Title 33 — Navigation and Navigable Waters
Chapter 29 — Deepwater Ports
§ 1521. Negotiations with Canada and Mexico; report to Congress
Statutory text
The President of the United States is authorized and requested to enter into negotiations with the Governments of Canada and Mexico to determine:
the need for intergovernmental understandings, agreements, or treaties to protect the interests of the people of Canada, Mexico, and the United States and of any party or parties involved with the construction or operation of deepwater ports; and
the desirability of undertaking joint studies and investigations designed to insure protection of the environment and to eliminate any legal and regulatory uncertainty, to assure that the interests of the people of Canada, Mexico, and the United States are adequately met.
The President shall report to the Congress the actions taken, the progress achieved, the areas of disagreement, and the matters about which more information is needed, together with his recommendations for further action.
Legislative history
Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.
Deepwater Port Act of 1974
Pub. L. 93–627 § 22 · 88 Stat. 2127
Enacted · 33 U.S.C. § 1521
(Pub. L. 93–627, § 22, Jan. 3, 1975, 88 Stat. 2147.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 93–627, § 22, Jan. 3, 1975, 88 Stat. 2147.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 22. negotiations with canada and mexico The President of the United States is authorized and 33 USC 1521. requested to enter into negotiations with the Governments of Canada and Mexico to determine: (1) the need for intergovernmental understandings, agreements, or treaties to protect the interests of the people of Canada, Mexico, and the United States and of any party or parties involved with the construction or operation of deepwater ports; and (2) the desirability of undertaking joint studies and investigations designed to insure protection of the environment and to eliminate any legal and regulatory uncertainty, to assure that the interests of the people of Canada, Mexico, and the United States are adequately met. The President shall report to the Congress the actions taken, the Report to Congress. progress achieved, the areas of disagreement, and the matters about which more information is needed, together with his recommendations for further action.
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