N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law § 15-2107: General duties

§ 15-2107. General duties.

1. Upon its organization the board may prepare a plan for the

regulation of the flow of the river or rivers in its district. Such plan

shall show the available and feasibile reservoir sites on such river or

rivers, whether any reservoir now existing can be and should be enlarged

and to what extent, the approximate number of acres of land flowed or to

be flowed by each reservoir, whether any of such land is owned by the

state and if any, how many acres, the number of acres of private land

required, together with the estimated value of the land, and how many

acres, if any, of such land are lands of the state within the forest

preserve. Such acreage shall include such quantity of land surrounding

the reservoir to be created or enlarged as would in the judgment of the

board be required for the protection, maintenance and operation of such

reservoir. The plan shall be accompanied by such maps, profiles and

other data and descriptions as may be necessary to set forth properly

the location and character of the work and of the property to be taken

or damaged, and by estimates of cost of each such reservoir. In case

maps, plans and specifications for any such reservoir at or near the

site thereof, are on file in the office of the department, and in case

any records in any other department of the state government would be an

aid in the preparation of such plans, these shall be available to the

board for such purpose.

2. Upon the completion of such plan if the board approves of such plan

it shall certify it to the department for its approval, and the

department within forty days thereafter may approve the same, or modify

it and approve it as so modified. As so approved by the department it

shall be known as the "official plan" for the regulation of the flow of

the river or rivers of the district. Copies thereof shall be filed in

the offices of the board, the department, and of the county clerk of

each county wholly or partly within the district. Such plan in like

manner may be altered from time to time provided such alteration shall

not affect any assessment already made.