2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 8 - Miscellaneous Authorities › Title 9 - New York State Energy Research and Development Authority › 1867 - Annual Reports.

§  1867.  Annual  reports.  1. For the purpose of furnishing the state
with systematic information regarding the status and the  activities  of
the  authority, the authority shall submit to the governor, the chairman
of the senate finance committee, the chairman of the assembly  ways  and
means  committee and the state comptroller, within ninety days after the
end of its fiscal year, a complete and detailed  report  setting  forth:
(1)   its   operations   and   accomplishments;  (2)  its  receipts  and
disbursements, or revenues and expenses,  during  such  fiscal  year  in
accordance  with  the  categories  or classifications established by the
comptroller and including but not limited to a  breakdown  of  operating
expenditures  and revenues by facility, by maintenance and by personnel;
a breakdown of  capital  expenditures,  including  an  analysis  of  all
projects  begun,  completed  or  in progress in that fiscal year; (3) an
explanation of depreciation, policies, reserve  funds  and  investments;
(4)  its assets and liabilities at the end of such fiscal year including
the  status  of  reserve,  depreciation,  special  or  other  funds  and
including  the receipts to and payments from these funds, and the status
of funds received from federal and state governments; and (5) a schedule
of its bonds and notes outstanding  at  the  end  of  its  fiscal  year,
together  with  a  statement of the amounts redeemed and incurred during
such fiscal year.
2. The authority, so long as it is not subject to  the  civil  service
law, shall within ninety days after the end of its fiscal year submit to
the  governor,  the  chairman  of  the  senate finance committee and the
chairman of the assembly ways  and  means  committee  a  report  on  its
personnel  policies and practices with regard to recruitment, selection,
promotion, classification, compensation, transfer, separation,  employee
relations and services and equal opportunity programs.
3.  The  comptroller  shall  be  charged  with seeing that the reports
mandated in subdivision  one  are  filed  on  time  and  that  they  are
sufficiently   comprehensive.   The   comptroller   shall   report   any
deficiencies to the governor and to the legislative  chairmen  named  in
subdivision two of this section.
4.  The  authority  shall  submit  annually  to  the governor, for his
approval, and to the budget director, the state comptroller and the head
of any executive agency having energy related responsibilities, chairman
of the senate finance committee, and chairman of the assembly  ways  and
means  committee,  its  proposed  operating  budget for the next ensuing
fiscal year and the operating budget for the present fiscal year.
5. The budget shall be submitted in a form and on the  date  specified
by  the  budget  director, including, but not limited to, information on
rates, contracts, revenue and sources of revenue.
6. The comptroller shall each year certify to the budget director, the
governor and the legislative chairmen named in subdivision two  of  this
section  specific  amounts  for  which the authority is obligated to the
state.
7. (a) The authority shall submit to the governor, the  chair  of  the
senate  finance  committee, and the chair of the assembly ways and means
committee, and publish on the authority's public website  a  semi-annual
report  for the time period ending March thirty-first no later than June
first and for the time period ending September thirtieth no  later  than
December first of each year detailing the authority's activities for the
previous six month reporting period.
(b)  The semi-annual report required pursuant to paragraph (a) of this
subdivision shall include  information  with  respect  to  all  proceeds
collected  and administered by the authority pursuant to an order of the
public  service  commission,   including   assessments,   fees,   taxes,
transfers, corporate income or surcharges imposed on energy consumers or

power  generators.  The  semi-annual report shall include, at a minimum,
the following:
1. total revenues collected by the authority in the reporting period;
2.  a  list of requests for proposals, program opportunity notices, or
similar solicitations, that have been issued in the reporting period;
3. a description of the criteria and standards utilized for awarding a
request  for  proposal,  a  program  opportunity  notice,   or   similar
solicitation;
4.  a  regional  report  on  all  projects selected for funding by the
authority during the reporting period, including the county and  utility
service  territory  in which the project is located, and the total value
of these projects statewide and by region;
5. all disbursements or expenditures of revenues pursuant to a request
for proposal, a program opportunity notice, or similar solicitation; and
6. a list of all contracts executed and completed during the reporting
period including a description of each project.
(c) The president and chief executive officer of the  authority  shall
provide  notice  to  the  director  of  the  division of the budget, the
chairman of the  senate  finance  committee  and  the  chairman  of  the
assembly  ways and means committee of any report that is more than sixty
days delinquent. Should the authority be delinquent  in  submitting  its
report  by  more  than  one hundred eighty days, the president and chief
executive officer shall  provide  notice  of  such  delinquency  to  the
director  of  the  division  of  the  budget, the chairman of the senate
finance  committee,  the  chairman  of  the  assembly  ways  and   means
committee, and the state comptroller.
(d)  Reporting  requirements.  The information for the report required
under this subdivision shall be current to  within  sixty  days  of  the
actual release of the report.