32:27-3.Ā  Purpose and findings
The legislative bodies of the signatory parties hereby find and declare thatĀ  the transportation and land resources of the area are affected with a local,Ā  State, regional and national interest and their planning under appropriateĀ  arrangements for interstate co-operation, is a public purpose of the respectiveĀ  signatory parties.

In general, the purposes of this compact are to organize and conduct a continuing, comprehensive, co-ordinated regional planning program for the area,Ā  including but not limited to transportation planning for the interests andĀ  purposes, consistent with its annual budgets, of the agencies of New Jersey andĀ  Pennsylvania represented by commissioners as well as for the purposes of theĀ  local governments and their planning agencies.

L.1966, c. 149, Pt. I, Art. I, s. 3, eff. June 18, 1966.
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