Bill Text: NY A10078 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Enacts the "electric super highway act", requiring alternative fuels to be available for public use along the New York state thruway after November 1, 2024 and providing each recommended alternative fuel at least every one hundred twenty miles on both sides of the thruway; defines "alternative fuel".

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-05-03 - referred to energy [A10078 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A10078-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          10078

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                       May 3, 2024
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  CUNNINGHAM  -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Energy

        AN ACT to amend the energy  law  and  the  public  authorities  law,  in
          relation  to  the availability of alternative fuels along the New York
          state thruway

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1.  Short  title. This act shall be known and may be cited as
     2  the "electric super highway act".
     3    § 2. Section 1-103 of the energy law is amended by adding a new subdi-
     4  vision 16 to read as follows:
     5    16. "Alternative fuel" shall  mean  ethanol,  methanol,  natural  gas,
     6  propane,  electricity  (including electricity from solar energy), hydro-
     7  gen, and any other fuel identified which is substantially  not  petrole-
     8  um-based,  which  is  consistent with the goals of protecting the safety
     9  and health of the public and minimizing emissions of air pollutants, and
    10  which  is  consistent  with  any  applicable  federal  alternative  fuel
    11  requirements.
    12    §  3.  The energy law is amended by adding a new section 5-129 to read
    13  as follows:
    14    § 5-129. Alternative fuels.  The New York state  energy  research  and
    15  development authority shall provide the New York state thruway authority
    16  with  a  list of the most feasible alternative fuels, which shall number
    17  no fewer than three,  and  assist  the  authority  in  implementing  the
    18  requirements  of section three hundred fifty-four of the public authori-
    19  ties law.
    20    § 4. Subdivision 10 of section 354 of the public authorities  law,  as
    21  amended  by  section  2 of part TT of chapter 54 of the laws of 2016, is
    22  amended to read as follows:
    23    10. To construct, reconstruct or improve on or along  the  thruway  in
    24  the  manner  herein  provided,  suitable  facilities  for  gas stations,
    25  restaurants, and other facilities for the public, or to lease the  right
    26  to  construct,  reconstruct or improve and operate such facilities; such
    27  facilities shall be publicly offered for leasing for operation,  or  the

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  right  to  construct, reconstruct or improve and operate such facilities
     2  shall be publicly offered under rules and regulations to be  established
     3  by the authority, provided, however, that lessees operating such facili-
     4  ties  at the time this act becomes effective, may reconstruct or improve
     5  them or may construct additional like facilities, in the manner and upon
     6  such terms and conditions as the board  shall  determine;  and  provided
     7  further,  however, that each such facility which contains or consists of
     8  a gas station shall, beginning November first, two thousand twenty-four,
     9  include a facility for selling to the public  an  alternative  fuel,  as
    10  defined  in  section  1-103  of the energy law and each alternative fuel
    11  recommended to the authority by the New York state energy  research  and
    12  development  authority pursuant to section 5-129 of the energy law shall
    13  be made available at intervals of no more than one hundred twenty  miles
    14  on each side of the thruway;
    15    § 5. This act shall take effect immediately.