Bill Text: NY A00088 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Provides that, prior to granting a certificate for the construction of an electric transmission line facility, the public service commission must find that the facility conforms to the most recent state energy plan and consider whether approval of the facility would cause adverse impacts on the state's environmental quality due to electric generation.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-03 - referred to energy [A00088 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A00088-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           88
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                       (Prefiled)
                                     January 4, 2017
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        Introduced  by M. of A. CAHILL -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. COLTON,
          MOYA, ROSENTHAL -- read once and referred to the Committee on Energy
        AN ACT to amend the public service law, in relation to approval of elec-
          tric transmission line facilities
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Paragraph (e) of subdivision 1 of section 126 of the public
     2  service  law,  as amended by chapter 521 of the laws of 2015, is amended
     3  to read as follows:
     4    (e) in the case of an electric transmission line, (1)  what  part,  if
     5  any,  of  the  line shall be located underground; (2) that such facility
     6  conforms to [a long-range plan for expansion of the electric power  grid
     7  of  the  electric  systems serving this state and interconnected utility
     8  systems, which will serve the interests of electric system  economy  and
     9  reliability]  the  most recent state energy plan as established pursuant
    10  to article six of the energy   law, with consideration  of  whether  the
    11  approval  of  such  facility  would cause adverse impacts on the state's
    12  environmental quality due to an increase  in  in-state  or  out-of-state
    13  electric generation;
    14    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD01495-01-7