DUNKIRK, N.Y. — Chautauqua County officials are trying to make the case with Albany that they have the best site to locate a new nuclear power plant.

It comes as the New York Power Authority is asking upstate communities to step forward if they have an interest in becoming a host community in its future plan for a new plant.

The lakeside former Dunkirk power plant — closed as a coal burning facility back in 2015 and still owned by NRG Energy — still looms with its greatly diminished taxpayer status over the community. Chautauqua County leaders still want to see that transformation to a nuclear energy power facility, and they're all in on Gov. Kathy Hochul's previously announced plan to locate a new nuclear plant somewhere upstate.

There is a new New York Power Authority request for such

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