§ 818. Judicial review. 1. Any act, omission, or order of the agency or of any officer or employee thereof, pursuant to or within the scope of this article, may be reviewed at the instance of any aggrieved person in accordance with article seventy-eight of the civil practice law and rules, but application for such review must be made not later than sixty days from the effective date of the order or the date when the act or omission occurred.

2. Any local government which appears as a party in any proceeding before the agency, shall have standing to have the agency's decision on such project reviewed pursuant to article seventy-eight of the civil practice law and rules.