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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6336--A
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
May 11, 2017
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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 -- recommitted to the Committee on Energy and Telecommuni-
cations 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, 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 nineteen, the board shall
4 undertake to study the overall reliability of the state's supply of
5 natural gas. The board shall contract with an independent and competi-
6 tively selected contractor with experience in natural gas to undertake
7 such study. The board shall prepare a report on such study's findings
8 and legislative recommendations. The board shall transmit such report
9 along with the reliability study to the governor, the speaker of the
10 assembly, the temporary president of the senate, the chair of the assem-
11 bly energy committee and the chair of the senate energy and telecommuni-
12 cations committee. The foregoing study shall include an assessment of
13 the following:
14 (a) the need for additional transmission of natural gas in the state
15 and to states in New England;
16 (b) the integrity and impacts of new natural gas infrastructure as it
17 relates to the environment;
18 (c) the consequences to existing natural gas customers in the state of
19 constraints in the natural gas delivery system;
20 (d) the economic demand for additional natural gas from residential,
21 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.
