Bill Text: NY A05355 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Expands the definition of major utility transmission facility to include a facility in which electric current is transformed from the transmission system to the distribution system or a facility within the distribution system that is larger than five hundred square feet and in which electric current is transformed.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-01-08 - referred to corporations, authorities and commissions [A05355 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-A05355-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         5355
                              2013-2014 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                   February 25, 2013
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       Introduced  by  M.  of A. GOTTFRIED, DINOWITZ, JACOBS, MILLMAN -- Multi-
         Sponsored by -- M. of A.   COLTON, GLICK, ROBINSON,  RUSSELL  --  read
         once  and  referred  to the Committee on Corporations, Authorities and
         Commissions
       AN ACT to amend the public service law, in relation  to  the  siting  of
         electric substations
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 120 of the public service law,  as
    2  amended  by  chapter  538  of  the  laws  of 1981, is amended to read as
    3  follows:
    4    2. "Major utility transmission facility" means: (a) an electric trans-
    5  mission line of a design capacity of one hundred  twenty-five  kilovolts
    6  or  more  extending  a  distance  of one mile or more, or of one hundred
    7  kilovolts or more and  less  than  one  hundred  twenty-five  kilovolts,
    8  extending  a  distance of ten miles or more, including associated equip-
    9  ment, but shall not include any such transmission  line  located  wholly
   10  underground  in  a city with a population in excess of one hundred twen-
   11  ty-five thousand or a primary transmission line approved by the  federal
   12  energy regulatory commission in connection with a hydro-electric facili-
   13  ty;  [and]  (b) a fuel gas transmission line extending a distance of one
   14  thousand feet or more to be used to transport fuel gas at  pressures  of
   15  one hundred twenty-five pounds per square inch or more, excluding appur-
   16  tenant  facilities,  but  shall  not  include any such transmission line
   17  which is located wholly underground in a city or wholly within the right
   18  of way of a state, county or town highway or  village  street  as  those
   19  terms  are  defined in article one of the highway law and article six of
   20  the village law,  or  which  replaces  an  existing  transmission  line,
   21  including  appurtenant  facilities,  and extends a distance of less than
   22  one mile; AND (C) A FACILITY IN WHICH ELECTRIC  CURRENT  IS  TRANSFORMED
   23  FROM  THE  TRANSMISSION  SYSTEM TO THE DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM OR A FACILITY
   24  WITHIN THE DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM THAT IS LARGER THAN FIVE  HUNDRED  SQUARE
   25  FEET AND IN WHICH ELECTRIC CURRENT IS TRANSFORMED.
   26    S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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