N.Y. Transportation Law § 14-a: Preservation of agricultural lands, public park and recreational lands, wildlife and waterfowl refuges and historical sites

§ 14-a. Preservation of agricultural lands, public park and

recreational lands, wildlife and waterfowl refuges and historical sites.

The commissioner of transportation shall cooperate and consult with the

commissioners of agriculture and markets, parks and recreation,

environmental conservation and health in developing transportation plans

and programs so that such programs include measures to maintain or

enhance the desirable natural characteristics of the land traversed.

Such cooperation and consultation shall be effected and implemented by

memoranda of understanding which shall be entered into between the

commissioner of transportation and each of such commissioners. Such

memoranda of understanding shall provide for review of proposed

transportation projects by such commissioners at all stages of progress,

including preliminary and final planning and during construction, and

for the cooperation by the department of transportation necessary to

facilitate such review. Such memoranda of understanding shall also

provide that the commissioner of transportation shall implement any

suggestion or recommendation made by any of such commissioners which he

deems feasible in connection with the preservation of agricultural

lands, lands of public parks and recreational areas, wildlife and

waterfowl refuges and historical sites.