Bill Text: NY S06336 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced
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Bill Title: Directs the state energy planning board to conduct a study of natural gas reliability and to prepare a report on the study's findings and legislative recommendations.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2018-06-20 - COMMITTED TO RULES [S06336 Detail]
Download: New_York-2017-S06336-Introduced.html
Bill Title: Directs the state energy planning board to conduct a study of natural gas reliability and to prepare a report on the study's findings and legislative recommendations.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2018-06-20 - COMMITTED TO RULES [S06336 Detail]
Download: New_York-2017-S06336-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 6336 2017-2018 Regular Sessions IN SENATE May 11, 2017 ___________ Introduced by Sen. GRIFFO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Energy and Telecommuni- cations AN ACT to amend the energy law, in relation to directing the state ener- gy planning board to conduct a study of natural gas reliability The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 6-108 of the energy law is amended by adding a new 2 subdivision 4 to read as follows: 3 4. On or before January first, two thousand eighteen, the board shall 4 undertake to study the overall reliability of the state's supply of 5 natural gas. The board shall contract with an independent and competi- 6 tively selected contractor with experience in natural gas to undertake 7 such study. The board shall prepare a report on such study's findings 8 and legislative recommendations. The board shall transmit such report 9 along with the reliability study to the governor, the speaker of the 10 assembly, the temporary president of the senate, the chair of the assem- 11 bly energy committee and the chair of the senate energy and telecommuni- 12 cations committee. The foregoing study shall include an assessment of 13 the following: 14 (a) the need for additional transmission of natural gas in the state 15 and to states in New England; 16 (b) the integrity and impacts of new natural gas infrastructure as it 17 relates to the environment; 18 (c) the consequences to existing natural gas customers in the state of 19 constraints in the natural gas delivery system; 20 (d) the economic demand for additional natural gas from residential, 21 commercial, manufacturing and industrial sectors in the state; and 22 (e) status of and future opportunities for the implementation of 23 natural gas expansion under public service commission proceedings and 24 the state energy plan. 25 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD11737-01-7