Opn. No.

Requestor: Honorable Thomas C. Jorling, Commissioner Department of Environmental Conservation 50 Wolf Road Albany, New York 12233

Written by: Robert Abrams, Attorney General

Your counsel raises the issue whether temporary conveyance by the State of approximately 50 acres of reforestation land, located in the Town of Brasher, St. Lawrence County, to the New York State Urban Development Corporation (the "UDC") to facilitate construction and operation by the State of an alcohol and substance abuse treatment correctional annex, pursuant to L 1983, ch 56, as amended (the "Prison Construction Act"),…