Amd §1-103, add §5-129, Energy L; amd §354, Pub Auth L
Enacts the "electric super highway act of 2018", requiring alternative fuels to be available for public use along the New York state thruway after November 1, 2018 and providing each recommended alternative fuel at least every one hundred twenty miles on both sides of the thruway; defines "alternative fuel".
STATE OF NEW YORK
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2239--A
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 12, 2017
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Introduced by Sens. PARKER, BAILEY, DILAN, MONTGOMERY -- read twice and
ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on
Energy and Telecommunications -- recommitted to the Committee on Ener-
gy 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 energy law and the public authorities law, in
relation to the availability of alternative fuels along the New York
state thruway
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. This act shall be known and may be cited as the "electric
2 super highway act of 2018".
3 § 2. Section 1-103 of the energy law is amended by adding a new subdi-
4 vision 14 to read as follows:
5 14. "Alternative fuel" shall mean ethanol, methanol, natural gas,
6 propane, electricity (including electricity from solar energy), hydro-
7 gen, and any other fuel identified which is substantially not petrole-
8 um-based, which is consistent with the goals of protecting the safety
9 and health of the public and minimizing emissions of air pollutants, and
10 which is consistent with any applicable federal alternative fuel
11 requirements.
12 § 3. The energy law is amended by adding a new section 5-129 to read
13 as follows:
14 § 5-129. Alternative fuels. State energy research and development
15 authority shall provide the New York state thruway authority with a list
16 of the most feasible alternative fuels, which shall number no fewer than
17 three, and assist the authority in implementing the requirements of
18 section three hundred fifty-four of the public authorities law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 § 4. Subdivision 10 of section 354 of the public authorities law, as
2 amended by section 2 of part TT of chapter 54 of the laws of 2016, is
3 amended to read as follows:
4 10. To construct, reconstruct or improve on or along the thruway in
5 the manner herein provided, suitable facilities for gas stations,
6 restaurants, and other facilities for the public, or to lease the right
7 to construct, reconstruct or improve and operate such facilities; such
8 facilities shall be publicly offered for leasing for operation, or the
9 right to construct, reconstruct or improve and operate such facilities
10 shall be publicly offered under rules and regulations to be established
11 by the authority, provided, however, that lessees operating such facili-
12 ties at the time this act becomes effective, may reconstruct or improve
13 them or may construct additional like facilities, in the manner and upon
14 such terms and conditions as the board shall determine; and provided
15 further, however, that each such facility which contains or consists of
16 a gas station shall, beginning November first, two thousand eighteen,
17 include a facility for selling to the public an alternative fuel, as
18 defined in section 1-103 of the energy law and each alternative fuel
19 recommended to the authority by the New York state energy research and
20 development authority pursuant to section 5-129 of the energy law shall
21 be made available at intervals of no more than one hundred twenty miles
22 on each side of the thruway;
23 § 5. This act shall take effect immediately.
