Joint resolution granting consent of Congress to the State of Delaware and the State of New Jersey to enter into a compact to establish the Delaware River and Bay Authority for the development of the area in both States bordering the Delaware River and Bay
PL 87-678 (H.J.Res.783), enacted 09/20/1962

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cial branch of the United States Government within the meaning of 
the Civil Service Retirement Act. 
"(2) Any referee who has retired or been retired under the provi-
sions of paragraph (1) of this subdivision may, if called upon by a 
judge of a court of bankruptcy, perform such duties of a referee, 
conciliation commissioner, or special master under this Act, within 
the jurisdiction of the court, ^s he may be able and willing to under-
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ices, either full or part time, the salary authorized for the referee serv-
ing the territory to which the retired referee is assigned. However, 
the rate of compensation of a retired referee assigned to serve on a 
full-time basis in the territory of a part-time referee shall be the mini-
mum rate established by the Judicial Conference of the United States 
for full-time service. Salaries authorized under this paragraph shall 
be subject to the provisions of section 13(b) of the Civil Service 
70 Stat. 757. 
Retirement Act." 
Approved September 19, 1962. 
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Public Law 87-678 
September 20. 1962 
JOINT RESOLUTION 
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Granting consent of Congress to the State of Delaware and the State of New 
Jersey to enter into a compact to establish the Delaware River and Bay 
Authority for the development of the area in both States bordering the 
Delaware River and Bay. 
Whereas, the State of Delaware and the State of New Jersey, pursuant 
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to legislative authority adopted by each State, being 53 Laws of 
Jersey Compact. 
Delaware, chapter 145, and P.L. 1961, chapter 66 of the Laws of 
New Jersey, have provided, subject to the consent of Congress, for 
a compact, known as the Delaware-New Jersey Compact, establish-
ing "The Delaware River and Bay Authority" for the development 
of the area in both States bordering the said Delaware River and 
Bay; and 
Whereas, said compact reads as follows: 
DELAWARE-NEW J E R S E Y 
COMPACT 
Whereas, The State of Delaware and New Jersey are separated by the 
Delaware River and Bay which create a natural obstacle to the 
uninterrupted passage of traffic other than by water and with normal 
commercial activity between the two States thereby hindering the 
economic growth and development of those areas in both States 
which border the River and Bay; and 
Whereas, the pressures of existing trends from increasing traffic, 
growing population and greater industrialization indicate the need 
for closer cooperation between the two States in order to advance the 
economic development and to improve crossings, transportation, 
terminal and other facilities of the area; and 
Whereas, the financing, construction, operation and maintenance of 
such crossings, transportation, terminal and other facilities of com-
merce and the over-all planning for future economic development of 
the area may be best accomplished for the benefit of the two States 
and their citizens, the region and nation, by the cordial cooperation 
of Delaware and New Jersey by and through a joint or common 
agency or authority; 
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Now, therefore, the State of Delaware and the State of New 
Jersey, do hereby solemnly covenant and agree, each with the other 
as follows: 
ARTICLE 
I. 
SHORT TITLE. 
This Compact shall be known as the "Delaware-New Jersey 
Compact." 
ARTICLE 
II. 
DEFINITIONS. 
"Crossing" means any structure or facility adapted for public 
use in crossing the Delaware River or Bay between the States, 
whether by bridge, tunnel, ferry or other device, and by any vehicle 
or means of transportation of persons or property, as well as all 
approaches thereto and connecting and service routes and all appur-
tenances and equipment relating thereto. 
"Transportation facility" and "terminal facility" mean any struc-
ture or facility other than a crossing as herein defined, adapted for 
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 transporta-
tion of persons and property or the storage, handling or loading of 
property, as well as all appurtenances and equipment related thereto. 
"Appurtenances" and "equipment" mean all works, buildings, 
structures, devices, appliances and supplies, as well as every kind 
of mechanism, arrangement, object or suDstance related to and neces-
sary or convenient for the proper construction, equipment, mainte-
nance, improvement and operation of any crossing, transportation 
facility or terminal facility. 
