N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law § 36-0111: Flood hazard evaluation of state facilities, lands and programs

§ 36-0111. Flood hazard evaluation of state facilities, lands and

programs.

1. State agencies shall take affirmative action to minimize flood

hazards and losses in connection with state-owned and state-financed

buildings, roads and other facilities, the disposition of state land and

properties, the administration of state and state-assisted planning

programs, and the preparation and administration of state building,

sanitary and other pertinent codes. Such action shall include, but not

be limited to, requirements for the evaluation and reduction of flood

hazards in the siting, planning, construction and maintenance of such

facilities and the administration of such programs; needed and

economically feasible flood-proofing and other protective measures of

existing state facilities; and appropriate flood hazard restrictions

binding upon purchasers and persons acquiring state lands and

properties, or interests therein, and their successors.

2. The commissioner shall assist state agencies in determining and

evaluating flood hazards and alternative protective measures, and shall

promulgate regulations, in consultation with the director of the budget,

to govern the review by the commissioner of potential flood hazards at

proposed construction sites of state, and state-financed facilities.

Such regulations shall ensure that reviews thereunder shall be

coordinated with those of appropriate environmental impact statements,

project notification and review systems, and state capital construction

funding requests.

3. The department, pursuant to designation by the governor, shall act

as the state coordinating agency for the national flood insurance

program in order to assist in its review of state agency activities and

to serve as a resource for local governments.