104 STAT. 2786 PUBLIC LAW 101-565 —NOV. 15, 1990 public use within each of the States party hereto in connection with the transportation of persons or property, including railroads, motor vehicles, watercraft, airports and aircraft, docks, wharves, piers, slips, basins, storage places, sheds, warehouses, and every means or vehicle of transportation now or hereafter in use for the transportation of persons and property or the storage, handling or loading of property, as well as all appurtenances and equipment related thereto. " 'Commerce facility or development' means any structure or facility adapted for public use or any development for a public purpose within each of the States party hereto in connection with recreational and commercial fishery development, recreational marina development, aquaculture (marine farming), shoreline preservation and development (including wetlands and open-lands acquisition, active recreational and park development, beach restoration and development, dredge spoil disposal and port-oriented development), foreign trade zone site development, manufacturing and industrial facilities, and other facilities of commerce which, in the judgment of the Authority, are required for the sound economic development of the area. " 'Appurtenances' and 'Equipment' mean all works, buildings, structures, devices, appliances, and supplies, as well as every kind of mechanism, arrangement, object, or substance related to and necessary or convenient for the proper construction, equipment, maintenance, improvement, and operation of any crossing, transportation facility or terminal facility, or commerce facility, or development. " 'Project' means any undertaking or program for the acquisition or creation of any crossing, transportation facility or terminal facility, or commerce facility or development, or any part thereof, as well as for the operation, maintenance, and improvement thereof. " 'Major Project' means any project, other than a crossing, having or likely to have significant environmental impacts on the Delaware River and Bay, its shorelines or estuaries, or any other area in the State of Delaware or the New Jersey counties of Cape May, Cumberland, Gloucester, and Salem, as determined in accordance with State law by the environmental agency of the State in which the major project is to be located. ' 'Tunnel' means a tunnel of one or more tubes. " 'Governor' means any person authorized by the Constitution and law of each State to exercise the functions, powers, and duties of that office. " 'Authority' means the Authority created by this Compact or any agency successor thereto. "The singular whenever used in this Compact shall include the plural, and the plural shall include the singular. " ARTICLE III "FAITHFUL COOPERATION "They agree to and pledge, each to the other, faithful cooperation in the effectuation of this Compact and any future amendment or supplement thereto, and of any legislation expressly in implementetion thereof hereafter enacted, and in the planning, development, financing, construction, operation, maintenance, and improvement of all projects entrusted to the authority created by this Compact.
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