PUBLIC LAW 101-565 —NOV. 15, 1990 104 STAT. 2787 " ARTICLE IV "ESTABLISHMENT OF AGENCY; PURPOSES "The two States agree that there shall be created and they do hereby create a body politic, to be known as 'The Delaware River and Bay Authority' (for brevity hereinafter referred to as the 'Authority'), which shall constitute an agency of government of the State of Delaware and the State of New Jersey for the following general public purposes, and which shall be deemed to be exercising essential government functions in effectuating such purposes, to wit: "(a) The planning, financing, development, construction, purchase, lease, maintenance, improvement, and operation of crossings between the States of Delaware and New Jersey across the Delaware River or Bay at any location south of the boundary line between the State of Delaware and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania as extended across the Delaware River to the New Jersey shore of said River, together with such approaches or connections thereto as in the judgment of the Authority are required to make adequate and efficient connections between such crossings and any public highway or other routes in the State of Delaware or in the State of New Jersey; and "(b) The planning, financing, development, construction, purchase, lease, maintenance, improvement, and operation of any transportation or terminal facility within the State of Delaware or the New Jersey counties of Cape May, Cumberland, Gloucester, gmd Salem, which facility, in the judgment of the Authority, is required for the sound economic development of the area; and "(c) The planning, financing, development, construction, purchase, lease, maintenance, improvement, and operation of any commerce facility or development within the State of Delaware or the New Jersey counties of Cape May, Cumberland, Gloucester, and Salem, which in the judgment of the Authority is required for the sound economic development of the area; and "(d) The performance of such other functions as may be hereafter entrusted to the Authority by concurrent legislation expressly in implementation hereof. "The Authority shall not undertake any major project or part thereof without having first secured such approvals as may be required by legislation of the State in which the project is to be located. "The Authority shall not undertake any major project, or part thereof to be located in the Delaware River or Bay, including, without limitation, any deep-water port or superport, without having first secured approval thereof by concurrent legislation of the two States expressly in implementation thereof. "The Authority shall not undertake any major project or part thereof without first giving public notice and holding a public hearing, if requested, on any proposed major project, in accordance with the law of the State in which the major project is to be located. Each State shall provide by law for the time and manner for the giving of such public notice, the requesting of a public hearing and the holding of such public hearings.
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