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PUBLIC LAW 86-303-SEPT. 21, 1959

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SEC. 2. The consent of Congress granted pursuant to this joint resolution is subject to the following conditions or requirements: (a) The right to alter, amend, or repeal this joint resolution is hereby expressly reserved. (b) Any long-range plan, when adopted by concurrent legislation of the compacting statis, shall be submitted to Congress for its consent before such long-range plan becomes effective. (c) Any concurrent legislation enacted by the compacting states amending or supplementing this compact shall be submitted to Congress for its consent before such legislation becomes effective, except that this subsection shall not apply to article 4.6 of this compact. (d) The New York-New Jersey Transportation Agency Compact shall submit to Congress the same periodic reports it is required to make to the governors and legislatures of the compacting states, pursuant to and under the same conditions of section 3.8 of the compact. (e) The right is hereby reserved to the Congress to require the disclosure and furnishing of such information or data as is deemed appropriate by the Congress. Congress shall have access to all books, records or papers of the New York-New Jersey Transportation Agency as well as the ri^ht of inspection of any facility being used or under the control of said Agency. (f) Nothing contained in this joint resolution or the Compact set out herein shall be construed as impairing or in any manner affecting any right or jurisdiction of any department, agency, bureau or other office of the United States Government having regulatory or administrative powers over or concerning interstate or foreign commerce. Approved September 21, 1959. Public Law 86-303

September 21, 1959

[H. J. Res. 465]

64 Stat. 568.

B i - State Development Agency, Mo.-111. Additional powers.

JOINT RESOLUTION Approvin? certain additional powers conferred upon the Bi-State Development Agency by the States of Missouri and Illinois.

Whereas the Congress in consenting to the compact between Missouri and Illinois creating the Bi-State Development Agency and the Bi-State Metropolitan District in Public Law 743, Eighty-first Congress, approved August 31, 1950, provided that no power or powers shall be exercised by the Bi-State Agency under that certain portion of article III of such compact which reads: "8. To exercise such additional powers as shall be conferred on it by the legislature of either state concurred in by the legislature of the other or by Act of Congress." unless and until such power or powers shall have been conferred upon the Bi-State Agency by the legislature of one of the States to the compact and concurred in by the legislature of the other and shall have been approved by an Act of Congress; and Whereas such States have now enacted certain legislation in order to confer certain additional powers on such Bi-State Development Agency: Now, therefore, be it Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Congress hereby approves the additional powers conferred on the Bi-State Development Agency by senate bill numbered 364, Daws of Illinois 1953; senate bill numbered 97, Laws of Illinois 1959; senate bill numbered 11, Laws of Missouri 1957, second extra session; and senate bill numbered 25, Laws of Missouri 1959.

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