New York (State). St. Lawrence-Eastern Ontario Commission

FUNCTIONS. The St. Lawrence-Eastern Ontario Commission encouraged the preservation, protection, development, and use of the unique natural resources of the St. Lawrence River Valley and the lands adjacent to Lake Ontario's eastern shores. Its jurisdiction area included various towns in St. Lawrence, Jefferson, Oswego, and Cayuga counties which border the St. Lawrence River and Lake Ontario, as well as parts of the lake and river within the New York State boundary.

The commission's function was to encourage the full development of commercial, industrial, agricultural, residential, and other resources vital to the continued progress of the area. To accomplish this it carried out research and special studies to develop resource management programs (through data gathering and analysis, shoreline inventories, and sensitivity analyses); assisted local governments in environmental planning (for decisions on coastal planning and management); and provided technical assistance to local governments to implement land use management programs and to develop coastal resources, especially in the recreation and tourism sectors of the economy. The commission reviewed development projects to meet statewide standards and developed long-range regulatory policy on conservation and development of the area's coastal resources as one element of the statewide coastal management program.

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