Directs the state energy planning board to conduct a study of natural gas reliability and to prepare a report on the study's findings and legislative recommendations.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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4736
2021-2022 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
February 10, 2021
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Introduced by Sen. GRIFFO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Energy and Telecommuni-
cations
AN ACT to amend the energy law, in relation to directing the state ener-
gy planning board to conduct a study of natural gas reliability
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 6-108 of the energy law is amended by adding a new
2 subdivision 4 to read as follows:
3 4. On or before January first, two thousand twenty-two, the board
4 shall undertake to study the overall reliability of the state's supply
5 of natural gas. The board shall contract with an independent and
6 competitively selected contractor with experience in natural gas to
7 undertake such study. The board shall prepare a report on such study's
8 findings and legislative recommendations. The board shall transmit such
9 report along with the reliability study to the governor, the speaker of
10 the assembly, the temporary president of the senate, the chair and rank-
11 ing minority member of the assembly energy committee and the chair and
12 ranking minority member of the senate energy and telecommunications
13 committee. The foregoing study shall include an assessment of the
14 following:
15 (a) the need for additional transmission of natural gas in the state
16 and to states in New England;
17 (b) the integrity and impacts of new natural gas infrastructure as it
18 relates to the environment;
19 (c) the consequences to existing natural gas customers in the state of
20 constraints in the natural gas delivery system;
21 (d) the economic demand for additional natural gas from residential,
22 commercial, manufacturing and industrial sectors in the state; and
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 (e) status of and future opportunities for the implementation of
2 natural gas expansion under public service commission proceedings and
3 the state energy plan.
4 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
