N.Y. Public Authorities Law § 1299-jj: Co-operation and assistance of other agencies

§ 1299-jj. Co-operation and assistance of other agencies. In the

interest of economy and to promote coordination of authority projects

with state, local, county and regional plans and also to carry out the

objective of full participation of all agencies in the development of a

transportation system and facilities to meet the objectives of this act,

the authority shall request and use existing studies, master plans,

surveys, data and other materials completed by or under development by

any state agency or any municipality or political subdivision of the

state. The authority shall consult with and cooperate with the

commissioner of transportation and with planning authorities in the

areas of its operations and shall utilize local or state planning. When

a project is contemplated by the authority, the authority shall submit a

preliminary prospectus thereof to the commissioner of transportation for

review and comment and shall consider the report of the commissioner in

formulating detailed plans for such project. When a project is

contemplated by the authority within the jurisdiction of any county

planning board or the Genesee-Finger Lakes Regional Planning Board, the

authority shall prepare a preliminary prospectus thereof, describing the

purpose, general location, and nature of the project contemplated, with

such further data relative thereto that the authority shall consider

pertinent. Within sixty days of receipt of such prospectus such planning

board or boards shall prepare a report thereon, commenting on its

conformity or lack of conformity with any related official plan of the

state or region or any official planning agency within the region. Such

report shall be considered by the authority in formulating detailed

plans for such a project. At the request of the authority, each such

agency, municipality or subdivision which is engaged in highway or other

transportation activities or in land use or development planning, or

which is charged with the duty of providing or regulating any

transportation facility or any other public facility, is further

authorized to provide the authority with information regarding its plans

and programs affecting the transportation district so that the authority

may have available to it current information with respect thereto. The

officers and personnel of such agencies, municipalities or subdivisions,

and of any other government or agency whatever, may serve at the request

of the authority upon such advisory committees as the authority shall

determine to create and such officers and personnel may serve upon such

committees without forfeiture of office or employment and with no loss

or diminution in the compensation, status, rights and privileges which

they otherwise enjoy.