N.Y. Economic Development Law § 223: Reporting

* § 223. Reporting. The department shall:

1. Monitor the performance of each export trade development project

and require periodic and annual reports from each such project at such

time and in such manner as prescribed by the commissioner;

2. Evaluate the effectiveness of the export trade development projects

and other technical assistance programs authorized under this article

and shall report, on or before October first, nineteen hundred

eighty-eight and on or before October first of each year thereafter, the

results of such evaluation to the governor and the legislature. In the

case of export assistance programs involving the direct delivery of

assistance and services by the department, such report shall detail the

number of business firms served by the department, the number of trade

and investment inquiries referred by the department to business firms

and other interested parties, the approximate dollar amount of export

sales and investment of foreign capital in New York generated by the

activities of the department, and any other information the commissioner

deems pertinent to evaluating the effectiveness of such programs. In the

case of export trade development projects, such report shall include a

description of each project, its potential application to other areas of

the state, the success of each project in meeting its stated goals and

objectives, the economic impact of each project on the area served, the

degree of local and regional participation, financial and otherwise, in

each project, the coordination of each project with state and local

export promotion programs and resources and such other information the

commissioner deems pertinent to evaluating the effectiveness of the

export assistance development project program; and

3. (a) Submit to the director of the division of the budget, the

chairperson of the senate finance committee and the chairperson of the

assembly ways and means committee an evaluation of program effectiveness

prepared by an entity independent of the department. Such an evaluation

shall be submitted on or before September first, two thousand five and

on or before September first every four years thereafter.

(b) Between evaluation due dates, the department shall maintain the

necessary records and data required to satisfy such evaluation

requirements and to satisfy information requests received from the

director of the budget, the chairperson of the senate finance committee

and the chairperson of the assembly ways and means committee between

such evaluation due dates.

* NB Amendments effective insofar as they pertain to the Port

Authority of New York and New Jersey upon passage of same as legislation

by New Jersey