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                                  1857

                       2009-2010 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            January 12, 2009
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Introduced  by M. of A. NOLAN -- read once and referred to the Committee
  on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions

AN ACT to amend the public authorities law, in relation to requiring the
  power authority of the state of New York to provide power  and  energy
  to volunteer ambulance services and rescue squads

  THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section 1. The third undesignated paragraph of  section  1005  of  the
public  authorities  law, as amended by chapter 287 of the laws of 2004,
is amended to read as follows:
  The authority is further authorized to construct  and/or  acquire  and
complete  such base load generating, transmission and related facilities
as it deems necessary or desirable to assist in maintaining an  adequate
and  dependable  supply of electricity by supplying power and energy for
the metropolitan transportation authority, its subsidiary  corporations,
the  New York city transit authority, the port authority of New York and
New Jersey, the city of New York, the state  of  New  York,  the  United
States,  other  public corporations and electric corporations within the
metropolitan area of the city of New York within the state of New  York;
provided,  however,  that  (i) the acquisition of completed or partially
completed facilities shall be after public hearing and shall be  limited
to  facilities  located  in  New York city or Westchester county and the
energy and power generated by such facilities  shall  be  used,  to  the
extent  feasible,  for  the  benefit of electric consumers in that area,
(ii) not more than one such generating facility  shall  be  acquired  in
each of New York city and Westchester county, (iii) the price to be paid
pursuant  to  any  agreement  entered into with respect to the purchase,
appropriation  or  condemnation  of  any  such  completed  or  partially
completed facility, as the case may be, shall be subject to the approval
of  the  state comptroller and (iv) transmission facilities shall not be
so acquired pursuant to this paragraph unless such acquisition is neces-

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD01160-01-9
              

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sary to assure delivery of power and energy  produced  by  any  acquired
generating  facility. The authority is further authorized, to the extent
it deems it necessary or desirable, to provide power and energy,  as  it
may  determine  it  to be available, for the use by the Niagara frontier
transportation authority or its subsidiary corporation.   The  authority
is authorized to make energy efficiency services, clean energy technolo-
gies  and, in the event that supplies of power and energy are determined
to be available from the competitive market for this purpose, power  and
energy,  available  to  public  and  nonpublic  elementary and secondary
schools throughout the state.  THE AUTHORITY SHALL FURTHER PROVIDE POWER
AND ENERGY TO VOLUNTEER AMBULANCE SERVICES AND RESCUE SQUADS  THROUGHOUT
THE STATE.
  S  2.  This  act  shall  take  effect  on  the first of September next
succeeding the date on which it shall have become a law.