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                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 19, 2023
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 Introduced  by  Sen.  PARKER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules
 
 AN ACT to amend the public service law, in  relation  to  requiring  gas
   corporations to file gas safety reports
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 66-s of the public service law, as added by a chap-
 ter of the laws of 2022 amending the  public  service  law  relating  to
 filing  gas  safety reports, as proposed in legislative bills numbers S.
 1380-A and A. 129-A,  is renumbered section 66-u and amended to read  as
 follows:
   §  66-u.  Gas  safety reports. 1. On or before [March fifteenth] APRIL
 THIRTIETH of each year, each gas corporation shall file with the depart-
 ment a gas safety report. The department shall  review  the  reports  to
 monitor  each  gas  corporation's  pipeline replacement projects and all
 other activities related to providing safe and reliable gas  service  in
 order  to determine whether the projects or activities are being carried
 out in a manner consistent with this chapter,  the  commission's  rules,
 regulations  and  orders,  and  any  practice  the department has deemed
 necessary for the provision of safe and reliable service, and  to  track
 how  each  gas  corporation is spending any funds allocated for pipeline
 replacement projects and all other activities related to providing  safe
 and reliable gas service.
   2.  The  gas  safety  report  provided  for in subdivision one of this
 section shall include a thorough  description  and  explanation  of  the
 strategic planning and decision-making methodology used to determine and
 prioritize  pipeline  replacement  projects, a description of the corpo-
 ration's operation and maintenance activities related to gas  safety,  a
 description  of  the  corporation's inspections of its intrastate trans-
 mission and distribution lines, LEAK REPAIR INFORMATION, and  any  other
 information the department may require. If there has been no substantial
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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 change  in a gas corporation's safety report since the gas safety report
 most recently filed with the department, the corporation,  with  consent
 of the department, may file an updated version of such report.
   2-a. A gas corporation shall also include with its gas safety report a
 list  of  pipeline  replacement  projects completed by a gas corporation
 within the last year[; such list  shall  indicate  which  projects  were
 completed  with  a  gas  corporation's  own  employees  and  which  were
 completed by contractors. The commission may also  order  a  gas  corpo-
 ration to submit an independent cost benefit analysis which examines the
 gas corporation's use of its own employees and its use of contractors to
 complete pipeline replacement projects].
   3.  [If  the  department  determines that there is] THE COMMISSION MAY
 TAKE ANY ACTION TO ADDRESS AND/OR PREVENT a deficiency in a  gas  corpo-
 ration's  prioritization  or  administration of its pipeline replacement
 projects or operation and maintenance activities related to gas  safety,
 [the department shall notify the commission at the next scheduled public
 session and shall provide a brief description of the facts and nature of
 the  deficiency. The commission may order] INCLUDING ORDERING reasonable
 improvements that will best promote the public  interest,  preserve  the
 public  health  and  protect  those  using  gas pursuant to those powers
 provided to the commission as provided in this  chapter,  including  but
 not limited to those in section sixty-six of this article.
   §  2.  This  act  shall  take  effect on the same date and in the same
 manner as a chapter of the laws of 2022 amending the public service  law
 relating  to filing gas safety reports, as proposed in legislative bills
 numbers S.  1380-A and A. 129-A, takes effect.