§ 1334. Cooperation and assistance of other agencies. In the interest
of economy and to promote coordination of authority projects with state,
local, county and regional plans and also to carry out the objective of
full participation of all agencies in the development of a
transportation system and facilities to meet the objectives of this act,
the authority shall request and use existing studies, master plans,
surveys, data and other materials completed by or under development by
any state agency or any municipality or political subdivision of the
state. The authority shall consult with and cooperate with the
commissioner and with planning authorities in the areas of its
operations and shall utilize local or state planning. When a project is
contemplated by the authority, the authority shall submit a preliminary
prospectus thereof to the commissioner for review and comment and shall
consider the report of the commissioner in formulating detailed plans
for such project. When a project is contemplated by the authority within
the jurisdiction of any county planning board or the central New York
regional planning and development board, the authority shall prepare and
submit to such planning board or boards a preliminary prospectus
thereof, describing the purpose, general location, and nature of the
project contemplated, with such further data relative thereto that the
authority shall consider pertinent. Within sixty days of receipt of such
prospectus such planning board or boards shall prepare a report thereon,
commenting on its conformity or lack of conformity with any related
official plan of the state or region or any official planning agency
within the region. Such report shall be considered by the authority in
formulating detailed plans for such a project. At the request of the
authority, each such agency, municipality or subdivision which is
engaged in highway or other transportation activities or in land use or
development planning, or which is charged with the duty of providing or
regulating any transportation facility or any other public facility, is
further authorized to provide the authority with information regarding
its plans and programs affecting the transportation district so that the
authority may have available to it current information with respect
thereto. The officers and personnel of such agencies, municipalities or
subdivisions, and of any other government or agency whatever, may serve
at the request of the authority upon such advisory committees as the
authority shall determine to create and such officers and personnel may
serve upon such committees without forfeiture of office or employment
and with no loss or diminution in the compensation, status, rights and
privileges which they otherwise enjoy.