Bill Text: NY S07789 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Directs NYS power authority to release requests for proposals on certain natural gas powered generating facilities in New York city.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 7-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2012-06-21 - referred to corporations, authorities and commissions [S07789 Detail]
Download: New_York-2011-S07789-Introduced.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 7789 I N S E N A T E June 18, 2012 ___________ Introduced by Sen. MAZIARZ -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules AN ACT directing the power authority of the state of New York to release requests for proposals on certain natural gas powered generating facilities in and around New York city THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: 1 Section 1. (a) The power authority of the state of New York shall 2 within ninety days of the effective date of this act, issue a request 3 for the proposals to purchase from such authority one or more of the ten 4 gas turbine electric generating facilities with a nameplate capacity of 5 less than eighty megawatts each, owned by such authority as of the 6 effective date of this act and located in and around the city of New 7 York. Such request for proposals to sell such generators shall be put 8 out for bid for a maximum of ninety days and shall include the following 9 sites and generation facilities: 10 (1) Two units at Harlem River Yard Plant, located in the Harlem River 11 Yards, at E. 132nd Street, Bronx, New York 10454; 12 (2) Two units at Vernon Boulevard, located at 41-98, 42-02, 42-16 13 Vernon Boulevard, Long Island City, Queens, New York 11101; 14 (3) Two units at the Hell Gate Plant, located at Locust Avenue, E. 15 132nd Street to E. 134th Street, Bronx, New York 10454; 16 (4) Two units at the Windsor Terrace Power Plant, located at 3rd 17 Avenue and 23rd Street, Brooklyn, New York 11232; 18 (5) One unit at Pouch Terminal; located at 1 Edgewater Street, Staten 19 Island, New York 10305; and 20 (6) One unit at North First Avenue and River Street, located at 47-79 21 River Street, Brooklyn, New York 11211. 22 (b) The authority shall issue such requests to determine, among other 23 things, the likely value to New York state for the sale of such genera- 24 tors. The authority shall, within thirty days of the end of the solic- 25 itation period, report on the range of solicited bids to the governor, 26 the temporary president of the senate and the speaker of the assembly, 27 subject to all appropriate and applicable confidentiality requirements EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD16344-01-2 S. 7789 2 1 with respect to individual bids and information contained therein. The 2 authority shall commence actions, as the authority's board of trustees 3 determines appropriate and necessary, to effectuate the sale of such 4 facilities. 5 (c) The authority is authorized and directed to deposit the proceeds 6 of the sale of such generators into a special account to be administered 7 by the New York Energy Research and Development Authority for the 8 purposes of (i) incentivizing the repowering of load bearing electric 9 generating facilities that currently meet or exceed the minimum stand- 10 ards established in the final rule of the proposed National Emission 11 Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants provided that the eligible plants 12 agree to repower such facility and construct new or retrofit existing 13 electric generators, and (ii) for other associated upgrades, including 14 but not limited to the construction or improvement of energy related 15 infrastructure. 16 To the extent practicable, funds shall also be made available to 17 provide assistance to municipal corporations as defined in section 102 18 of the real property tax law, that have been substantially adversely 19 impacted by the loss of property tax revenues or the loss of revenues 20 from payments in lieu of taxes due to the closing of a major electric 21 generating facility. 22 S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.