Hi James,
For NYS, it is a completely separate process. I'd applied through FCCPT...their role is to collect and verify all the documents and then they send everything to the NYSED for evaluation.
I gave CLEP- chem and had submitted it to the NYSED. I am not sure whether they accepted it or not...as I didn't get any credit eval report from the NYSED.
However, I did get the approval letter

Deepti