Bill Text: NY A08466 | 2009-2010 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Requires alternative fuels to be available for public use along the New York state thruway after November 1, 2011 and to provide each recommended alternative fuel at least every one hundred twenty miles on both sides of the thruway; defines "alternative fuel".

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-06-01 - print number 8466b [A08466 Detail]

Download: New_York-2009-A08466-Amended.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                        8466--B
                              2009-2010 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                     May 21, 2009
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       Introduced  by M. of A. FIELDS, LATIMER -- read once and referred to the
         Committee on Energy -- recommitted  to  the  Committee  on  Energy  in
         accordance  with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee discharged, bill
         amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said  commit-
         tee  --  again  reported  from said committee with amendments, ordered
         reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
       AN ACT to amend the energy  law  and  the  public  authorities  law,  in
         relation  to  the availability of alternative fuels along the New York
         state thruway
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1. Section 1-103 of the energy law is amended by adding a new
    2  subdivision 14 to read as follows:
    3    14. "ALTERNATIVE FUEL" SHALL  MEAN  ETHANOL,  METHANOL,  NATURAL  GAS,
    4  PROPANE,  ELECTRICITY  (INCLUDING ELECTRICITY FROM SOLAR ENERGY), HYDRO-
    5  GEN, AND ANY OTHER FUEL IDENTIFIED WHICH IS SUBSTANTIALLY  NOT  PETROLE-
    6  UM-BASED,  WHICH  IS  CONSISTENT WITH THE GOALS OF PROTECTING THE SAFETY
    7  AND HEALTH OF THE PUBLIC AND MINIMIZING EMISSIONS OF AIR POLLUTANTS, AND
    8  WHICH  IS  CONSISTENT  WITH  ANY  APPLICABLE  FEDERAL  ALTERNATIVE  FUEL
    9  REQUIREMENTS.
   10    S  2.  The energy law is amended by adding a new section 5-129 to read
   11  as follows:
   12    S 5-129. ALTERNATIVE FUELS.   STATE ENERGY  RESEARCH  AND  DEVELOPMENT
   13  AUTHORITY SHALL PROVIDE THE NEW YORK STATE THRUWAY AUTHORITY WITH A LIST
   14  OF THE MOST FEASIBLE ALTERNATIVE FUELS, WHICH SHALL NUMBER NO FEWER THAN
   15  THREE,  AND  ASSIST  THE  AUTHORITY  IN IMPLEMENTING THE REQUIREMENTS OF
   16  SECTION THREE HUNDRED FIFTY-FOUR OF THE PUBLIC AUTHORITIES LAW.
   17    S 3. Subdivision 10 of section 354 of the public authorities  law,  as
   18  amended  by  chapter  766  of  the  laws  of 1992, is amended to read as
   19  follows:
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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    1    10. To construct, reconstruct or  improve  on  or  along  the  thruway
    2  system  in  the  manner  herein  provided,  suitable  facilities for gas
    3  stations, restaurants, and other facilities for the public, or to  lease
    4  the  right to construct, reconstruct or improve and operate such facili-
    5  ties;  such  facilities shall be publicly offered for leasing for opera-
    6  tion, or the right to construct, reconstruct or improve and operate such
    7  facilities shall be publicly offered under rules and regulations  to  be
    8  established  by the authority, provided, however, that lessees operating
    9  such facilities at the time this act becomes effective, may  reconstruct
   10  or  improve  them  or  may  construct additional like facilities, in the
   11  manner and upon such terms and conditions as the board shall  determine;
   12  and  provided further, however, that such facilities constructed, recon-
   13  structed or improved on or along the canal system  shall  be  consistent
   14  with  the  canal  recreationway  plan  approved  pursuant to section one
   15  hundred thirty-eight-c of the canal law and section three hundred eight-
   16  y-two of this title; AND  PROVIDED  FURTHER,  HOWEVER,  THAT  EACH  SUCH
   17  FACILITY  WHICH  CONTAINS  OR CONSISTS OF A GAS STATION SHALL, BEGINNING
   18  NOVEMBER FIRST, TWO THOUSAND ELEVEN, INCLUDE A FACILITY FOR  SELLING  TO
   19  THE PUBLIC AN ALTERNATIVE FUEL, AS DEFINED IN SECTION 1-103 OF THE ENER-
   20  GY LAW AND EACH ALTERNATIVE FUEL RECOMMENDED TO THE AUTHORITY BY THE NEW
   21  YORK STATE ENERGY RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY PURSUANT TO SECTION
   22  5-129  OF THE ENERGY LAW SHALL BE MADE AVAILABLE AT INTERVALS OF NO MORE
   23  THAN ONE HUNDRED TWENTY MILES ON EACH SIDE OF THE THRUWAY;
   24    S 4. This act shall take effect immediately.