STATE OF NEW YORK
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9925--A
IN ASSEMBLY
April 24, 2012
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Introduced by M. of A. CAHILL -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Energy -- reported and referred to the Committee on Ways and Means
-- reported and referred to the Committee on Rules -- Rules Committee
discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
to the Committee on Rules
AN ACT to amend the public service law, in relation to electric trans-
mission lines and existing or proposed generating resources
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraph (d) of subdivision 1 and subdivision 2 of section
2 126 of the public service law, paragraph (d) of subdivision 1 as added
3 by chapter 272 of the laws of 1970, subdivision 2 as added by chapter
4 520 of the laws of 1984, are amended to read as follows:
5 (d) in the case of an electric transmission line, (1) what part, if
6 any, of the line shall be located underground; (2) that such facility
7 conforms to a long-range plan for the expansion, maintenance and
8 improvement of the electric power grid of the electric systems serving
9 [this] New York state and interconnected utility systems, which will
10 serve the interests of electric system economy and reliability; (3) that
11 such facility will accommodate the interconnection of existing or
12 proposed generating resources or in the case of a facility that as
13 proposed, has a design capacity of less than one hundred kilovolts, that
14 no accommodation is necessary because such accommodation would not be in
15 the interests of electric system economy and reliability; and (4) in the
16 case of a facility, that as proposed, would transmit electricity gener-
17 ated from resources located outside of the boundaries of New York state,
18 that such electricity would be produced in a manner that is consistent
19 with the power plant emissions and performance standards established
20 pursuant to section 19-0312 of the environmental conservation law;
21 2. In the case of an electric transmission line to be constructed by
22 the power authority of the state of New York and located in part under
23 the waters of Long Island Sound and for the remaining part underground,
24 the commission shall make only the findings and determinations required
25 by paragraphs (b), (c), (d) and (f) of subdivision one of this section
26 and, on the basis of such findings and determinations, shall grant,
27 grant in part, or deny the certificate.
28 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD15109-07-2
