2006 New York Code - Comprehensive Inventory Of Lands Having Statewide Or Regional Significance.

 
  § 49-0205. Comprehensive inventory of lands having statewide or regional
               significance.
    1.  In  order  to  help  provide  a  basis  for  a  strategy  for  the
  preservation of land resources in the state and the preparation  of  the
  state land acquisition plan, the department and the office shall prepare
  a  comprehensive inventory of protected and unprotected resources having
  statewide or regional environmental, historic, cultural or  recreational
  significance. Such inventory shall include the following:
    a.  open  space, forest land and park land owned by federal, state and
  local governmental entities;
    b. forest land in private ownership under the terms  of  section  four
  hundred eighty-a of the real property tax law;
    c.  wetlands protected by articles twenty-four and twenty-five of this
  chapter;
    d.  agricultural  areas,  including  agricultural  districts   created
  pursuant to article twenty-five-AA of the agriculture and markets law as
  recommended by the commissioner of agriculture and markets;
    e.  water  resources,  including wild, scenic and recreational rivers,
  streams and aquifer recharge areas protected by article fifteen of  this
  chapter;
    f.  marine  and  other  coastal  resources,  including coastal erosion
  hazard areas protected by article thirty-four of this chapter;
    g. open space lands, forest lands and park lands  dedicated  by  other
  than  governmental  entities  to ecological, wildlife management, forest
  management or recreational purposes; and
    h.  lands  which  possess  statewide  or  regional  significance   for
  historic, cultural, ecological, open space, outdoor recreation, resource
  protection  or  wildlife  management  purposes, including the purpose of
  restoring extirpated species.
    2. Such inventory, in such segments and such form as  may  be  readily
  available  at  any  given  time, shall be available to the regional land
  acquisition advisory committees and other members of the public.