Establishes the NYS Electromagnetic Critical Infrastructure Protection Commission to study and investigate EMP threats to NYS infrastructures, gather information, make recommendations and inform local governments and agencies about the hazards of natural and man-made EMP events.
BILL NUMBER:A10953
TITLE OF BILL: An act establishing the New York state electromagnetic
pulse critical infrastructure protection commission
PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL: The purpose of this bill is to create
the New York State EMP Critical Infrastructure Protection Commission.
The Commission is charged with identifying any necessary steps that it
believes should be taken by New York State to protect its civilian
systems from an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) event.
SUMMARY OF SPECIFIC PROVISIONS: 1. Study the findings and
recommendations of the Congressional Commission to Assess the Threat
to the United States of America from Electromagnetic Pulse Attack (the
EMP Commission); the Congressional Commission on Strategic Posture of
the United States regarding EMP, the National Academy of Sciences and
the National Fire Protection Association (NEPA) and other related EMP
findings and materials that are available. 2. Analyze the feasibility
and cost of hardening civilian infrastructure systems against EMP
events, the costs impacting state and local government revenues if
infrastructures remain unprotected, and the financial benefits of
protecting the critical infrastructures. 3. Review recommendations
calling for the creation of micro-grids. 4. Identify critical
interoperable communications capabilities and determine means to keep
them operable; 5. Identify critical transformers, supervisory control
and data acquisition (SCADA) devices, and other critical components,
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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10953
I N A S S E M B L Y
May 5, 2010
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Introduced by M. of A. CORWIN -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Governmental Operations
AN ACT establishing the New York state electromagnetic pulse critical
infrastructure protection commission
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. Commission established. A commission to be known as the
New York state electromagnetic pulse critical infrastructure protection
commission, hereafter referred to as the commission, is hereby estab-
lished to identify any necessary steps that it believes should be taken
by New York state to protect its civilian systems from an electromagnet-
ic pulse (EMP) event. Such commission shall educate itself about EMP and
EMP threats and vulnerabilities to New York state's infrastructures,
gather facts as needed, make recommendations, and inform local agencies
and governments about the hazards of natural and man-made EMP events.
Furthermore, the commission shall assess the dangers from all EMP
threats and this shall include developing a plan to protect the state
from an EMP event, as well as responding to the aftermath and recovery
after such an event.
S 2. Specifically, the commission shall:
1. study the findings and recommendations of the congressional commis-
sion to assess the threat to the United States of America from electro-
magnetic pulse attack (the EMP commission); the congressional commission
on strategic posture of the United States regarding EMP, the national
academy of sciences and the national fire protection association (NFPA)
and other related EMP findings and materials that are available with
regard to the following:
(a) the vulnerability of New York state's civilian systems to natural
and man-made EMP events, giving special attention to the vulnerability
of the civilian infrastructure as a matter of emergency preparedness;
(b) identify and assess the critical infrastructure within or impact-
ing New York state that is vulnerable to EMP, whether natural or man-
made, which at a minimum will include the following:
(i) infrastructure commonality;
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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