The state sold the island to private interests more than 200 years ago.
In addition, the state would sell perhaps $5 billion or so of bonds.
This year, however, the state is selling the same building to the authority for another $30 million.
In April 1998, the state sold the site to the current developer.
If the state had sold the power at market rates, he said, surely it could have used $70,000 to create more than one job.
The state would then sell it at cost to the utilities.
The state eventually sold it to the city of Columbus in 1995.
The state sold $349 million of debt to pay for capital projects.
He said the state would be willing to either lease or sell it.
A survey by legislators a year ago showed that 34 states sold or gave away these data.