Section 704. Consent of state

1. The state of New York hereby authorizes
  the commissioner of general services to consent, in his  discretion,  to
  the  use  and occupation by the authority of any unappropriated lands of
  the state of New York including the land under the waters of  the  Saint
  Lawrence  river,  necessary  for  the  construction and operation of the
  bridge  and  approach  roads  herein  authorized  upon  such  terms  and
  conditions as such commissioner may deem appropriate.
    2.  The  state  hereby  further authorizes the commissioner of general
  services, with the consent of the commissioner  of  mental  hygiene  and
  approval  of  the  director  of  the budget, to grant to the authority a
  portion of the lands of the Saint Lawrence state hospital located in the
  county of Saint Lawrence, upon  such  terms  and  conditions,  including
  consideration,  as  such commissioner may determine. The portion of such
  lands of such hospital herein authorized to be granted  shall  be  taken
  from  the westerly end of the hospital property on the northerly side of
  Proctor avenue and to be bounded on the south by the northerly  line  of
  Proctor avenue, on the north and northwest by the high water line of the
  Saint  Lawrence river, on the west by the westerly boundary line of said
  hospital property and on the east by a line running from  the  northerly
  line  of  Proctor  avenue  northerly to the high water line of the Saint
  Lawrence river  so  as  to  contain  within  said  bounds  approximately
  seventy-five  acres  of  land  together with a triangular parcel of land
  between  Proctor  avenue  and  the  northerly  line  of  arterial  route
  thirty-seven,  bounded  on  the west by a westerly boundary line of said
  hospital grounds, on the south and east by  the  northerly  boundary  of
  arterial  route  thirty-seven,  and  on  the  north by the south side of
  Proctor avenue, excepting therefrom any and all lands taken and  devoted
  to  highway  purposes  of  the  state  of  New  York.  The department of
  transportation shall make an accurate survey of the  parcels  so  to  be
  granted  and the grants to the authority may describe the land according
  to such surveys. The commissioner of general services in determining the
  amount of the consideration for such grants shall take into account  the
  obsolescence  of  the improvements on the land conveyed, the cost to the
  authority, as  estimated  by  the  commissioner  of  transportation,  of
  demolition  of such facilities as are considered obsolete, and providing
  such improvement to the Saint Lawrence state hospital  property  as  the
  commissioner  of mental hygiene with the approval of the director of the
  budget, deems necessary in consequence of the grants  herein  authorized
  and  such  grants  shall  contain  appropriate  conditions to ensure the
  providing of such improvements by the authority at its cost and expense.
  Actual payment of the consideration for the grants, as determined by the
  commissioner of general services, shall not be required as  a  condition
  precedent  to  the  grants, but the amount thereof shall be certified by
  the commissioner to the state comptroller and shall be deemed an advance
  to the authority by the state  to  be  repaid  in  the  same  manner  as
  provided  in section seven hundred fifteen of this article for repayment
  of appropriations made by the state to the authority.