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The '''Niagara Falls Bridge Commission''' is an international public agency which administers three international bridges across the Niagara River connecting the province of Ontario, Canada, and the state of New York, United States: the Lewiston–Queenston Bridge, Whirlpool Rapids Bridge and Rainbow Bridge. The NFBC is incorporated as a class D New York State public benefit corporation and is licensed to operate in Ontario under the Extra-Provincial Corporations Act. The commission is based in Lewiston, New York, and maintains a post office box address in Niagara Falls, Ontario. It is mostly self-supporting from tolls, leases, and commercial concessions.<ref name="clui">{{Cite web |url=http://www.clui.org/section/united-divide-a-linear-portrait-usacanada-border-3 |title=Chapter 4: The Watery Boundary |website=United Divide: A Linear Portrait of the USA/Canada Border |publisher=The Center for Land Use Interpretation |publication-date=Winter 2015}}</ref>
==History== The commission was established in 1938 in response the collapse of the Honeymoon Bridge.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Best |first=John Charles |title=Thomas Baker McQuesten: Public Works, Politics, and Imagination |date=1991 |publisher=Corinth Press |isbn=978-0-9695613-0-9 |page=150| language=en}}</ref>
==Board of Commissioners== Canada and the U.S. are equally represented through the bi-national appointment of an eight-member Board of Commissioners; four appointed by the Premier of Ontario and four by the Governor of New York.<ref>{{cite web|title=What is the NFBC?|url=http://www.niagarafallsbridges.com/index.php/bridge-info/what-is-the-nfbc|website=Niagara Falls Bridge Commission|accessdate=November 4, 2017}}</ref>
{| class="wikitable" |- |colspan="4" style="text-align: center; background:Gainsboro" |Board of Commissioners |- style="background:LightSteelBlue; text-align:center;" ! {{flag|Canada}} ! {{flag|United States}} |- |Lindsay DiCosimo Merani, ''Chairperson'' |Francis A. Soda, ''Vice'' ''Chairperson'' |- |April Jeffs |Kathleen L. Neville |- |Ziad Hajifazul |Harry R. Palladino |- |Bradley Sutherland |''Vacant'' |}
===2006 Racketeering trial=== In 2006, commissioner Joel Cicero pleaded guilty to racketeering for using his official position to extort jobs for the LIUNA labor union.<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/02/nyregion/02union.html | title=Union Leaders on Trial for Racketeering and Extortion Plead Guilty | work=The New York Times | date=2 August 2006 | last1=Staba | first1=David }}</ref>
==See also== * Buffalo and Fort Erie Public Bridge Authority - public, Peace Bridge * International Bridge Company - private, Ambassador Bridge * Ogdensburg Bridge and Port Authority - public * Port Authority of New York and New Jersey - public * Sault Ste. Marie Bridge Company - private, railway bridge * Thousand Islands Bridge Authority - public, Thousand Islands Bridge * Windsor-Detroit Bridge Authority - public, Gordie Howe International Bridge
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==External links== *{{official|http://www.niagarafallsbridges.com/}}
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