Directs the office of renewable energy, in consultation with the public service commission, to post a map on its website containing certain information about proposed major renewable energy facility sites and create an informational tab that calculates the regional impacts of such proposed sites.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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6404
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
April 18, 2023
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Introduced by Sen. HINCHEY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Energy and Telecommuni-
cations
AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to directing the office
of renewable energy siting, in consultation with the public service
commission, to create a statewide map of all proposed major renewable
energy facility sites and an informational tab that calculates
regional impacts of such proposed sites
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraph (c) of subdivision 5 of section 94-c of the exec-
2 utive law is amended by adding three new subparagraphs (iii), (iv), and
3 (v) to read as follows:
4 (iii) In addition to the information required by subparagraph (i) of
5 this paragraph, the office, in consultation with the public service
6 commission, shall post, maintain, and regularly update on its website a
7 statewide map with the location, approximate acreage, and generation
8 capacity of each approved and proposed facility pursuant to this article
9 or renewable electric generating facility pursuant to article ten of the
10 public service law for which permitted, complete, or incomplete applica-
11 tions or notices of intent have been received by the office or the
12 public service commission. Such statewide map shall include any addi-
13 tional information the office deems necessary. The information required
14 pursuant to this subparagraph shall be updated upon the completion of
15 each new or updated application for a proposed facility.
16 (iv) In addition to the information required by subparagraph (i) of
17 this paragraph, the office, in consultation with the public service
18 commission, shall create an informational tab, using previously estab-
19 lished regional economic development council regions, that calculates
20 regional impacts of renewable energy generation facilities for which
21 permitted, complete, or incomplete applications or notices of intent
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 have been received by the office or the public service commission. Such
2 impacts include, but are not limited to, total acreage of:
3 a. the proposed project;
4 b. the project's prime agricultural land and prime soils, unique farm-
5 land, and farmland of statewide or local importance, including Mineral
6 Soils Group (MSG) 1-4, as defined by the department of agriculture and
7 markets;
8 c. the project's open space, as defined by section two hundred forty-
9 seven of the general municipal law; and
10 d. the project's forest land, as defined by section 9-0101 of the
11 environmental conservation law.
12 (v) The map shall be updated immediately upon receipt of permitted,
13 complete, or incomplete applications or notices of intent for the
14 proposed project by the office or the public service commission.
15 § 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
16 have become a law; provided, however, that the amendments to paragraph
17 (c) of subdivision 5 of section 94-c of the executive law made by
18 section one of this act shall not affect the repeal of such section and
19 shall be deemed repealed therewith. Effective immediately, the addition,
20 amendment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the
21 implementation of this act on its effective date are authorized to be
22 made and completed on or before such effective date.
