Border Regional Commission shall consist of the following political subdivisions:

**(1)** **Arizona.—** The counties of Cochise, Gila, Graham, Greenlee, La Paz, Maricopa, Pima, Pinal, Santa Cruz, and Yuma in the State of Arizona.

**(2)** **California.—** The counties of Imperial, Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, San Diego, and Ventura in the State of California.

**(3)** **New mexico.—** The counties of Bernalillo, Catron, Chaves, Cibola, Curry, De Baca, Dona Ana, Eddy, Grant, Guadalupe, Hidalgo, Lea, Lincoln, Luna, Otero, Roosevelt, Sierra, Socorro, Torrance, and Valencia in the State of New Mexico.

**(4)** **Texas.—** The counties of Atascosa, Bandera, Bee, Bexar, Brewster, Brooks, Cameron, Coke, Concho, Crane, Crockett, Culberson, Dimmit, Duval, Ector, Edwards, El Paso, Frio, Gillespie, Glasscock, Guadalupe, Hidalgo, Hudspeth, Irion, Jeff Davis, Jim Hogg, Jim Wells, Karnes, Kendall, Kenedy, Kerr, Kimble, Kinney, Kleberg, La Salle, Live Oak, Loving, Mason, Maverick, McMullen, Medina, Menard, Midland, Nueces, Pecos, Presidio, Reagan, Real, Reeves, San Patricio, Shleicher, Sutton, Starr, Sterling, Terrell, Tom Green, Upton, Uvalde, Val Verde, Ward, Webb, Willacy, Wilson, Winkler, Zapata, and Zavala in the State of Texas.

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**Source Credit**: (Added Pub. L. 110–234, title XIV, § 14217(a)(2), May 22, 2008, 122 Stat. 1481, and Pub. L. 110–246, § 4(a), title XIV, § 14217(a)(2), June 18, 2008, 122 Stat. 1664, 2243; amended Pub. L. 118–272, div. B, title II, § 2246, Jan. 4, 2025, 138 Stat. 3204.)

## Editorial Notes

### Codification

and  enacted identical sections.  was repealed by .

### Amendments

2025—Par. (3). , inserted “Bernalillo,” before “Catron,”, “Cibola, Curry, De Baca,” after “Chaves,”, “Guadalupe,” after “Grant,”, “Lea,” after “Hidalgo,”, and “Roosevelt,” after “Otero,” and substituted “Socorro, Torrance, and Valencia” for “and Socorro”.

Par. (4). , inserted “Guadalupe,” after “Glasscock,” and substituted “Tom Green, Upton,” for “Tom Green Upton,”.

## Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Section effective on the first day of the first fiscal year beginning after , see , set out as a note under .