N.Y. Transportation Law § 50: Statewide transportation planning

§ 50. Statewide transportation planning. Project coordination with

statewide transportation plan. Upon review of a proposed municipal

project submitted to the commissioner under section forty-nine herein,

the commissioner may transmit, within a reasonably prompt time, advisory

comments to the Utica transit authority with regard to such project's

being a part of or consistent with a statewide comprehensive master plan

for transportation promulgated by him and approved by the governor upon

the recommendation of the department of state or, in the absence of any

such statewide plan, any other recognized long-range regional

transportation plan approved by the commissioner or, in the absence of

any such regional plan, sound transportation development policy and

planning concept. If the commissioner finds such a project to be in

conflict with such statewide plan, regional plan or transportation

development policy and planning concept, the Utica transit authority

shall before undertaking such project, upon the request of the

commissioner, state in writing to the commissioner its reasons for

undertaking the project notwithstanding such conflict. In no event,

however, shall the Utica transit authority submit to the United States

or to the State of New York, or any agency or instrumentality of them,

an application for a federal or state project unless the application

shall have been first approved by the commissioner as being part of or

consistent with such statewide plan, regional plan or transportation

development policy and planning concept.