Bill Text: NY S01918 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to agreements, such as leases or easements, related to renewable energy development rights on reforestation areas.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)

Status: (Engrossed) 2024-03-20 - referred to environmental conservation [S01918 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S01918-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          1918

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 17, 2023
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        Introduced  by  Sens.  MAY,  HOYLMAN-SIGAL,  MANNION  --  read twice and
          ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee  on
          Environmental Conservation

        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  environmental  conservation law, in relation to
          agreements related to renewable energy development rights on  refores-
          tation areas

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

     1    Section 1. The environmental conservation law is amended by  adding  a
     2  new section 9-0508 to read as follows:
     3  § 9-0508. Agreements  related  to renewable energy development rights on
     4              reforestation areas.
     5    Notwithstanding any provisions of article seven of  the  public  lands
     6  law  to  the  contrary, the department may, in any lands acquired by the
     7  state in accordance with section 9-0501 of this title, enter into agree-
     8  ments, such as leases or easements, for the purpose  of  aiding  in  the
     9  siting and connectivity of renewable energy installations and the trans-
    10  mission  and  distribution  of electricity therefrom. Such installations
    11  shall include, but not be limited to, solar power and wind power,  under
    12  such  terms as may be prescribed by the department, and upon such condi-
    13  tions that the exercise of such agreement  rights  shall  not  interfere
    14  with  the  operation  of  such  reforestation areas for the purposes for
    15  which they were acquired and as defined  in  section  three  of  article
    16  fourteen  of  the  New  York  state constitution. Any agreement made and
    17  entered into pursuant to this section shall be recorded in the office of
    18  general services and be made available to the  public  on  the  official
    19  website of such office.
    20    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.


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