Senate Bill S4849

                             
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                                   4849
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             February 13, 2025
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 Introduced  by  Sen.  FAHY  --  read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation
 
 AN ACT directing the department of transportation to conduct  a  traffic
   and  planning  study  on  the feasibility of transforming the Harriman
   campus in connection with the relocation of the  Wadsworth  Laboratory
   at Harriman
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. 1. The department of transportation shall conduct a traffic
 and planning study to determine  the  feasibility  of  transforming  the
 eastern  end of the Harriman campus in connection with the relocation of
 the Wadsworth Laboratory at Harriman that will allow  easier  access  to
 the  campus  from  the city of Albany, help better connect and integrate
 the campus within the city of Albany,  and  provide  reasonable  traffic
 operations  allowing  for  additional acreage for mixed-use development,
 green space, and multi-modal transportation. For the  purposes  of  this
 act, the term "Harriman campus" shall mean the W. Averell Harriman state
 office building campus located in Albany, New York.
   2.  Such  study shall examine the challenges, opportunities, cost, and
 environmental impact of transforming the eastern  end  of  the  Harriman
 campus  in connection with the relocation of the Wadsworth Laboratory at
 Harriman that will allow easier access to the Harriman campus  from  the
 city  of  Albany,  help better connect and integrate the Harriman campus
 within the city of Albany, and  provide  reasonable  traffic  operations
 allowing  for additional acreage for mixed-use development, green space,
 and multi-modal transportation. Further,  such  study  shall  take  into
 consideration  efforts  to  harness  the  full  multiplier effect of the
 public investment, create a diverse  capital  region  research  triangle
 with  the  State  University  at  Albany,  the  Albany NanoTech Complex,
 including the SUNY Polytechnic Institute's College of Nanoscale  Science
 and  Engineering,  and  the  SUNY Emerging Technology & Entrepreneurship
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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 Complex (ETEC), examine parts of 27 acres currently targeted  for  Wads-
 worth Laboratory to provide space for private sector research & develop-
 ment  spin-off,  thereby  gaining  taxable  property,  and  relocate the
 University  at  Albany  School  of Public Health to the Harriman campus.
 Such study shall consider the findings of the 2007 Harriman campus link-
 age study completed by the capital district transportation committee and
 relevant findings from the Harriman Research and Technology  Development
 Corporation.
   3.  Upon completion of such study, but no later than one year from the
 effective date of this act, the department of transportation shall issue
 a report based on the findings of such study to the governor, the tempo-
 rary president of the senate, and the  speaker  of  the  assembly.  Such
 report shall include, but not be limited to:
   (a) the findings of such study;
   (b)  any  short-term  and long-term actions that can be implemented by
 the department of transportation, a plan of action for such  implementa-
 tion, and the estimated cost of such implementation plan; and
   (c) any recommendations to the governor and legislature.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.