§ 14-a. Preservation of agricultural lands, public park and
recreational lands, wildlife and waterfowl refuges and historical sites.
The commissioner of transportation shall cooperate and consult with the
commissioners of agriculture and markets, parks and recreation,
environmental conservation and health in developing transportation plans
and programs so that such programs include measures to maintain or
enhance the desirable natural characteristics of the land traversed.
Such cooperation and consultation shall be effected and implemented by
memoranda of understanding which shall be entered into between the
commissioner of transportation and each of such commissioners. Such
memoranda of understanding shall provide for review of proposed
transportation projects by such commissioners at all stages of progress,
including preliminary and final planning and during construction, and
for the cooperation by the department of transportation necessary to
facilitate such review. Such memoranda of understanding shall also
provide that the commissioner of transportation shall implement any
suggestion or recommendation made by any of such commissioners which he
deems feasible in connection with the preservation of agricultural
lands, lands of public parks and recreational areas, wildlife and
waterfowl refuges and historical sites.