STATE OF NEW YORK
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8545
2015-2016 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
October 30, 2015
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Introduced by M. of A. CORWIN -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Energy
AN ACT to amend the public service law, in relation to increasing the
number of ad hoc members on the New York state board on electric
generation siting and the environment
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 161 of the public service law, as
2 added by chapter 388 of the laws of 2011, is amended to read as follows:
3 2. Upon receipt of a pre-application preliminary scoping statement
4 under this article, the chair shall promptly notify the governor, the
5 president pro tem of the senate, the speaker of the assembly, the chief
6 executive officers representing the municipality and the county in which
7 the facility is proposed to be located, and, if such facility is
8 proposed to be located within the city of New York, the mayor of the
9 city of New York, as well as the chairperson of the community board and
10 the borough president representing the area in which the facility is
11 proposed to be located. [One] Two ad hoc [member] members shall be
12 appointed by the president pro tem of the senate and [one] two ad hoc
13 [member] members shall be appointed by the speaker of the assembly from
14 a list of candidates submitted to them, in the following manner. If such
15 facility is proposed to be located outside of the city of New York, the
16 chief executive officer representing the municipality shall nominate
17 four candidates and the chief executive officer representing the county
18 shall nominate four candidates for consideration. If such facility is
19 proposed to be located outside of the city of New York and in a village
20 located within a town, the chief executive officer representing the town
21 shall nominate four candidates, the chief executive officer representing
22 the county shall nominate four candidates, and the chief executive offi-
23 cer representing the village shall nominate four candidates for consid-
24 eration. If such facility is proposed to be located in the city of New
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 York, the chairperson of the community board, the borough president, and
2 the mayor of the city of New York shall each nominate four candidates
3 for consideration. Nominations shall be submitted to the president pro
4 tem of the senate and the speaker of the assembly within fifteen days of
5 receipt of notification of the pre-application preliminary scoping
6 statement. In the event that the president pro tem of the senate does
7 not appoint [one] two of the candidates within [thirty] sixty days of
8 such nominations, the governor shall appoint the ad hoc [member] members
9 from the list of candidates. In the event that the speaker of the assem-
10 bly does not appoint [one] two of the candidates within [thirty] sixty
11 days of such nominations, the governor shall appoint the ad hoc [member]
12 members from the list of candidates. [In the event that one or both of
13 the ad hoc public members have not been appointed within forty-five
14 days, a majority of persons named to the board shall constitute a
15 quorum] The board shall not have a quorum without the appointment of all
16 four ad hoc members.
17 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
