New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 9 - EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT › Subtitle A - Governor's Office › Chapter I - Executive Orders › Part 1 - Executive Orders (Nelson A. Rockefeller) › Section 1.44 - Executive Order No. 44: Establishment of State comprehensive planning and development regions

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28, July 10, 2024
I, Nelson A. Rockefeller, Governor of the State of New
					 York, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and Laws of
					 the State of New York, do hereby issue this Executive Order to further the
					 coordination of the comprehensive and functional regional planning activities
					 of the State departments and agencies with one another and with those of the
					 Federal and local governments and of the private sector.
In the last decade, New York State has commenced a
					 coordinated effort to develop the State on a balanced regional basis. As part
					 of this effort, comprehensive planning and development regions were developed
					 for the State based upon area-wide groupings of counties reflecting their
					 physical, economic and human resource relationships.
The design of these regions, which were delineated after
					 study and consultation with the various State departments and agencies and
					 local governments, is such as will promote the efficient and effective
					 accomplishment of Federal, State and local development programs.
There now exists a comprehensive planning agency servicing
					 each of these planning and development regions.
Moreover, the Federal government, in its efforts to improve
					 intergovernmental coordination, has been recently requiring the use, insofar as
					 possible, of coterminous boundaries for planning the various federally assisted
					 development programs within the states.
Accordingly, the eleven comprehensive planning and
					 development regions as now constituted and represented on the annexed map
					 [below], and as such regions may from time to time be modified by the Governor,
					 are hereby declared to be the official comprehensive planning and development
					 regions of New York State.
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Further, I hereby direct the heads of the several State
					 departments and agencies to adopt and utilize the official comprehensive
					 planning and development regions for all comprehensive and functional planning
					 activities, and to submit a written report, no later than July 1, 1971, to the
					 Director of the State Office of Planning Coordination indicating the measures
					 taken to comply with this Order. Where the head of any department or agency
					 deems it not feasible for his department or agency to conform to these official
					 regional boundaries for planning purposes, he shall detail in the report the
					 reasons for this infeasibility, and shall propose alternative regional
					 boundaries which shall adhere to the official boundaries insofar as possible.
					 The Director of the State Office of Planning Coordination may approve the use
					 of alternative regional boundaries if he shall determine that such an
					 alternative is clearly justified.
In addition, I hereby direct the heads of the several State
					 departments and agencies to review their field services and operations, and
					 submit a written report to the Governor no later than July 1, 1971, detailing
					 the extent to which it would be desirable and possible to administer these
					 services and operations on the basis of the regions established by this
					 Order.
Signed: Nelson A. Rockefeller
Dated: February 1, 1971