N.Y. Public Authorities Law § 1334: Cooperation and assistance of other agencies

§ 1334. Cooperation 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 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 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 central New York

regional planning and development board, the authority shall prepare and

submit to such planning board or boards 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.