Bill Text: NY A10177 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Creates the Buffalo outer-harbor alliance task force to determine potential reuse, rehabilitation and/or conveyance of outer harbor land and buildings owned by the Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority with public input.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-2)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2012-06-18 - REFERRED TO RULES [A10177 Detail]
Download: New_York-2011-A10177-Amended.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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I N A S S E M B L Y
May 10, 2012
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Introduced by M. of A. KEARNS, GABRYSZAK, BURLING, FINCH, SCHIMMINGER,
ROBERTS -- read once and referred to the Committee on Governmental
Operations -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as
amended and recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to create the Buffalo outer-harbor alliance task force to deter-
mine potential reuse, rehabilitation and/or conveyance of outer harbor
land and buildings owned by the Niagara Frontier Transportation
Authority with public input; and providing for the repeal of such
provisions upon expiration thereof
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
1 Section 1. 1. Notwithstanding the provisions of any general, special
2 or local law to the contrary, the Niagara Frontier Transportation
3 Authority shall not sell, lease, or convey any real property at the
4 outer harbor in the city of Buffalo until 45 days after the issuance of
5 recommendations by the Buffalo outer-harbor alliance task force pursuant
6 to subdivision 5 of this section.
7 2. (a) There is hereby created a Buffalo outer-harbor alliance task
8 force. Such task force shall consist of thirteen members to be appointed
9 as follows: two shall be appointed by the governor; two shall be
10 appointed by the speaker of the assembly; two shall be appointed by the
11 temporary president of the senate; one shall be appointed by the minori-
12 ty leader of the assembly; one shall be appointed by the minority leader
13 of the senate; one shall be appointed by the mayor of the city of
14 Buffalo; one shall be appointed by the executive director of Niagara
15 Frontier Transportation Authority; one shall be appointed by the Buffalo
16 city council; one shall be appointed by the Erie county executive; and
17 one shall be appointed by the Erie county legislature. To the extent
18 practicable, members of the commission shall be residents of Erie county
19 and shall have expertise in environmental sciences, urban planning, land
20 use and redevelopment, smart growth or economic development. All members
21 of the task force shall be appointed within 30 days of the effective
22 date of this act. The chair of the task force shall be designated by the
23 governor from the members appointed. Eight members of the task force
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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1 shall constitute a quorum for the purposes of organizing the task force
2 and conducting the business of the task force. The task force shall meet
3 not less than once a month until a recommendation is submitted in
4 accordance with subdivision four of this section.
5 (b) Members of the Buffalo outer-harbor alliance task force shall
6 receive no compensation for their services, but shall be allowed their
7 actual and necessary expenses incurred in the performance of their
8 duties pursuant to this section.
9 3. (a) Such task force shall evaluate and report on the potential
10 reuse, redevelopment or conveyance of the outer harbor land and build-
11 ings owned by the Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority in the city
12 of Buffalo.
13 (b) Such task force may request, and is authorized to receive, any
14 information from any state agency or authority that is relevant to the
15 completion of such task force's duties. Such information received by
16 such task force shall be subject to the same requirements for confiden-
17 tiality and limitations on use, if any, as are applicable to such state
18 agency's use of such information.
19 4. After the appointment of the members of the task force, the task
20 force shall hold at least three public hearings, including one held at
21 night, in the areas affected by the potential reuse of the outer harbor.
22 Public notice of all such hearings shall be widely published in advance
23 by the task force through all available means including electronic
24 media. The task force shall consider the comments made at such hearings
25 when developing their final report.
26 5. The task force shall submit to the governor, the temporary presi-
27 dent of the senate, and the speaker of the assembly on or before June
28 30, 2013 a detailed recommendation for the reuse, redevelopment or
29 conveyance of designated available outer harbor land and buildings owned
30 by the Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority that are consistent
31 with applicable state and local laws and, to the extent possible, with
32 the city of Buffalo local waterfront revitalization plan. Such final
33 report shall include, but not be limited to, the environmental impact on
34 the outer harbor land owned by the Niagara Frontier Transportation
35 Authority and the surrounding areas and any zoning changes necessary to
36 reuse or redevelop such land.
37 S 2. This act shall take effect immediately and shall expire and be
38 deemed repealed on December 31, 2013.
