Bill Text: NY A02330 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Directs the public service commission to study the feasibility and the costs of burying all or most of the electrical, telephone and internet transmission lines in New York state and to publish and deliver a report of its findings to the governor and the legislature, and requires new electrical, telephone and internet transmission lines to be buried underground.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 33-4)
Status: (Passed) 2021-12-29 - approval memo.155 [A02330 Detail]
Download: New_York-2021-A02330-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 2330--A 2021-2022 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY January 14, 2021 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. JACOBSON, DICKENS, SIMON, REYES, THIELE, GALEF, GOTTFRIED, STERN, ZEBROWSKI, COLTON, ENGLEBRIGHT, MAGNARELLI, L. ROSENTHAL, BRABENEC, GUNTHER, LAVINE, RAMOS, SEAWRIGHT, HUNTER, AUBRY, BARRETT, DINOWITZ, LUNSFORD -- read once and referred to the Committee on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee AN ACT directing the public service commission to study the feasibility and the costs of burying all or most of the electrical, telephone and internet transmission lines in New York state and to publish and deliver a report of its findings to the governor and the legislature, and requiring new electrical, telephone and internet transmission lines to be buried underground The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. 1. The public service commission shall conduct a study to 2 analyze the feasibility and the costs of burying underground all or most 3 of the existing electrical, telephone and internet transmission lines in 4 New York state. Such study shall include an analysis of: 5 (a) the economic and environmental benefits from burying such existing 6 lines; and 7 (b) the economic cost burden of doing so, if any, including an esti- 8 mate of what the cost per utility customer would be, the number of jobs 9 to be created to complete the project and a timeline for completion of 10 the project. 11 2. In analyzing costs and benefits for the purposes of this study, the 12 commission shall consider the varying geographical areas of the state 13 and report separately on the impact particular areas might have on the 14 project. The study shall also quantify the economic costs and benefits 15 of burying existing electrical, telephone and internet transmission 16 lines to utility customers and shall disaggregate the results by utili- EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD05957-02-1A. 2330--A 2 1 ty. The study shall calculate the cost per customer of the entire cost 2 of the project statewide, regardless of where the customer lives, for 3 the life of the project on a monthly basis. 4 3. Within one year of the effective date of this act, the commission 5 shall: 6 (a) publish the report of its findings on its website in a location 7 accessible to the public; and 8 (b) deliver a copy of the report to the governor, the temporary presi- 9 dent of the senate, the speaker of the assembly, the chair of the senate 10 energy and telecommunications committee and the chair of the assembly 11 energy committee. 12 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.