Senate Bill S2238

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Establishes a wind siting designation board

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Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Environmental Conservation Committee


  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2017-S2238 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Environmental Conservation
Law Section:
Environmental Conservation Law
Laws Affected:
Add Art 48 §48-0101, En Con L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: S7923
2011-2012: S2435
2013-2014: S849
2015-2016: S1572
2019-2020: S5008
2021-2022: S5392
2023-2024: S1202

2017-S2238 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Establishes a wind siting designation board consisting of the department of environmental conservation's nine regional planning bodies each of which will consider applications on an individual basis and may consider designating areas within a region where it shall be impermissible to site a wind farm; outlines the nine regions.

2017-S2238 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2017-S2238 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   2238
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 12, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  PARKER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Environmental Conservation
 
 AN ACT to amend the  environmental  conservation  law,  in  relation  to
   establishing a wind siting designation board
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. The environmental conservation law is amended by  adding  a
 new article 48 to read as follows:
                                ARTICLE 48
                                WIND SITING
 SECTION 48-0101. WIND SITING.
 § 48-0101. WIND SITING.
   1.  THE  WIND  SITING  DESIGNATION  BOARD IS HEREBY CREATED, AND SHALL
 CONSIST OF NINE REGIONAL PLANNING BODIES EACH OF WHICH SHALL BE  LOCATED
 WITHIN ONE OF THE DEPARTMENT'S NINE REGIONS PURSUANT TO SUBDIVISION FOUR
 OF  THIS SECTION.  EACH REGIONAL PLANNING BODY OF THE WIND SITING DESIG-
 NATION BOARD SHALL CONSIST OF THE REGIONAL DIRECTOR OF  EACH  DEPARTMENT
 OF ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION REGION WITHIN SUCH REGIONAL PLANNING BODY;
 ONE MEMBER WHO SHALL BE DESIGNATED BY THE CHAIRMAN OF THE NEW YORK POWER
 AUTHORITY  AND  WHO  SHALL  RESIDE  WITHIN THE REGIONAL PLANNING BODY TO
 WHICH SUCH PERSON IS APPOINTED; ONE MEMBER WHO SHALL  BE  DESIGNATED  BY
 THE  CHAIRMAN  OF  THE  EMPIRE  STATE  DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION WHO SHALL
 RESIDE WITHIN THE REGION THE  REGIONAL  PLANNING  BODY  REPRESENTS;  AND
 THREE  MEMBERS  FROM  A  LOCAL  GOVERNMENT  ENTITY WITHIN THE REGION THE
 REGIONAL PLANNING BODY REPRESENTS, PROVIDED,  HOWEVER,  THAT  THE  THREE
 MEMBERS  SHALL  NOT  BE  FROM  THE SAME ORIGINATING ENTITY AND THAT SUCH
 MEMBERS SHALL BE APPOINTED IN JOINT AGREEMENT BY THE REGIONAL  DIRECTOR.
 MEMBERS  OF  THE  BOARD  SHALL  SERVE FOR A TERM OF SIX YEARS; PROVIDED,
 HOWEVER, THAT IF ANY MEMBER  SHALL  DISAFFILIATE  FROM  THE  ORIGINATING
 ENTITY FROM WHICH HE OR SHE WAS APPOINTED TO THE BOARD, THEN SUCH MEMBER
 SHALL  BE  TERMINATED FROM THE BOARD AND A NEW MEMBER SHALL BE APPOINTED
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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