NY State Senate Bill 2017-S4715

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Mar 20, 2018	print number 4715a
Mar 20, 2018	amend and recommit to energy and telecommunications
Jan 03, 2018	referred to energy and telecommunications
Feb 24, 2017	referred to energy and telecommunications

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2017-S4715 - Details

Current Committee:: Senate Energy And Telecommunications
Law Section:: Public Service Law
Laws Affected:: Add §66-o, Pub Serv L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:: 2015-2016: S5811
2019-2020: S1683
2021-2022: S1380

2017-S4715 - Summary

Relates to requiring gas corporations to file annual gas safety reports.

2017-S4715 - Sponsor Memo

                                 BILL NUMBER:  S4715

 TITLE OF BILL :  An act to amend the public service law, in relation
to filing gas safety reports

 PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL :

To increase gas safety and promote the public interest.

 SUMMARY OF SPECIFIC PROVISIONS :

* Paragraph one creates the requirement that each gas corporation must
file an annual gas safety report with Department of Public Service.
The Department would review to ensure each gas corporation is
complying with Public Service Law, the Commission's rules,
regulations, and orders, and any practice the Department has deemed
necessary for providing safe and reliable service.

* Paragraph two sets the requirements for the gas safety report which
shall include a thorough description and explanation of the strategic
planning and decision-making methodology used to determine and
prioritize pipeline replacement projects, a description of the
corporation's operations and maintenance activities related to gas
safety, and a description of its inspection policies relating to its
pipeline infrastructure. It also requires a gas corporation to submit
a list of pipeline replacement projects completed by a gas corporation

within the last year and to indicate which were completed by employees
of the gas corporation and which were completed by contractors. The
Commission is also authorized to order a cost benefit analysis to
further examine this practice.

* Paragraph three requires the Department to notify the Commission of
any deficiencies in a gas corporation's prioritization of projects or
administration of its pipeline infrastructure. The Commission may then
order reasonable improvements under existing law to protect public
safety.

 JUSTIFICATION :

This bill would require gas corporations to produce an annual gas
safety report for the purposes of increasing transparency,
accountability, and public safety. Natural gas must be used and
delivered in the safest possible manner. An annual gas safety report
by each gas corporation will be an additional tool for the public, the
Public Service Commission, and the Legislature to ensure that every
possible effort is being made to ensure the safe delivery and use of
natural gas.

 PRIOR LEGISLATIVE HISTORY :

A.9722a of 2014 - Passed Assembly.
S.5811/A.2777 of 2015 - Passed Assembly.

 FISCAL IMPLICATIONS :

None to the state.

 EFFECTIVE DATE :
Immediately.

2017-S4715 - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   4715
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             February 24, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  BROOKS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on  Energy  and  Telecommuni-
   cations
 