"Project" means any undertaking or program for the acquisition 
or creation of any crossing, transportation facility or terminal facil-
ity, or any part thereof, as well as for the operation, maintenance 
and improvement thereof. 
"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 herein shall include the plural, and 
the plural shall include the singular. 
ARTICLE III. 
F A I T H F U L 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 implementa-
tion 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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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 Kiver 
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 governmental 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 judg-
ment of the Authority are re(^uired 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 transporta-
tion or terminal facility within those areas of both States which 
border on or are adjacent to the Delaware River or Bay south of the 
aforesaid line and which in the judgment of the States is required 
for the sound economic development of the area; and 
(c) 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 project or part thereof, 
other than a crossing, without having first secured approval thereof 
by concurrent legislation of the two States expressly in implementa-
tion hereof. 
ARTICLE V. 
COMMISSIONERS. 
The Authority shall consist of ten Commissionei-s, five of whom 
shall be residents of and qualified to vote in, and shall be appointed 
from, the State of Delaware, and five of whom shall be residents of 
and qualified to vote in, and shall be appointed from, the State of 
New Jersey; not more than three of the Commissioners of each State 
shall be of the same political party; the Commissioners for each 
State shall be appointed in the manner fixed and determined from 
time to time by the law of each State respectively. 
Each Commis-
sioner shall hold office for a term of five years, and until his successor 
shall have been appointed and qualified, but the terms of the first 
Commissioners shall be so designated that the term of one Com-
missioner from each State shall expire each year. All terms shall 
run to the first day of July. Any vacancy, however created, shall 
be filled for the unexpired term only. Any Commissioner may be 
suspended or removed from office as provided by law of the State 
from which he shall be appointed. 
Commissioners shall be entitled to reimbursement for necessary 
expenses to be paid only from revenues of the Authority and may not 
receive any other compensation for services to the Authority ex-
cept such as may from time to time be authorized from such reve-
nues by concurrent legislation. 
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ARTICLE VI. 
BOARD ACTIOX. 
The Commissioners shall have charge of the Authority's prop-
erty and affairs and shall, for the purpose of doing business, consti-
tute a Board; but no action of the Commissioners shall be binding or 
effective unless taken at a meeting at which at least three Commis-
sioners from each State are present, and unless at least three Com-
missioners from each State shall vote in favor thereof. 
The vote 
of any one or more of the Commissioners from each State shall be 
subject to cancellation by the Governor of such State at any time 
within 10 days (Saturdays, Sundays, and public holidays in the 
particular State excepted) after receipt at the Governor's Office 
of a certified copy of the minutes of the meeting at which such vote 
was taken. 
Each State may provide by law for the manner of 
delivery of such minutes, and for notification of the action thereon. 
ARTICLE 
VII. 
GENERAL POWERS. 
For the effectuation of its authorized purposes, the Authority is 
hereby granted the following powei's: 
a. To have perpetual succession. 
b. To adopt and use an official seal. 
c. To elect a chairman and a vice-chairman from among the Com-
missioners. The chairman and vice-chairman shall be elected from 
different States, and shall each hold office for two years. The chair-
manship and vice-chairmanship shall be alternated between the two 
States. 
d. To adopt by-laws to govern the conduct of its affairs by the 
Board of Commissioners, and it may adopt rules and regulations 
and may make appropriate orders to carry out and discharge its 
powers, duties and functions, but no by-law, or rule, regulation or 
order shall take effect until it has been filed with the Secretary of 
State of each State or in such other manner in each State as may 
be provided by the law thereof. 
