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6 . of groundwater data for the two major groundwater basins lying partly in the United States and partly in Mexico: 1) the Colorado River Delta Area and 2) the E1 Paso-Juarez Valley. The objective of the exchange is to define the basins and quantify the groundwater in the basins, and to evaluate the withdrawals on each side and their effects, to serve as a basis for discussions in the Commission's 'effort to reach an agreement which would enable reasonable development and use by each of the two countries of the groundwaters in the basins. The data exchange program for the El Paso-Juarez Area began in 1974, and continued through 1975. The program for the exchange of data relating to groundwater in the Colorado River Delta Area, started in 1972, was accelerated in 1975. New Developments Point 6 of Minute No. 242 provides that: . " . the United States and Mexico shall consult with each other prior to undertaking any new development of either the surface or the groundwater resources, or undertaking substantial modifications of present develop- ments, in its own territory in the border area that might adversely affect the other country," There has been no known new development or modification in either country that might adversely affect the other country during 1975. Assistance to Mexico in Rehabilitation Program Point 7 of Minute No. 242 provides that: "The United States will support efforts by Mexico to obtain appropriate financing on favorable terms for the improvement and rehabilitation of the Mexicali Valley. The United States will also provide nonreimbursable assistance on a basis mutually acceptable to both countries, exclusively for those aspects of the Mexican rehabilitation program of 'the Mexicali Valley relating to the salinity problem, including tile drainage." The Government of Mexico has not asked the United States for assistance in obtaining financing for the improvement and rehabilitation of the Mexicali Valley. Nor has Mexico proposed .