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Show conservation and utilization of the natural resources of the United States. The Secretary of State and the Secretary of the Interior will cooperate in making studies, reports and recommendations, including those pertaining to the obtaining of such legislative authorization as may be necessary, concerning the allocation of costs of construction and operation and maintenance of existing or future works, and of water investigations, within the United States which have been heretofore, or may be in the future, constructed or performed in whole or in part under authority vested in the Secretary of the Interior and which may be utilized in whole or in part in the fulfillment of the treaty. 4. Unless and until otherwise provided in accordance with the domestic law of the United States, in conformance with the treaty and the protocol, the Bureau shall exercise or continue to exercise jurisdiction, and shall perform functions and construction, where new construction may be involved, and operation and maintenance, within the principles stated herein, as to facilities and works as follows: (a) Rio Grande (1) All facilities and works within the United States constituting the Valley Gravity Canal and Storage project as provided for in the Act of June 28, 1941 (55 Stat. 303, 338) except those portions of the Project designated by the Secretary of State, under the authority of that Act, as being international in character: Provided, however, that whenever the construction, operation or maintenance of any feature of such works or facilities may involve the use of, affect or interfere with the construction, operation or maintenance of any feature of the Lower Rio Grande Flood Control project under the jurisdiction of the United States Section, the plans and specifications and principles of operation as to such feature of the said Valley Gravity Canal and Storage project shall be formulated by the Bureau subject to the approval of the United States Section. (b) Colorado River (1) All facilities and works above and including Laguna Dam, and all works constituting a part of the Yuma and Gila Federal Reclamation project of the Department of the Interior. (2) All-American Canal. (3) Pilot Knob check and wasteway and, to whatever extent provision may be made for the generation of electric energy at Pilot Knob by the United States, the Pilot Knob power plant and appurtenances. (4) The design of the protective works within the United States contemplated by the provisions of Article 12 (a) of the treaty as a result of the construction of the Mexican diversion 118 |