A bill to authorize the construction of extensions of the American Canal at El Paso, Tex., operation and maintenance, and for other purposes.

[AI summary unavailable — showing source text] Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior, as a part of the Rio Grande Federal irrigation project, New Mexico-Texas, to construct, operate, and maintain, wholly within the United States, extensions of the American Canal at El Paso, Texas, totaling approximately thirteen miles in length, in accordance with the report by the Bureau of Reclamation, Department of the Interior, designated as "Report on a Modified 'G' Plan for American Canal Extension as a Part of the Chamizal Settlement, United States and Mexico," dated June 1965. Authorizes to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary to defray such costs as may accrue to the United States arising out of the construction, operation, and maintenance of such canal extensions. Authorizes the Secretary to perform any and all acts and to prescribe such regulations as he may deem appropriate to carry out the purposes of this Act.…