* § 223. Reporting. The department shall:

1. Monitor the performance of each export trade development project
and require periodic and annual reports from each such project at such
time and in such manner as prescribed by the commissioner;

2. Evaluate the effectiveness of the export trade development projects
and other technical assistance programs authorized under this article
and shall report, on or before October first, nineteen hundred
eighty-eight and on or before October first of each year thereafter, the
results of such evaluation to the governor and the legislature. In the
case of export assistance programs involving the direct delivery of
assistance and services by the department, such report shall detail the
number of business firms served by the department, the number of trade
and investment inquiries referred by the department to business firms
and other interested parties, the approximate dollar amount of export
sales and investment of foreign capital in New York generated by the
activities of the department, and any other information the commissioner
deems pertinent to evaluating the effectiveness of such programs. In the
case of export trade development projects, such report shall include a
description of each project, its potential application to other areas of
the state, the success of each project in meeting its stated goals and
objectives, the economic impact of each project on the area served, the
degree of local and regional participation, financial and otherwise, in
each project, the coordination of each project with state and local
export promotion programs and resources and such other information the
commissioner deems pertinent to evaluating the effectiveness of the
export assistance development project program; and

3. (a) Submit to the director of the division of the budget, the
chairperson of the senate finance committee and the chairperson of the
assembly ways and means committee an evaluation of program effectiveness
prepared by an entity independent of the department. Such an evaluation
shall be submitted on or before September first, two thousand five and
on or before September first every four years thereafter.

(b) Between evaluation due dates, the department shall maintain the
necessary records and data required to satisfy such evaluation
requirements and to satisfy information requests received from the
director of the budget, the chairperson of the senate finance committee
and the chairperson of the assembly ways and means committee between
such evaluation due dates.

* NB Amendments effective insofar as they pertain to the Port
Authority of New York and New Jersey upon passage of same as legislation
by New Jersey