 AN ACT to amend the public service law, in relation to filing gas safety
   reports
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. The public service law is amended by adding a  new  section
 66-o to read as follows:
   §  66-O.  GAS  SAFETY REPORTS. 1. ON OR BEFORE MARCH FIFTEENTH OF EACH
 YEAR, EACH GAS CORPORATION SHALL FILE WITH THE DEPARTMENT A  GAS  SAFETY
 REPORT.  THE  DEPARTMENT  SHALL  REVIEW  THE REPORTS TO MONITOR EACH GAS
 CORPORATION'S PIPELINE REPLACEMENT PROJECTS  AND  ALL  OTHER  ACTIVITIES
 RELATED TO PROVIDING SAFE AND RELIABLE GAS SERVICE IN ORDER TO DETERMINE
 WHETHER  THE  PROJECTS  OR  ACTIVITIES ARE BEING CARRIED OUT IN A MANNER
 CONSISTENT WITH THIS CHAPTER, THE COMMISSION'S  RULES,  REGULATIONS  AND
 ORDERS,  AND  ANY  PRACTICE  THE DEPARTMENT HAS DEEMED NECESSARY FOR THE
 PROVISION OF SAFE AND RELIABLE SERVICE, AND TO TRACK HOW EACH GAS CORPO-
 RATION IS SPENDING ANY FUNDS ALLOCATED FOR PIPELINE REPLACEMENT PROJECTS
 AND ALL OTHER ACTIVITIES RELATED TO  PROVIDING  SAFE  AND  RELIABLE  GAS
 SERVICE.
   2.  THE  GAS  SAFETY  REPORT  PROVIDED  FOR IN SUBDIVISION ONE OF THIS
 SECTION SHALL INCLUDE A THOROUGH  DESCRIPTION  AND  EXPLANATION  OF  THE
 STRATEGIC PLANNING AND DECISION-MAKING METHODOLOGY USED TO DETERMINE AND
 PRIORITIZE  PIPELINE  REPLACEMENT  PROJECTS, A DESCRIPTION OF THE CORPO-
 RATION'S OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE ACTIVITIES RELATED TO GAS  SAFETY,  A
 DESCRIPTION  OF  THE  CORPORATION'S INSPECTIONS OF ITS INTRASTATE TRANS-
 MISSION AND DISTRIBUTION LINES, AND ANY OTHER INFORMATION THE DEPARTMENT
 MAY REQUIRE. IF THERE HAS BEEN NO SUBSTANTIAL CHANGE  IN  A  GAS  CORPO-
 RATION'S  SAFETY  REPORT SINCE THE GAS SAFETY REPORT MOST RECENTLY FILED
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD02147-01-7

 S. 4715                             2
 
 WITH THE DEPARTMENT, THE CORPORATION, WITH CONSENT  OF  THE  DEPARTMENT,
 MAY FILE AN UPDATED VERSION OF SUCH REPORT.
   2-A. A GAS CORPORATION SHALL ALSO INCLUDE WITH ITS GAS SAFETY REPORT A
 LIST  OF  PIPELINE  REPLACEMENT  PROJECTS COMPLETED BY A GAS CORPORATION
 WITHIN THE LAST YEAR; SUCH  LIST  SHALL  INDICATE  WHICH  PROJECTS  WERE
 COMPLETED  WITH  A  GAS  CORPORATION'S  OWN  EMPLOYEES  AND  WHICH  WERE
 COMPLETED BY CONTRACTORS. THE COMMISSION MAY ALSO  ORDER  A  GAS  CORPO-
 RATION TO SUBMIT AN INDEPENDENT COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS WHICH EXAMINES THE
 GAS CORPORATION'S USE OF ITS OWN EMPLOYEES AND ITS USE OF CONTRACTORS TO
 COMPLETE PIPELINE REPLACEMENT PROJECTS.
   3.  IF  THE  DEPARTMENT DETERMINES THAT THERE IS A DEFICIENCY IN A GAS
 CORPORATION'S PRIORITIZATION OR ADMINISTRATION OF ITS PIPELINE  REPLACE-
 MENT  PROJECTS  OR  OPERATION  AND MAINTENANCE ACTIVITIES RELATED TO GAS
 SAFETY, THE DEPARTMENT SHALL NOTIFY THE COMMISSION AT THE NEXT SCHEDULED
 PUBLIC SESSION AND SHALL PROVIDE A BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF  THE  FACTS  AND
 NATURE  OF  THE DEFICIENCY. THE COMMISSION MAY ORDER REASONABLE IMPROVE-
 MENTS THAT WILL BEST PROMOTE THE PUBLIC INTEREST,  PRESERVE  THE  PUBLIC
 HEALTH  AND PROTECT THOSE USING GAS PURSUANT TO THOSE POWERS PROVIDED TO
 THE COMMISSION AS PROVIDED IN THIS CHAPTER, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO
 THOSE IN SECTION SIXTY-SIX OF THIS ARTICLE.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

co-Sponsors

2017-S4715A (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:: Senate Energy And Telecommunications
Law Section:: Public Service Law
Laws Affected:: Add §66-o, Pub Serv L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:: 2015-2016: S5811
2019-2020: S1683
2021-2022: S1380

2017-S4715A (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to requiring gas corporations to file annual gas safety reports.