In the establishment of rules, 
reflations and orders respecting the use of any crossing, transpor-
tation or terminal facility owned or operated by the Authority, 
including approach roads, it shall consult with appropriate officials 
of both States in order to insure, as far as possible, uniformity of 
such rules, regulations and orders with the law of both States. 
e. To appoint, or employ, such other officers, agents, attorneys, 
engineers and employees as it may require for the performance of 
its duties and to fix and determine their qualifications, duties, com-
pensation, pensions, terms of office and all other conditions and 
terms of employment and retention. 
f. To enter into contracts and agreements with either State or 
with the United States, or with any public body, department, or ^ 
other agency of either State or of the United States or with any 
individual, firm or corporation, deemed necessary or advisable for 
the exercise of its purposes and powers. 
g. To accept from any government or governmental department, 
agency or other public or private body, or from any other source, 
grants or contributions of money or property as well as loans, 
advances, guarantees, or other forms of financial assistance which 
it may use for or in aid of any of its purposes. 
h. To acquire (by gift, purchase or condemnation), own, hire, 
lease, use, operate and dispose of property, whether real, personal 
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or mixed', or of any interest therein, including any rights, fran-
chise and property for any crossing, facility or other project owned 
by another, and which the Authority is authorized to own and 
operate. 
i. To designate as express highways, and control public and pri-
vate access thereto, all or any approaches to any crossing or other 
facility of the Authority for the purpose of connecting the same 
with any highway or other route in either State. 
j . To borrow money and to evidence such loans by bonds, notes 
or other obligations, either secured or unsecured, and either in 
registered or unregistered form, and to fund or refund such evi-
dences of indebtedness, which may be executed with facsimile sig-
natures of such persons as may be designated by the Authority and 
by a facsimile of its corporate seal. 
k. To procure and keep in force adequate insurance or otherwise 
provide for the adequate protection of its property, as well as to 
indemnify it or its officers, agents or employees against loss or 
liability with respect to any risk to which it or they may be exposed 
in carrying out any function hereunder. 
1. To grant the use of, by franchise, lease or otherwise, and to 
make charges for the use of, any crossing, facility or other project 
or property owned or controlled by it. 
m. To exercise the right of eminent domain to acquire any prop-
erty or interest therein. 
n. To determine the exact location, system and character of and 
all other matters in connection with any and all crossings, transpor-
tation or terminal facilities or other projects which it may be author-
ized to own, construct, establish, effectuate, operate or control. 
o. To exercise all other powers not inconsistent with the Constitu-
tions of the two States or of the United States, which may be rea-
sonably necessary or incidental to the effectuation of its authorized 
purposes or to the exercise of any of the foregoing powers, except 
the power to levy taxes or assessments, and generally to exercise in 
connection with its property and affairs, and in connection with 
property within its control, any and all powers which might be 
exercised by a natural person or a private corporation in connection 
with similar property and affairs. 
ARTICLE V I I I . 
ADDITIONAL POWERS. 
For the purpose of effectuating the authorized purposes of the 
Authority, additional powers may be granted to the Authority by 
legislation of either State without the concurrence of the other, and 
may be exercised within such State, or may be granted to the Au-
thority by Congress and exercised by it; but no additional duties or 
obligations shall be undertaken by the Authority under the law of 
either State or of Congress without authorization by the law of 
both States. 
ARTICLE 
IX. 
EMINENT DOMAIN. 
If the Authority shall find and determine that any property or 
interest therein is required for a public use because in furtherance 
of the purposes of the Authority, said determination shall not be 
affected by the fact that such property has theretofore been taken 
over or is then devoted to a public use, but the public use in the hands 
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or under the control of the Authority, shall be deemed superior to 
the public use for which it has theretofore been taken or to which it 
is then devoted. 
In any condemnation proceedings in connection with the acquisi-
tion by the Authority of property or property rights of any char-
acter in either State and the right of inspection and immediate entry 
' thereon, through the exercise by it of its power of eminent domain, 
any existing or future law or rule of court of the State in which 
such property is located with respect to the condemnation of prop-' 
erty for the construction, reconstruction and maintenance of high-
ways therein, shall control. The Authority shall have the same 
power and authority with respect thereto as the State agency named 
in any such law; provided that nothing herein contained shall be 
construed as requiring joint or concurrent action by the two States 
with respect to the enactment, repeal or amendment of any law or 
rule of court on the subject of condemnation under which the 
Authority may proceed by virtue of this Article. 
