to the emergency, Congress passed the Niagara Redevelopment Act in 1957. After obtaining a license from the Federal Power Commission, Robert Moses commenced work on NYPA’s second hydroelectric generating station in early 1958. When it was completed, three years later, the Niagara Power Project was the largest facility of its kind in the Western world. In a recorded message broadcast February 10, 1961, to mark first power, President John F. Kennedy called the Niagara project “an outstanding engineering achievement” and an “example to the world of North American efficiency and determination.” Blenheim-Gilboa Pumped Storage Power Project Legislation signed by Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller in 1968 allowed NYPA to expand its generation assets and build nuclear and pumped storage power projects. This led to construction of the Blenheim-Gilboa Pumped Storage Power Project, which produced electricity for the first time in July 1973, and the James A. FitzPatrick Nuclear Power Plant (named after a NYPA chairman), in Scriba, Oswego County, where power was first generated in February 1975. List of Chairs of the New York Power Authority Francis Patrick Walsh, 1931-1939. James Cummings Bonbright, 1939-1946. Maj.-Gen. Francis Bowditch Wilby, 1946-1950. John Edward Burton, 1950-1954. Robert Moses, 1954-1963. James A. FitzPatrick, 1963-1977. Frederick R. Clark, 1977-1979. John Stuart Dyson, 1979-1985. Richard M. Flynn, 1985-1994. Clarence D. Rappleyea Jr., 1995-2001. Joseph J. Seymour, 2001-2002. Louis P. Ciminelli, 2002-2006. Frank S. McCullough Jr., 2006-2008. Michael J. Townsend, 2008-2012. John R. Koelmel, 2012-present. See also Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Green Island Power Authority Indian Point Energy Center James A. FitzPatrick Nuclear Power Plant Long Island Power Authority New York State Energy Research and Development Authority New York State Public Service Commission New York State Thruway Authority New York energy law References External links Power Authority of the State of New York in the New York Codes, Rules and Regulations Municipal electric utilities of the United States Hydroelectric power companies of the United States 1931 establishments in New York (state) Public benefit corporations in New York (state) New York Energy in New York (state) Energy infrastructure on Long Island, New York