2017-S4715A (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

                                
 
BILL NUMBER: S4715A

SPONSOR: BROOKS
 
TITLE OF BILL:  An act to amend the public service law, in relation to
filing gas safety reports

 
PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL:

To increase gas safety and promote the public interest.

 
SUMMARY OF SPECIFIC PROVISIONS:

* Paragraph one creates the requirement that each gas corporation must
file an annual gas safety report with Department of Public Service. The
Department would review to ensure each gas corporation is complying with
Public Service Law, the Commission's rules, regulations, and orders, and
any practice the Department has deemed necessary for providing safe and
reliable service.

* Paragraph two sets the requirements for the gas safety report which
shall include a thorough description and explanation of the strategic

planning and decision-making methodology used to determine and prior-
itize pipeline replacement projects, a description of the corporation's
operations and maintenance activities related to gas safety, and a
description of its inspection policies relating to its pipeline infras-
tructure. It also requires a gas corporation to submit a list of pipe-
line replacement projects completed by a gas corporation within the last
year and to indicate which were completed by employees of the gas corpo-
ration and which were completed by contractors. The Commission is also
authorized to order a cost benefit analysis to further examine this
practice.

* Paragraph three requires the Department to notify the Commission of
any deficiencies in a gas corporation's prioritization of projects or
administration of its pipeline infrastructure. The Commission may then
order reasonable improvements under existing law to protect public safe-
ty.

 
JUSTIFICATION:

This bill would require gas corporations to produce an annual gas safety
report for the purposes of increasing transparency, accountability, and
public safety. Natural gas must be used and delivered in the safest
possible manner. An annual gas safety report by each gas corporation
will be an additional tool for the public, the Public Service Commis-
sion, and the Legislature to ensure that every possible effort is being
made to ensure the safe delivery and use of natural gas.

 
PRIOR LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:

A.9722a of 2014 - Passed Assembly.
S.5811/A.2777 of 2015 - Passed Assembly.

 
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:

None to the state.

 
EFFECTIVE DATE:
Immediately.

2017-S4715A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                  4715--A
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             February 24, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by Sens. BROOKS, BAILEY, DILAN, HOYLMAN, PARKER -- read twice
   and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee
   on  Energy  and  Telecommunications -- recommitted to the Committee on
   Energy and Telecommunications in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8
   -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered  reprinted  as  amended
   and recommitted to said committee
 
 AN ACT to amend the public service law, in relation to filing gas safety
   reports
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. The public service law is amended by adding a  new  section
 66-p to read as follows:
   §  66-P.  GAS  SAFETY REPORTS. 1. ON OR BEFORE MARCH FIFTEENTH OF EACH
 YEAR, EACH GAS CORPORATION SHALL FILE WITH THE DEPARTMENT A  GAS  SAFETY
 REPORT.  THE  DEPARTMENT  SHALL  REVIEW  THE REPORTS TO MONITOR EACH GAS
 CORPORATION'S PIPELINE REPLACEMENT PROJECTS  AND  ALL  OTHER  ACTIVITIES
 RELATED TO PROVIDING SAFE AND RELIABLE GAS SERVICE IN ORDER TO DETERMINE
 WHETHER  THE  PROJECTS  OR  ACTIVITIES ARE BEING CARRIED OUT IN A MANNER
 CONSISTENT WITH THIS CHAPTER, THE COMMISSION'S  RULES,  REGULATIONS  AND
 ORDERS,  AND  ANY  PRACTICE  THE DEPARTMENT HAS DEEMED NECESSARY FOR THE
 PROVISION OF SAFE AND RELIABLE SERVICE, AND TO TRACK HOW EACH GAS CORPO-
 RATION IS SPENDING ANY FUNDS ALLOCATED FOR PIPELINE REPLACEMENT PROJECTS
 AND ALL OTHER ACTIVITIES RELATED TO  PROVIDING  SAFE  AND  RELIABLE  GAS
 SERVICE.
   2.  THE  GAS  SAFETY  REPORT  PROVIDED  FOR IN SUBDIVISION ONE OF THIS
 SECTION SHALL INCLUDE A THOROUGH  DESCRIPTION  AND  EXPLANATION  OF  THE
 STRATEGIC PLANNING AND DECISION-MAKING METHODOLOGY USED TO DETERMINE AND
 PRIORITIZE  PIPELINE  REPLACEMENT  PROJECTS, A DESCRIPTION OF THE CORPO-
 RATION'S OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE ACTIVITIES RELATED TO GAS  SAFETY,  A
 DESCRIPTION  OF  THE  CORPORATION'S INSPECTIONS OF ITS INTRASTATE TRANS-
 MISSION AND DISTRIBUTION LINES, AND ANY OTHER INFORMATION THE DEPARTMENT
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.

