Bill Text: NY A08189 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Directs the office of renewable energy, in consultation with the public service commission, to post a map on its website containing certain information about proposed major renewable energy facility sites and create an informational tab that calculates the regional impacts of such proposed sites.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to energy [A08189 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A08189-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8189

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    October 27, 2023
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        Introduced  by M. of A. LUPARDO -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Energy

        AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to directing  the  office
          of  renewable  energy  siting, in consultation with the public service
          commission, to create a statewide map of all proposed major  renewable
          energy  facility  sites  and  an  informational  tab  that  calculates
          regional impacts of such proposed sites

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

     1    Section 1. Paragraph (c) of subdivision 5 of section 94-c of the exec-
     2  utive  law is amended by adding three new subparagraphs (iii), (iv), and
     3  (v) to read as follows:
     4    (iii) In addition to the information required by subparagraph  (i)  of
     5  this  paragraph,  the  office,  in  consultation with the public service
     6  commission, shall post, maintain, and regularly update on its website  a
     7  statewide  map  with  the  location, approximate acreage, and generation
     8  capacity of each approved and proposed facility pursuant to this article
     9  or renewable electric generating facility pursuant to article ten of the
    10  public service law for which permitted, complete, or incomplete applica-
    11  tions or notices of intent have been  received  by  the  office  or  the
    12  public  service  commission.  Such statewide map shall include any addi-
    13  tional information the office deems necessary. The information  required
    14  pursuant  to  this  subparagraph shall be updated upon the completion of
    15  each new or updated application for a proposed facility.
    16    (iv) In addition to the information required by  subparagraph  (i)  of
    17  this  paragraph,  the  office,  in  consultation with the public service
    18  commission, shall create an informational tab, using  previously  estab-
    19  lished  regional  economic  development council regions, that calculates
    20  regional impacts of renewable energy  generation  facilities  for  which
    21  permitted,  complete,  or  incomplete  applications or notices of intent

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  have been received by the office or the public service commission.  Such
     2  impacts include, but are not limited to, total acreage of:
     3    a. the proposed project;
     4    b. the project's prime agricultural land and prime soils, unique farm-
     5  land,  and  farmland of statewide or local importance, including Mineral
     6  Soils Group (MSG) 1-4, as defined by the department of  agriculture  and
     7  markets;
     8    c.  the project's open space, as defined by section two hundred forty-
     9  seven of the general municipal law; and
    10    d. the project's forest land, as defined  by  section  9-0101  of  the
    11  environmental conservation law.
    12    (v)  The  map  shall be updated immediately upon receipt of permitted,
    13  complete, or incomplete  applications  or  notices  of  intent  for  the
    14  proposed project by the office or the public service commission.
    15    §  2.  This  act  shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
    16  have become a law; provided, however, that the amendments  to  paragraph
    17  (c)  of  subdivision  5  of  section  94-c  of the executive law made by
    18  section one of this act shall not affect the repeal of such section  and
    19  shall be deemed repealed therewith. Effective immediately, the addition,
    20  amendment  and/or  repeal  of  any  rule or regulation necessary for the
    21  implementation of this act on its effective date are  authorized  to  be
    22  made and completed on or before such effective date.