§ 704. Consent of state. 1. The state of New York hereby authorizes
the commissioner of general services to consent, in his discretion, to
the use and occupation by the authority of any unappropriated lands of
the state of New York including the land under the waters of the Saint
Lawrence river, necessary for the construction and operation of the
bridge and approach roads herein authorized upon such terms and
conditions as such commissioner may deem appropriate.

2. The state hereby further authorizes the commissioner of general
services, with the consent of the commissioner of mental hygiene and
approval of the director of the budget, to grant to the authority a
portion of the lands of the Saint Lawrence state hospital located in the
county of Saint Lawrence, upon such terms and conditions, including
consideration, as such commissioner may determine. The portion of such
lands of such hospital herein authorized to be granted shall be taken
from the westerly end of the hospital property on the northerly side of
Proctor avenue and to be bounded on the south by the northerly line of
Proctor avenue, on the north and northwest by the high water line of the
Saint Lawrence river, on the west by the westerly boundary line of said
hospital property and on the east by a line running from the northerly
line of Proctor avenue northerly to the high water line of the Saint
Lawrence river so as to contain within said bounds approximately
seventy-five acres of land together with a triangular parcel of land
between Proctor avenue and the northerly line of arterial route
thirty-seven, bounded on the west by a westerly boundary line of said
hospital grounds, on the south and east by the northerly boundary of
arterial route thirty-seven, and on the north by the south side of
Proctor avenue, excepting therefrom any and all lands taken and devoted
to highway purposes of the state of New York. The department of
transportation shall make an accurate survey of the parcels so to be
granted and the grants to the authority may describe the land according
to such surveys. The commissioner of general services in determining the
amount of the consideration for such grants shall take into account the
obsolescence of the improvements on the land conveyed, the cost to the
authority, as estimated by the commissioner of transportation, of
demolition of such facilities as are considered obsolete, and providing
such improvement to the Saint Lawrence state hospital property as the
commissioner of mental hygiene with the approval of the director of the
budget, deems necessary in consequence of the grants herein authorized
and such grants shall contain appropriate conditions to ensure the
providing of such improvements by the authority at its cost and expense.
Actual payment of the consideration for the grants, as determined by the
commissioner of general services, shall not be required as a condition
precedent to the grants, but the amount thereof shall be certified by
the commissioner to the state comptroller and shall be deemed an advance
to the authority by the state to be repaid in the same manner as
provided in section seven hundred fifteen of this article for repayment
of appropriations made by the state to the authority.