If the established grade of any street, avenue, highway or other 
route shall be changed by reason of the construction by the Author-
ity of any work so as to cause loss or injury to any property abutting 
on such street, avenue, highway or other route, the Authority may 
enter into voluntary agreements with such abutting property 
owners and pay reasonable compensation for any loss or injury so 
sustained, whether or not it be compensable as damages under the 
condemnation law of the State. 
The power of the Authority to acquire property by condemnation 
shall be a continuing power, and no exercise thereof shall be deemed 
to exhaust it. 
ARTICLE X. 
REVENUES AND APPLICATION. 
The Authority is hereby authorized to establish, levy and col-
lect such tolls and other charges as it may deem necessary, proper 
or desirable, in connection with any crossing, transportation or ter-
minal facility or other project which it is or may be authorized at 
any time to construct, own, operate or control, and the aggregate 
of said tolls and charges shall be at least sufficient (1) to meet the 
combined expenses oi operation, maintenance and improvement 
thereof (2) to pay the cost of acquisition or construction, including 
the payment, amortization and retirement of bonds or other secu-
rities or obligations assumed, issued or incurred by the Authority, 
together with interest thereon and (3) to provide reserves for such 
, purposes; and the Authority is hereby authorized and empowered, 
subject to prior pledges, if any, to pledge such tolls and other reve-
nues or any part thereof as security for the repayment with interest 
of any moneys borrowed by it or advanced to it for its authorized 
purposes and as security for the satisfaction of any other obligations 
assumed by it in connection with such loans or advances. There 
shall be allocated to the cost of the acquisition, construction, opera-
tion, maintenance and improvement of such facilities and projects, 
such proportion of the general expenses of the Authority as it shall' 
deem properly chargeable thereto. 
ARTICLE 
XI. 
COVENANT W I T H 
BONDHOLDERS. 
The two said States covenant and agree with each other and with 
the holders of any bonds or other securities or obligations of the 
Authority, assumed, issued or incurred by it and as security for 
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which there may be pledged the tolls and revenues .or any part 
thereof of any crossing, transportation or terminal facility or other 
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roject, that the two said States will not, so long as any of such 
onds or other obligations remain outstanding and unpaid, diminish 
or impair the power of the Authority to establish, levy and collect 
tolls and other charges in connection therewith, and that neither of 
the two said States will, so long as any of such bonds or other obli-
gations remain outstanding and unpaid, authorize any crossing of 
the Delaware River or Delaware Bay south of the line mentioned in 
Article IV (a) of this Compact, by any person or body other than 
the Authority; unless, in either case, adequate provision shall be 
made by law for the protection of those advancing money upon 
such obligations. 
ARTICLE 
X I I . 
SECURITIES LAW^EUL INVESTMENTS. 
The bonds or other securities or obligations which may be issued 
by the Authority pursuant to this Compact, or any amendments 
hereof or supplements hereto, are hereby declared to be negotiable 
instruments, and are hereby made securities in which, all State and 
municipal officers and bodies of each State, all banks, bankers, trust 
companies, savings banks, building and loan associations, saving 
and loan associations, investment companies and other persons 
carrying on a banking business, all insurance companies, insurance 
associations and other persons carrying on an insurance business, 
and all administrators, executors, guardians, trustees and other 
fiduciaries and all other persons whatsoever who are now or may 
hereafter be authorized to invest in bonds or other obligations of 
either State, may properly and legally invest any funds, including 
capital, belonging to them or within their control; and said obliga-
tions are hereby made securities which may properly and legally be 
deposited with and shall be received by any State or municipal 
officer or agency of either State for any purpose for which the 
deposit of bonds or other obligations of such State is now or may 
hereafter be authorized. 
ARTICLE X I I I . 
TAX STATUS. 
