Senate Bill S1435

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Relates to the siting of major electric generating 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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2019-S1435 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A5236
Current Committee:
Senate Energy And Telecommunications
Law Section:
Public Service Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§160 & 161, Pub Serv L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2017-2018: S7784, A10397
2021-2022: S2672

2019-S1435 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides that the United States department of defense may appoint an eighth ad hoc member to the New York state board on electric generation siting and the environment, if a proposed electric generating facility is within seventy-five miles of an in-state military base.

2019-S1435 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2019-S1435 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   1435
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 14, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by Sens. RITCHIE, AKSHAR, BOYLE, HELMING, ORTT, RANZENHOFER,
   ROBACH, SAVINO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed  to
   be committed to the Committee on Energy and Telecommunications
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend  the public service law, in relation to the siting of
   major electric generating facilities

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1. Subdivision 4 of section 160 of the public service law, as
 added by chapter 388 of the laws of 2011, is amended to read as follows:
   4. "Board" means the New  York  state  board  on  electric  generation
 siting and the environment, which shall be in the department and consist
 of  seven persons: the chair of the department, who shall serve as chair
 of the  board;  the  commissioner  of  environmental  conservation;  the
 commissioner  of health; the chair of the New York state energy research
 and development authority; the commissioner of economic development  and
 two  ad hoc public members, both of whom shall reside within the munici-
 pality in which the facility is proposed to be located, except  if  such
 facility is proposed to be located within the city of New York, then all
 ad  hoc  members shall reside within the community district in which the
 facility is proposed to be located. One ad hoc member shall be appointed
 by the president pro tem of the senate and one ad hoc  member  shall  be
 appointed by the speaker of the assembly, in accordance with subdivision
 two of section one hundred sixty-one of this article. The term of the ad
 hoc public members shall continue until a final determination is made in
 the  particular  proceeding  for  which  they were appointed.   PROVIDED
 HOWEVER, IF A PROPOSED FACILITY IS TO  BE  LOCATED  WITHIN  SEVENTY-FIVE
 MILES  OF  AN  IN-STATE  MILITARY  BASE, THE UNITES STATES DEPARTMENT OF
 DEFENSE MAY APPOINT AN EIGHTH NON-VOTING, AD HOC MEMBER WHOSE TERM SHALL
 CONTINUE UNTIL A FINAL DETERMINATION IS MADE IN THE PARTICULAR  PROCEED-
 ING FOR WHICH THEY WERE APPOINTED.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD05028-01-9
              

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