Bill Text: NY S05076 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: 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.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - REFERRED TO ENERGY AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS [S05076 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S05076-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
                                          5076
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                      April 8, 2019
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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
        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 twenty, 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  and  ranking
    11  minority member of the assembly energy committee and the chair and rank-
    12  ing  minority member of the senate energy and telecommunications commit-
    13  tee. The foregoing study shall include an assessment of 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
    22    (e)  status  of  and  future  opportunities  for the implementation of
    23  natural gas expansion under public service  commission  proceedings  and
    24  the state energy plan.
    25    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD10994-02-9