Bill Text: NY A03248 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Prohibits the location of certain wind electric generation facilities within forty miles of an airfield or airbase under jurisdiction of any federal military department.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 4-2)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to energy [A03248 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A03248-Introduced.html


                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
                                          3248
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 29, 2019
                                       ___________
        Introduced by M. of A. NORRIS -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Energy
        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  public  service law, in relation to location of
          certain wind electric generation facilities
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1. Section 168 of the public service law is amended by adding
     2  a new subdivision 3-a to read as follows:
     3    3-a. The board may not grant a certificate  for  the  construction  or
     4  operation  of  a  wind electric generation facility to be located within
     5  forty miles of an airfield or airbase under jurisdiction of any  federal
     6  military department which is in active use.
     7    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD02489-01-9
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