Provides that, prior to granting a certificate for the construction of an electric transmission line facility, the public service commission must find that the facility conforms to the most recent state energy plan and consider whether approval of the facility would cause adverse impacts on the state's environmental quality due to electric generation.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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2985
2021-2022 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 26, 2021
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Introduced by Sen. PARKER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Energy and Telecommuni-
cations
AN ACT to amend the public service law, in relation to approval of elec-
tric transmission line facilities
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraph (e) of subdivision 1 of section 126 of the public
2 service law, as amended by chapter 521 of the laws of 2015, is amended
3 to read as follows:
4 (e) in the case of an electric transmission line, (1) what part, if
5 any, of the line shall be located underground; (2) that such facility
6 conforms to [a long-range plan for expansion of the electric power grid
7 of the electric systems serving this state and interconnected utility
8 systems, which will serve the interests of electric system economy and
9 reliability] the most recent state energy plan as established pursuant
10 to article six of the energy law, with consideration of whether the
11 approval of such facility would cause adverse impacts on the state's
12 environmental quality due to an increase in in-state or out-of-state
13 electric generation;
14 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD01314-01-1
