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A08560 Summary:

BILL NOA08560A
 
SAME ASSAME AS S08349-A
 
SPONSORKassay
 
COSPNSRStern, Griffin, Schiavoni, Ramos
 
MLTSPNSR
 
 
Directs the Department of Transportation to grant a permanent access and construction easement to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority for the use of a portion of DOT-owned land to support potential future rail yard development.
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A08560 Text:



 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                         8560--A
 
                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                   IN ASSEMBLY
 
                                      May 20, 2025
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by M. of A. KASSAY, STERN, GRIFFIN, SCHIAVONI, RAMOS -- read
          once and referred to the  Committee  on  Transportation  --  committee
          discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
          to said committee
 
        AN  ACT  in  relation  to  directing the Department of Transportation to
          grant a permanent access and construction easement to the Metropolitan
          Transportation Authority
 
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
 
     1    Section  1.  Short  title. This act shall be known and may be cited as
     2  the "Furthering Rail Transit in Suffolk County Act".
     3    § 2. Definitions. For the purposes of this act:
     4    (a) "DOT" means the New York State Department of Transportation.
     5    (b) "Greenway" means the real  property  in  Port  Jefferson  Station,
     6  Suffolk  County,  New  York  owned  by  the New York State Department of
     7  Transportation identified as State Route 5232-A a/k/a the  Setauket-Port
     8  Jefferson  Station  Greenway Multi-Use Path, which is bound on the north
     9  by  real  property  identified  on  the  Suffolk  County  Tax   Map   as
    10  0200-159.00-02.00-020.000  and bound on the south by real property iden-
    11  tified on the Suffolk County Tax Map as 0200-180.00-04.00-002.000.
    12    (c) "MTA" means the Metropolitan Transportation Authority.
    13    § 3. Easement to MTA. (a) The DOT is hereby authorized and directed to
    14  grant a permanent easement to the MTA permitting the MTA to  access  in,
    15  over, through and above, utilize, construct upon and operate, as needed,
    16  a  portion  of  DOT-owned  Greenway  to accommodate the potential future
    17  development of a railyard use traversing the Greenway in order to expand
    18  and improve public rail transit in Suffolk County, with  an  appropriate
    19  reversion  interest  to preserve the DOT's ability to construct New York
    20  State Route 25A, at its discretion.
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD13007-02-5

        A. 8560--A                          2
 
     1    (b) Not withstanding any other provision of law, the  Commissioner  of
     2  Transportation is authorized to transfer and convey said easement to the
     3  MTA, without appraisal, in consideration of one dollar.
     4    (c)  The DOT's grant of an easement over that portion of the Greenway,
     5  shall include language:
     6    (1) reserving to the DOT such rights as may be required in  the  event
     7  DOT  elects  to  have  a  bridge  constructed  over the current Greenway
     8  location in order to carry out the intended purpose for which the Green-
     9  way was initially acquired by DOT, namely the straightening of New  York
    10  State Route 25A;
    11    (2)  acknowledging  that  the  MTA  shall construct said bridge to DOT
    12  specifications;
    13    (3) acknowledging that the MTA's potential  future  development  of  a
    14  railyard  use  and  the DOT's potential future election to have a bridge
    15  constructed over the  current  Greenway  location  can  coexist  at  the
    16  current  Greenway  location  and requiring both parties to work coopera-
    17  tively in the planning and construction phases so that in the event both
    18  projects are undertaken, they will coexist harmoniously; and
    19    (4) acknowledging that the MTA shall reroute the  Greenway,  which  is
    20  presently being utilized as a pedestrian and bicycle path, to the parcel
    21  south of the current Greenway location.
    22    (d) The DOT is authorized and directed to work with the MTA to negoti-
    23  ate and execute the above-described easement within six months after the
    24  effective date of this act.
    25    §  4.  The  DOT may consult with any state or local office, agency, or
    26  department and request or receive information from any such entity  that
    27  is relevant and material to the completion of this directive to grant an
    28  easement to the MTA to accommodate the potential future development of a
    29  railyard  use  in  order  to  expand  and improve public rail transit in
    30  Suffolk County and preserving the DOT's ability to  construct  New  York
    31  State Route 25A at its discretion.
    32    § 5. This act shall take effect immediately.
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