36 Pa. Stat. § 3510.1
The Delaware River Port Authority (hereinafter sometimes called the "authority"), after investigation and study, having concluded plans with estimates of costs and means of financing for new projects for the improvement and development of the port district for the port purposes consisting of terminals and terminal facilities, one in the vicinity of Highland avenue and the Delaware river, in the city of Chester, Pennsylvania, comprising approximately 90 acres, and the other in the vicinity of Beckett street and the Delaware river, in the city of Camden, county of Camden, New Jersey, comprising approximately 39 acres, together with such nearby real estate, not to exceed 200 acres at each of the said locations, as may be deemed necessary or desirable; and the authority having made to the Legislature of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and to the Legislature of the State of New Jersey a report dealing only with said projects, and having requested of said Legislatures authority to proceed with the projects described in the report, all pursuant to, in accordance with and as provided in the compact or agreement between the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and State of New Jersey hereinafter mentioned, the authority is hereby authorized and empowered to finance, construct or rent, acquire by purchase or condemnation, operate, maintain, lease, own and otherwise deal with such terminals and terminal facilities and to proceed with the said projects outlined in said detailed report. The authority, in addition to other public purposes now or hereafter provided for it and other powers and duties now or hereafter conferred upon it and not in limitation thereof, and notwithstanding the provisions of any act shall have among its authorized purposes the financing, construction, erection, acquisition, maintenance, leasing and ownership of such terminals and terminal facilities, all pursuant to, in accordance with and as provided in this act and the agreement or compact as heretofore or hereafter amended or supplemented (herein sometimes called the "compact") between the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and State of New Jersey, creating the Delaware River Port Authority as a body corporate and politic, and defining its powers and duties, which said compact as amended or supplemented to January 15, 1965, is duly authorized by the acts of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, approved June 12, 1931, Act No. 200, Pamphlet Laws 575; July 18, 1951, Act No. 214, Pamphlet Laws 1010; August 10, 1951, Act No. 274, Pamphlet Laws 1206; Act No. 69, Pamphlet Laws 102, June 11, 1963; and by the laws of the State of New Jersey, approved June 30, 1931, chapter 391, Public Laws 1931; June 26, 1951, chapter 287, Public Laws 1951; June 26, 1951, chapter 288, Public Laws 1951; chapter 92, Public Laws and has been duly consented to by the Congress of the United States by Public Resolution No. 26, Seventy-Second Congress (S.J. Resolution 41) approved June 14, 1932, Public Law 573, chapter 921; Eighty-Second Congress, Second Session, approved July 17, 1952, Public Law 574, chapter 922; Eighty-Second Congress, Second Session, approved July 17, 1952; Eighty-Eighth Congress, approved June 13, 1964, Public Law 320 (Resolution 7332).
36 P.S. § 3510.1