Memo on WTC redevelopment legislation, Nov 2003

NYC 9/11 Public Portal Document

1 ^‘Public agency”^all mean any ageircyot the state of New York or the city of

2 New York, the school district of the city of New York, any public benefit corporation, and any

3 public authority.

4 b. “Lower Manhattan” shall mean the area to the south of and within the following

5 lines: a line beginning at a point where the United States pierhead line in the Hudson river as it

6 exists now or may be extended would intersect with the southerly line of West Houston street in

7 the borough of Manhattan extended, thence easterly along the southerly side of West Houston

8 street to the southerly side of Houston street, thence easterly along the southerly side of Houston

9 street to the southerly side of East Houston street, thence northeasterly along the southerly side

10 of East Houston street to the point where it would intersect with the United States pierhead line

11 in the East river as it exists now or may be extended, including tax lots within or immediately

12 adj acent thereto.

13 c, “Lower Manhattan redevelopment project” shall mean any project that has been

14 certified prior to January 1, 2014 by the governor of the state of New York, the mayor of the city

15 of New York, or the lower Manhattan development corporation, as a project whose realization

16 will further the purposes of this act and that is in lower Manhattan, or is related to lower

17 Manhattan and funded in whole or in part with federal funding pursuant to the 2001 Emergency

18 Supplemental Appropriations Act for Recovery from and Response to Terrorist Attacks on the

19 United States, P.L. 107-38; the 2002 Supplemental Appropriations Act for Further Recovery

20 from and Response to Terrorist Attacks on the United States, P.L. 107-206; or such subsequent

21 federal appropriations as are made to facilitate recovery from and response to terrorist attacks.

22 d. “Project” shall include design, construction and reconstruction, rehabilitation,

23 restoration, and modernization of buildings, structures and monuments and memorials on land or

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