Pub. L. 94-423, tit. IV, sec. 401

Sec. 401. The Secretary of the Interior, acting pursuant to the Federal reclamation laws (Act of June 17, 1902; 32 Stat. 388, and Acts amendatory thereof and supplementary thereto), in order to salvage water losses, eliminate hazards to public safety, and to facilitate compliance with the convention between the United States and Mexico concluded May 21, 1906, providing for the equitable division of the waters of the Rio Grande, is authorized as a part of the Rio Grande project, New Mexico-Texas, to construct, operate, and maintain, wholly within the United States, extensions of the American Canal approximately thirteen miles in total length, commencing in the vicinity of 90 STAT. 1328International Dam, El Paso, Texas, and extending to Riverside Heading together with laterals, pumping plants, waste ways, and appurtenant facilities as required to assure continuing irrigation service to the project. Existing facilities no longer required for project service shall be removed or obliterated as a part of the program herein authorized.