Assembly Bill A7576

2015-2016 Legislative Session

Relates to net metering standards for municipal landfills and waste water treatment facilities

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2015-A7576 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S5430
Current Committee:
Assembly Energy
Law Section:
Public Service Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง66-j, Pub Serv L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2017-2018: A4469, S1079
2019-2020: S22

2015-A7576 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to net metering standards for municipal landfills and waste water treatment facilities.

2015-A7576 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  7576

                       2015-2016 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                              May 19, 2015
                               ___________

Introduced  by M. of A. MAGEE -- read once and referred to the Committee
  on Energy

AN ACT to amend the public service law,  in  relation  to  net  metering
  standards for municipal landfills and waste water treatment facilities

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

  Section 1. The section heading of section 66-j of the  public  service
law,  as  amended by chapter 546 of the laws of 2011, is amended to read
as follows:
  Net energy metering for residential solar, farm waste, non-residential
solar electric generating systems, micro-combined heat and power  gener-
ating  equipment,  fuel cell electric generating equipment, [and] micro-
hydroelectric generating equipment AND WASTE FUELED ELECTRIC  GENERATING
EQUIPMENT AT MUNICIPAL LANDFILLS AND PUBLICLY OWNED TREATMENT WORKS.
  S  2.  Subdivision  1  of  section  66-j  of the public service law is
amended by adding three new paragraphs (i),  (j)  and  (k)  to  read  as
follows:
  (I)  "LANDFILL"  MEANS A DISPOSAL FACILITY OR PART OF A FACILITY WHERE
SOLID WASTE, AS DEFINED IN 6 NYCRR 360-1.2(A)(1), IS  PLACED  IN  OR  ON
LAND, AND WHICH IS NOT A LAND TREATMENT FACILITY, A SURFACE IMPOUNDMENT,
OR  AN INJECTION WELL, WHICH IS OWNED OR OPERATED BY A MUNICIPAL GOVERN-
MENT OR BY A PUBLIC PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP ESTABLISHED  UNDER  SECTION  ONE
HUNDRED TWENTY-W OF THE GENERAL MUNICIPAL LAW.
  (J)  "PUBLICLY OWNED TREATMENT WORKS" MEANS A FACILITY FOR THE PURPOSE
OF TREATING, NEUTRALIZING OR STABILIZING SEWAGE, INCLUDING TREATMENT  OR
DISPOSAL  PLANTS, THE NECESSARY INTERCEPTING, OUTFALL AND OUTLET SEWERS,
PUMPING STATIONS INTEGRAL  TO  SUCH  PLANTS  OR  SEWERS,  EQUIPMENT  AND
FURNISHINGS  THEREOF  AND THEIR APPURTENANCES WHICH IS OWNED OR OPERATED
BY A MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENT OR BY A PUBLIC PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP ESTABLISHED
UNDER SECTION ONE HUNDRED TWENTY OF THE GENERAL MUNICIPAL LAW.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD11001-03-5

              

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