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 93 STAT. 1242

PUBLIC LAW 96-163—DEC. 28, 1979

Public Law 96-163 96th Congress An Act Dec. 28, 1979 [H.R. 4943]

New York-New Jersey Port Authority Compact. Congressional consent. Findings and determinations.

Granting the consent of Congress to the compact between the States of New York and New Jersey providing for the coordination, facilitation, promotion, preservation, and protection of trade and commerce in and through the Port of New York District through the financing and effectuation of industrial development projects.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the consent of Congress is given to an agreement or compact amendatory of and supplemental to the Compact between the States of New York and New Jersey creating the Port of New York District and establishing the Port of New York Authority which agreement or compact has been agreed to by such States effective August 24, 1978, and is substantially as follows: "SECTION 1. The states of New York and New Jersey hereby find and determine: "a. that to prevent further deterioration of the economy of the port district and thereby to promote, preserve and protect trade and commerce in and through the port of New York district as defined in the compact between the two states dated April thirty, nineteen hundred twenty-one (hereinafter called the port district), it is the policy of each of the two states actively to promote, attract, encourage and develop economically sound commerce and industry through governmental action; "b. that in order to preserve and protect the position of the port of New York as the nation's leading gateway for world commerce, it is incumbent on the states of New York and New Jersey to make every effort to insure that the port receives its rightful share of interstate and international commerce generated by the manufacturing, industrial, trade and commercial segments of the economy of the nation and of the port district; "c. that since nineteen hundred fifty the number of available jobs in the port district, particularly within the older central cities thereof, has decreased, thereby resulting in the underutilization of available land and other resources, the erosion of the port district's tax bgises and a rate of unemployment substantially in excess of the national average; "d. that in order to preserve the port district from further economic deterioration, adequate industrial development projects and facilities must be provided, preserved and maintained to attract and retain industry within the port district; "e. that a number of new industrial development projects and facilities should be organized into industrial parks or districts; "f. that the construction of such industrial parks or districts shall conform to the policies of the two states with respect to affirmative action and equal employment opportunities; "g. that providing port district industrial development projects and facilities is in the public interest and involves the exercise of public and essential governmental functions which may include appropriate

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