                                                            LBD02147-03-8

 S. 4715--A                          2
 
 MAY REQUIRE. IF THERE HAS BEEN NO SUBSTANTIAL CHANGE  IN  A  GAS  CORPO-
 RATION'S  SAFETY  REPORT SINCE THE GAS SAFETY REPORT MOST RECENTLY FILED
 WITH THE DEPARTMENT, THE CORPORATION, WITH CONSENT  OF  THE  DEPARTMENT,
 MAY FILE AN UPDATED VERSION OF SUCH REPORT.
   2-A. A GAS CORPORATION SHALL ALSO INCLUDE WITH ITS GAS SAFETY REPORT A
 LIST  OF  PIPELINE  REPLACEMENT  PROJECTS COMPLETED BY A GAS CORPORATION
 WITHIN THE LAST YEAR; SUCH  LIST  SHALL  INDICATE  WHICH  PROJECTS  WERE
 COMPLETED  WITH  A  GAS  CORPORATION'S  OWN  EMPLOYEES  AND  WHICH  WERE
 COMPLETED BY CONTRACTORS. THE COMMISSION MAY ALSO  ORDER  A  GAS  CORPO-
 RATION TO SUBMIT AN INDEPENDENT COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS WHICH EXAMINES THE
 GAS CORPORATION'S USE OF ITS OWN EMPLOYEES AND ITS USE OF CONTRACTORS TO
 COMPLETE PIPELINE REPLACEMENT PROJECTS.
   3.  IF  THE  DEPARTMENT DETERMINES THAT THERE IS A DEFICIENCY IN A GAS
 CORPORATION'S PRIORITIZATION OR ADMINISTRATION OF ITS PIPELINE  REPLACE-
 MENT  PROJECTS  OR  OPERATION  AND MAINTENANCE ACTIVITIES RELATED TO GAS
 SAFETY, THE DEPARTMENT SHALL NOTIFY THE COMMISSION AT THE NEXT SCHEDULED
 PUBLIC SESSION AND SHALL PROVIDE A BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF  THE  FACTS  AND
 NATURE  OF  THE DEFICIENCY. THE COMMISSION MAY ORDER REASONABLE IMPROVE-
 MENTS THAT WILL BEST PROMOTE THE PUBLIC INTEREST,  PRESERVE  THE  PUBLIC
 HEALTH  AND PROTECT THOSE USING GAS PURSUANT TO THOSE POWERS PROVIDED TO
 THE COMMISSION AS PROVIDED IN THIS CHAPTER, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO
 THOSE IN SECTION SIXTY-SIX OF THIS ARTICLE.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

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Senate Bill S4715

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Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Energy And Telecommunications Committee

Bill Amendments

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2017-S4715 - Details

2017-S4715 - Summary

2017-S4715 - Sponsor Memo

2017-S4715 - Bill Text download pdf

co-Sponsors

2017-S4715A (ACTIVE) - Details

2017-S4715A (ACTIVE) - Summary

2017-S4715A (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2017-S4715A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

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2017-S4715 - Details

2017-S4715 - Summary

2017-S4715 - Sponsor Memo

2017-S4715 - Bill Text download pdf

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2017-S4715A (ACTIVE) - Details

2017-S4715A (ACTIVE) - Summary

2017-S4715A (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2017-S4715A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

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