Mr. Maisano argued for more study of the project.
To emphasize that decision, the board of New Jersey Transit voted to spend $4.9 million on an environmental impact study of the project.
But on Wednesday, Mr. Cuomo and Thomas Madison, executive director of the State Thruway Authority, endorsed further study of the project.
Mr. McPartland said he supported the extension along the freeway and was set to introduce a proposal to finance a new study of the project.
In 2012, a year after work started, Addis Ababa tasked an international panel of experts (from Ethiopia, Egypt and Sudan among others) with a study of the project's human and economic impact.
One memorandum on a $1 billion plan to expand locks on the Mississippi and Illinois Rivers said that a preliminary study of the project was "wrong" and that the work should not be extended to 2025.
A case study of the projects was conducted in a Norwegian construction company.
NSF finalized its environmental study of the project on 1 July, finding it would have "no significant impact".
Research Project I covers the literature review for the selected title which is related with chemical and process engineering, the initial preparation and study of the project and report writing for the project task.
One problem, the Natural Resources Defense Council's Anthony Swift pointed out, is that the State Department may have based its decision on an outdated study of the project.
