Expands the definition of major utility transmission facility to include a facility in which electric current is transformed from the transmission system to the distribution system or a facility within the distribution system that is larger than five hundred square feet and in which electric current is transformed.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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6007
2009-2010 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 24, 2009
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Introduced by M. of A. GOTTFRIED, BENJAMIN, DINOWITZ, GIANARIS, JACOBS,
MILLMAN -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. BRADLEY, COLTON, DIAZ,
EDDINGTON, GLICK, KOON, McENENY, PHEFFER, ROBINSON, RUSSELL, TOWNS --
read once and referred to the Committee on Corporations, Authorities
and Commissions
AN ACT to amend the public service law, in relation to the siting of
electric substations
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 120 of the public service law, as
2 amended by chapter 538 of the laws of 1981, is amended to read as
3 follows:
4 2. "Major utility transmission facility" means: (a) an electric trans-
5 mission line of a design capacity of one hundred twenty-five kilovolts
6 or more extending a distance of one mile or more, or of one hundred
7 kilovolts or more and less than one hundred twenty-five kilovolts,
8 extending a distance of ten miles or more, including associated equip-
9 ment, but shall not include any such transmission line located wholly
10 underground in a city with a population in excess of one hundred twen-
11 ty-five thousand or a primary transmission line approved by the federal
12 energy regulatory commission in connection with a hydro-electric facili-
13 ty; [and] (b) a fuel gas transmission line extending a distance of one
14 thousand feet or more to be used to transport fuel gas at pressures of
15 one hundred twenty-five pounds per square inch or more, excluding appur-
16 tenant facilities, but shall not include any such transmission line
17 which is located wholly underground in a city or wholly within the right
18 of way of a state, county or town highway or village street as those
19 terms are defined in article one of the highway law and article six of
20 the village law, or which replaces an existing transmission line,
21 including appurtenant facilities, and extends a distance of less than
22 one mile; and (c) a facility in which electric current is transformed
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 from the transmission system to the distribution system or a facility
2 within the distribution system that is larger than five hundred square
3 feet and in which electric current is transformed.
4 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
