New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation-Western District

  Niagara Falls, NY

 

 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE                                                       CONTACT:  Angela P. Berti

April 30, 2008                                                                                                 (716) 278-1764

 

State Parks Standing Committee to Meet for Project Update

 

The New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation Niagara River Greenway Fund Standing Committee (State Parks Standing Committee) will hold a meeting to provide an update on projects that had been previously funded by the Standing Committee at the New York Power Authority's (NYPA) Community Room located on the grounds of the Niagara Power Project in Lewiston. This meeting is open to the general public. The Committee will not be voting on any new projects.

 

The State Parks Standing Committee receives funds from NYPA, as part of a settlement agreement related to the new 50-year license received by NYPA for the Niagara project.  In addition to the State Parks Standing Committee, three other standing committees were created to disperse funds those groups received in other settlement agreements with NYPA.  The other committees are: Greenway Ecological Standing Committee, Host Community Greenway Fund Standing Committee and the Erie County Greenway Fund Standing Committee.

 

The Niagara River Greenway Commission is a public benefit corporation established by Chapter 460 of the laws of 2004, and charged with the planning and development of a greenway of interconnected parks, river access points and waterfront trails along the Niagara River from Lake Erie to Lake Ontario at the site of the historic Fort Niagara.

 

To learn more about the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation log onto
www.nysparks.state.ny.us.

To learn more information about the Commission log onto
www.niagaragreenway.org.

For more information about NYPA and the relicensing of the Niagara project, please log onto
http://niagara.nypa.gov.

  

WHAT:          State Parks Standing Committee Meeting 

 

WHEN:          Thursday, May 7, 2008 at 3:00 p.m.

           

WHERE:        New York Power Authority Community Room

                        Power Vista

                        Niagara Power Project 

                        5777 Lewiston Road

                        Lewiston NY 14092-2199

 

 

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