Bill Text: NY A08179 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to the timing of the commencement of certain engineering, environmental permitting and cost feasibility analyses and studies.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-06-01 - held for consideration in corporations, authorities and commissions [A08179 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A08179-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         8179
                              2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                     June 11, 2015
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       Introduced  by  M. of A. RAIA -- read once and referred to the Committee
         on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions
       AN ACT to amend section 16 of part A of chapter 173 of the laws of 2013,
         amending the public service law, the public authorities law, the exec-
         utive law and the education law relating to the powers and  duties  of
         the  department of public service and the Long Island power authority,
         in relation to the timing of the commencement of certain  engineering,
         environmental permitting and cost feasibility analysis and studies
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. Section 16 of part A of chapter 173 of the  laws  of  2013,
    2  amended  the  public service law, the public authorities law, the execu-
    3  tive law and the education law relating to the powers and duties of  the
    4  department  of  public  service  and the Long Island power authority, as
    5  amended by section 5 of part W of chapter 58 of the  laws  of  2015,  is
    6  amended to read as follows:
    7    S 16. Repowering. The Long Island power authority, in cooperation with
    8  its service provider, as defined under section 3-b of the public service
    9  law,  and the owner of the legacy LILCO power generating facilities will
   10  perform an engineering, environmental permitting  and  cost  feasibility
   11  analysis  and  study  of  repowering  the  Port  Jefferson power station
   12  located in the town of Brookhaven in the county  of  Suffolk,  the  E.F.
   13  Barrett  power station located in the town of Hempstead in the county of
   14  Nassau, and the Northport power station located in the village of North-
   15  port in the county of Suffolk.  Such  study  will  focus  on  repowering
   16  utilizing  greater efficiency and environmentally friendly technologies,
   17  and shall have been commenced no later than October  1,  2015  [for  the
   18  power  stations in the town of Brookhaven and the town of Hempstead, and
   19  no later than October 1, 2018 for the power station in  the  village  of
   20  Northport]. These analyses shall be completed and presented to the board
   21  of  the  Long  Island  power authority and the Long Island branch of the
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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    1  department of public service no later than  eighteen  months  after  the
    2  analysis  commencement date.   If after the Long Island power authority,
    3  or its successor, determines, in accordance with the feasibility  deter-
    4  minations  resulting from the studies and analyses authorized under this
    5  section, and in accordance with the terms and  conditions  contained  in
    6  the amended and restated power supply agreement ("A&R PSA"), dated Octo-
    7  ber  10,  2012,  between the authority and the owner of the legacy LILCO
    8  power generating facilities, that repowering any such generating facili-
    9  ty is in the best interests of  its  ratepayers  and  will  enhance  the
   10  authority's ability to provide a more efficient, reliable and economical
   11  supply  of electric energy in its service territory, consistent with the
   12  goal of improving environmental quality, the authority will exercise its
   13  rights under the A&R PSA related to  repowering  any  such  facility  or
   14  facilities,  and  shall  enter  into an agreement related to payments in
   15  lieu-of-taxes for a term commensurate with any power purchase  agreement
   16  entered  into  related to such repowered facility, consistent with other
   17  such agreements related to generating facilities under contract  to  the
   18  authority in the service territory.
   19    S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.