The powers and functions exercised by the Authority under tMs 
Compact and any amendments hereof or supplements hereto are 
and will be in all respects for the benefit of the people of the States 
of Delaware and New Jersey, the region and nation, for the increase 
of their commerce and prosperity and for the enhancement of their 
general welfare. To this end, the Authority shall be regarded as 
performing essential governmental functions in exercising such 
powers and functions and in carrying out the provisions of this Com-
pact and of any law relating thereto, and shall not be required to 
pay any taxes or assessments of any character, levied by either State 
or political subdivision thereof, upon any of the property used by 
it for such purposes, or any income or revenue therefrom, including 
any profit from a sale or exchange. The bonds or other securities 
or obligations issued by the Authority, their transfer and the inter-
est paid thereon or income therefrom, including any profit from a 
sale or exchange, shall at all times be free from taxation by either 
State or any subdivision thereof. 
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ARTICLE 
XIV. 
JURISDICTION; USE OF LANDS. 
Each of the two States hereby consents to the use and occupancy 
by the Authority of any lands and property of the Authority in 
such State for the construction, operation, maintenance or improve-
ment of any crossing, transportation or terminal facility or other 
project which it is or may be authorized at any time to construct, 
own or operate, including lands lying under water. 
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ARTICLE 
XV. 
REVIEW AND ENFORCEMENT OF RULES. 
Judicial proceedings to review any by-law, rule, regulation, order 
or other action of the Authority or to determine the meaning or 
^ -effect thereof, may be brought in such court of each State, and pur-
suant to such law or rules thereof, as a similar proceeding with 
respect to any agency of such State might be brought. 
Each State may provide by law what penalty or penalties shall 
be imposed for violation of any lawful rule, regulation or order of 
the Authority, and, by law or rule of court, for the manner of 
enforcing the same. 
ARTICLE 
XVI. 
NO P L E D G E OF CREDIT. 
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The Authority shall have no power to pledge the credit or to 
' create any debt or liability of the State of Delaware, of the State 
of New Jersey, or of any other agency or of any political subdivision 
of said States. 
ARTICLE XVII. 
LOCAL COOPERATION. 
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All municipalities, political subdivisions and every department, 
agency or public body of each of the States are hereby authorized 
and empowered to cooperate with, aid and assist the Authority in 
effectuating the provisions of this Compact and of any amendment 
hereof or supplement hereto. 
ARTICLE XVIII. 
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DEPOSITARIES. 
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All banks, bankers, trust companies, savings banks and other 
persons carrying on a banking business under the laws of either 
State are authorized to give security for the safekeeping and prompt 
payment of moneys of the Authority deposited by it with them, in 
such manner and form as may be required by and may be approved 
by the Authority, which security may consist of a good and si:tecient 
undertaking with such sureties as may be approved by the Author-
ity, or may consist of the deposit with the Authority or other deposi-
tary approved by the Authority as collateral of such securities as 
the Autliority may approve. 
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ARTICLE 
X I X . 
AGENCY POLICE. 
Members of the police force established by the Authority, regard-
less of their residence, shall have in each State, on the crossings, 
transportation or terminal facilities and other projects and the 
approaches thereto, owned, operated or controlled by the Authority, 
and at such other places and under such circumstances as the law 
of each State may provide, all the powers of investigation, detention 
and arrest conferred by law on peace officers, sheriffs or constables 
in such State or usually exercised by such officers in each State. 
ARTICLE 
XX. 
REPORTS AND AUDITS. 
The Authority shall make annual reports to the Governors and 
Legislatures of the State of Delaware and the State of New Jersey, 
setting forth in detail its operations and transactions, and may 
make such additional reports from time to time to the Governors 
and Legislatures as it may deem desirable. 
It shall, at least annually, cause an independent audit of its 
fiscal affairs to be made and shall furnish a copy of such audit 
report together with such additional information or data with 
respect to its affairs as it may deem desirable to the Governors and 
Legislatures of each State. 
It shall furnish such information or data with respect to its affairs 
as may be requested by the Governors or Legislatures of each State. 
ARTICLE X X L 
BOUNDARIES 
UNAFFECTED. 
The existing territorial or boundary lines of the States, or the 
jurisdiction of the two States established by said boundary lines, 
shall not be changed hereby. 
