Bill Text: NY A03258 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires the emergency response plan of an electric corporation or the Long Island power authority to include plans for how the communication and coordination of efforts shall occur between the various parties involved in implementing such emergency response plan.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 11-7)

Status: (Passed) 2022-07-21 - signed chap.395 [A03258 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A03258-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          3258

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 22, 2021
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        Introduced  by M. of A. SAYEGH, DICKENS, GRIFFIN, GALEF, SIMON, BUTTENS-
          CHON, MONTESANO -- read once and referred to the Committee  on  Corpo-
          rations, Authorities and Commissions

        AN  ACT  to  amend  the public service law, in relation to requiring the
          emergency response plan of an electric corporation  to  include  plans
          for how the communication and coordination of efforts shall occur

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 21 of section 66 of the public
     2  service law, as added by section 4 of part X of chapter 57 of  the  laws
     3  of 2013, is amended to read as follows:
     4    (a) Each electric corporation subject to section twenty-five-a of this
     5  chapter  shall  annually, on or before December fifteenth, submit to the
     6  commission an emergency response plan for review and approval. The emer-
     7  gency response plan shall be designed for the reasonably prompt restora-
     8  tion of service in the case of an emergency event, defined for  purposes
     9  of  this  subdivision as an event where widespread outages have occurred
    10  in the service territory of the company due to storms  or  other  causes
    11  beyond  the  control  of  the company. The emergency response plan shall
    12  include, but need not be limited to, the following: (i) the  identifica-
    13  tion  of  management  staff responsible for company operations during an
    14  emergency; (ii) a communications system with customers during  an  emer-
    15  gency that extends beyond normal business hours and business conditions;
    16  (iii)  identification  of  and outreach plans to customers who had docu-
    17  mented their need for essential  electricity  for  medical  needs;  (iv)
    18  identification  of  and  outreach  plans to customers who had documented
    19  their need for essential electricity to  provide  critical  telecommuni-
    20  cations, critical transportation, critical fuel distribution services or
    21  other large-load customers identified by the commission; (v) designation
    22  of  company  staff  to  communicate with local officials and appropriate
    23  regulatory agencies; (vi) provisions  regarding  how  the  company  will

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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        A. 3258                             2

     1  assure the safety of its employees and contractors; (vii) procedures for
     2  deploying  company and mutual aid crews to work assignment areas; (viii)
     3  identification of additional supplies and  equipment  needed  during  an
     4  emergency;  (ix)  the  means of obtaining additional supplies and equip-
     5  ment; (x) procedures to  practice  the  emergency  response  plan;  (xi)
     6  appropriate  safety  precautions regarding electrical hazards, including
     7  plans to promptly secure downed wires within thirty-six hours of notifi-
     8  cation of the location of such downed wires from a  municipal  emergency
     9  official;  (xii)  plans  setting forth how the communication and coordi-
    10  nation of efforts between the electric corporation, electric corporation
    11  employees, electric corporation company crews, mutual aid  crews,  other
    12  utilities including cable television companies, internet service provid-
    13  ers,  local  governments  and  any  other  entity performing services to
    14  assist such electric corporation shall occur; and  [(xii)]  (xiii)  such
    15  other  additional  information  as the commission may require. Each such
    16  corporation shall, on an annual  basis,  undertake  drills  implementing
    17  procedures to practice its emergency management plan. The commission may
    18  adopt  additional  requirements  consistent with ensuring the reasonably
    19  prompt restoration of service in the case of an emergency event.
    20    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.