New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 9 - EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT › Subtitle A - Governor's Office › Chapter I - Executive Orders › Part 3 - Executive Orders (Hugh L. Carey) › Section 3.92 - Executive Order No. 92: Establishing the New York State Office of Development Planning

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28, July 10, 2024
I, Hugh L. Carey, by virtue of the authority vested in me
					 by the Constitution and the laws of the State of New York, and as Governor of
					 the State of New York, by Executive Order do hereby establish in the Executive
					 Department, Office of the Governor, an Office to be known as the New York State
					 Office of Development Planning to coordinate planning and development
					 activities of State agencies, and to insure greater consistency between and
					 among functional development planning efforts and Administration policy.
General Powers and Duties
It is the policy of the State in meeting public needs to
					 establish coordinated and consistent planning and development programs,
					 policies and priorities to achieve sound and balanced growth and development,
					 the effective and efficient use of the State's resources and a strengthened
					 State economy.
To assist in carrying out the foregoing policy, the New
					 York State Office of Development Planning shall:
- Identify and analyze for the Governor the major
					 development factors affecting the State's future.
- Assist in the formulation of coordinated State policies,
					 plans and programs addressing these major factors, as they affect the State's
					 development.
- Undertake, as the Governor may direct, any studies,
					 research, inquiries or analyses necessary for the development, coordination or
					 implementation of State policies, plans and programs.
- Promote the efficient utilization of the State's
					 resources, through coordination of State agency plans/and programs, and the
					 direction of interagency planning and development.
- Support coordination of the sub-cabinet structure with
					 agency policy planning functions.
- Coordinate State policies related to Federal and
					 interstate/multistate planning and development issues, intitiatives,
					 legislation and organizations.
- Review and undertake policy analysis of federal
					 legislation related to the development potential of the State.
- Act as the State's economic development planning agency
					 pursuant to Public Law 89-136 (Public Works and Economic Development Act of
					 1965), together with any act or acts amendatory or supplemental thereto, and
					 any regulations promulgated thereunder, and to do all things necessary or
					 convenient to fulfill the purposes and requirements of such act or acts
					 including receiving and disbursing funds made available under such act or
					 acts.
- Participate in other federal planning programs, as the
					 Governor may direct.
Amendment of Prior Order, Effective Date and
					 Transfer Provisions
Executive Order Number 73, dated July 12, 1978
					 reestablishing the New York State Economic Development Board and transferring
					 certain functions, powers, duties and obligations formerly possessed by such
					 Board to the New York State Department of Commerce is hereby amended; and,
					 effective immediately, all of the functions, powers, duties and obligations
					 transferred to the New York State Department of Commerce by such Executive
					 Order relating to the duties of the New York State Department of Commerce to
					 oversee and coordinate economic development planning activities in the State
					 and to act as the State's economic development planning agency pursuant to
					 Public Law 89-136 (Public Works and Economic Development Act of 1965, as
					 amended), and all duties incidental thereto, shall be transferred and assigned
					 to, assumed and devolved upon the New York State Office of Development
					 Planning; and all of the rights and obligations of the New York State
					 Department of Commerce under any contract or agreement relating to such
					 functions, powers, duties and obligations to which the New York State
					 Department of Commerce is a party, are hereby transferred, and assigned to,
					 devolved upon and assumed by the New York State Office of Development
					 Planning.
With respect to the functions, powers, duties and
					 obligations so transferred and assumed, the New York State Office of
					 Development Planning shall be deemed and be held to constitute the continuation
					 of the New York State Department of Commerce for those purposes and not a
					 different board, agency or authority. Any proceeding or other business or
					 matter heretofore undertaken or commenced by or before the New York State
					 Department of Commerce relative to the functions, powers, duties and
					 obligations herein transferred to and assumed by the New York State Office of
					 Development Planning may be conducted and completed by the New York State
					 Office of Development Planning in the same manner and under the same conditions
					 and with the same effect as if conducted and completed by the New York State
					 Department of Commerce.
All Federal funds available to the New York State
					 Department of Commerce for the performance of the functions, powers, duties and
					 obligations transferred and assigned to the New York State Office of
					 Development Planning pursuant to this Executive Order, to the extent remaining
					 unexpended or unencumbered, shall be transferred to and made available for use
					 by the New York State Office of Development Planning for the same purposes for
					 which originally provided.
Signed: Hugh L. Carey
Dated: August 21, 1979