Now, therefore, be it 
Resolved hy the Senate and House of Representatives of the United 
[States of America in Congress assembled, That the consent of Congress 
is hereby given to the States of Delaware and New Jersey to enter 
into the Compact set forth in this resolution, except that nothing 
contained in such compact shall be construed as impairing or in any 
manner affecting any right or jurisdiction of the United States in and 
over the area which forms the subject of such compact. 
SEC. 2. In addition to any other requirement of law, any project 
constructed by the Delaware River and Bay Authority in or over the 
navigable waters of the United States shall be subject to the proce-
dural requirements of section 2(a) of the Fish and Wildlife Coordi-
72 Stat. 564. 
natiou Act, as amended (48 Stat. 401; 16 U.S.C. 662(a)). 
SEC. 8. Nothing in this resolution shall be construed as— 
(a) amending or superseding the provisions of the Act of 
September 27, 1961 (75 Stat. 688), or 
(b) granting the consent of Congress to the use of tolls col-
lected on any crossing for the financing of any transportation or 
terminal facility constructed or operated by the Authority, or 
(c) granting advance consent of Congress for the performance 
by the Authority of other functions, as contemplated by Article 
IV, paragraph (c) of the Compact or for the assumption by the 
Authority of additional powers, as contemplated by Article VIII 
of the Compact. 
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SEC. 4. The right is hereby reserved to the Congress or any of its 
standing committees to require of the Authority the disclosure and 
furnishing of such information and data as is deeraed aj)propriate by 
the Congress or any committee thereof having jurisdiction of the 
subject matter of this resohition. 
SEC. 5. The right to alter, amend, or repeal this joint resolution is 
liereby expressly reserved. 
Approved September 20, 1962. 
Public Law 87-679 
JOINT RESOLUTION 
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September 20, 1962 
Providing for the designation of tlie period October 1962 tlirougli October 1963 [S. J. Res. 222] 
as "National Safety Council Fiftieth Anniversary Year". 
Whereas October 1962 marks the beginning of the fiftieth anniversary 
observance of the founding of the National Safety Council; and 
Whereas the council has striven faithfully during this half century to 
develop and implement sound, effective programs directed toward 
the prevention of accidents of all kinds; and 
Whereas the prevention of accidents is of the greatest importance to 
the success of our economy and the well-being of our Nation; and 
Whereas the records have shown a notable and steady decline in the 
i-ates of accidental death and injury as a result of national programs 
of the organized safety movement; and 
Whereas this decline in accident rates demonstrates the value of na-
tionwide safety activities as carried on under the leadership of the 
National Safety Council; and 
Whereas the Congress enacted a Federal charter for the National 
Safety Council; and 
Whereas the National Safety Council, as a guardian of the public 
interest, has proved its dedication to the safety and welfare of the 
Nation's citizens, as set forth in its Federal charter: Therefore be it 
Resolved hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the United 
States of America in Congress assembled^ That the President is author-
ized and requested to issue a proclamation designating the period 
October 1962 through October 1963 as "National Safety Council 
Fiftieth Anniversary Year," and calling upon the governments of the 
States and communities and the people of the United States to join 
in observance of this significant occasion and to increase their eff6rts 
to reduce the number of accidents in homes, in industry, in public 
places, and on our streets and highw^ays. 
Approved September 20, 1962. 
National Safety 
Council Fiftieth 
Anniversary Year, 
1962-1963. 
Proclamation au-
thorization. 
Public Law 87-680 
AN ACT 
To amend the Cooperative Forest Management Act. 
Re It emicted hy the Senate and, House of Repvesentatives 
of the 
United States of Anieriea in Congress (issemhled. That the Coopera-
tive Forest Management Act (64 Stat. 478; 16 if.S.C. 568c, 568d) is 
imended by striking out of the first sentence of section 2 thereof 
'$2,500,000*' and inserting "$5,000,000". 
Approved September 25, 1962. 
September 25, 1963 
[H. R. 9728]