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 1162 Transfer of authority.

E x c e s s land sale.

63 Stat. 377. 40 USC 471 note. Channel shifts, boundary determination.

Acquired land, addition to State. State jurisdiction.

HidalgoReynosa lands, administration.

67 Stat. 516.

Custom duties, exemption.

23 USC 371. Appropriation.

PUBLIC LAW 92-549-OCT. 25, 1972

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(3) to turn over the operation and maintenance of any works referred to in paragraph (1) of this section to any Federal agency, or any State, county, municipality, district, or other political subdivision within which such works may be situated, in whole or in part, upon such terms, conditions, and requirements as the Commissioner may deem appropriate. SEC. 103. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Commissioner is authorized to dispose of by warranty deed, or otherwise, any land acquired by him on behalf of the United States, or obtained by the United States pursuant to treaty between the United States and Mexico, and not required for project purposes, under procedures to be formulated by the Commissioner, to adjoining landowners at such price as he considers fair and equitable, and, if not so disposed of, to turn such land over to the General Services Administration for disposal under the provisions of the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949. SEC. 104. When a determination must be made under the treaty whether to permit a new channel to become the boundary, or whether or not to restore a river to its former channel, or whether, instead of restoration, the Governments should undertake a rectification of the river channel, the Commissioner's decision, approved by the Secretary of State, shall be final so far as the United States is concerned, and the Commissioner is authorized to construct or arrange for the construction of such works as may be required to give effect to that decision. SEC. 105. Land acquired or to be acc[uired by the United States of America in accordance with the provisions of the treaty, including the tract provided for in section 106, shall become a geographical part of the State to which it attaches and shall be under the civil and criminal jurisdiction of such State, without affecting the ownership of such land. The addition of land and the ceding of jurisdiction to a State shall take effect upon acceptance by such State. SEC. 106. Upon transfer of sovereignty from Mexico to the United States of the 481.68 acres of land acquired by the United States from Mexico near Hidalgo-Reynosa, administration over the portion of that land which is determined by the Commissioner not to be required for the construction and maintenance of the relocated river channel shall be assumed by the Department of the Interior; and the Department of the Interior, Fish and Wildlife Service, Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife, is authorized to plan, establish, develop, and administer such portion of the acquired lands as a part of the national wildlife refuge system. SEC. 107. (a) The heading of section 322 of the Tariff Act of 1930 (19 U.S.C. 1322) is amended by inserting immediately before the period at the end thereof the following: "; UNITED STATESMEXICO BOUNDARY TREATY OF 1970". (b) Subsection (b) of such section 322 is amended by striking out "and" at the end of clause (2), by striking cut the period at the end of clause (3) and inserting in lieu thereof "; and", and by adding at the end thereof the following new clause: " (4) personal property reasonably related to the use and enjoyment of a separated tract of land as described in article III of the Treaty To Resolve Pending Boundary Differences and Maintain the Rio Grande and Colorado Rivers as the International Boundary between the United States of America and the United Mexican States signed on November 23, 1970.". SEC. 108. There is authorized to be appropriated to the Department of State for the use of the United States section of the International

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