S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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7789
I N S E N A T E
June 18, 2012
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Introduced by Sen. MAZIARZ -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules
AN ACT directing the power authority of the state of New York to release
requests for proposals on certain natural gas powered generating
facilities in and around New York city
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. (a) The power authority of the state of New York shall
within ninety days of the effective date of this act, issue a request
for the proposals to purchase from such authority one or more of the ten
gas turbine electric generating facilities with a nameplate capacity of
less than eighty megawatts each, owned by such authority as of the
effective date of this act and located in and around the city of New
York. Such request for proposals to sell such generators shall be put
out for bid for a maximum of ninety days and shall include the following
sites and generation facilities:
(1) Two units at Harlem River Yard Plant, located in the Harlem River
Yards, at E. 132nd Street, Bronx, New York 10454;
(2) Two units at Vernon Boulevard, located at 41-98, 42-02, 42-16
Vernon Boulevard, Long Island City, Queens, New York 11101;
(3) Two units at the Hell Gate Plant, located at Locust Avenue, E.
132nd Street to E. 134th Street, Bronx, New York 10454;
(4) Two units at the Windsor Terrace Power Plant, located at 3rd
Avenue and 23rd Street, Brooklyn, New York 11232;
(5) One unit at Pouch Terminal; located at 1 Edgewater Street, Staten
Island, New York 10305; and
(6) One unit at North First Avenue and River Street, located at 47-79
River Street, Brooklyn, New York 11211.
(b) The authority shall issue such requests to determine, among other
things, the likely value to New York state for the sale of such genera-
tors. The authority shall, within thirty days of the end of the solic-
itation period, report on the range of solicited bids to the governor,
the temporary president of the senate and the speaker of the assembly,
subject to all appropriate and applicable confidentiality requirements
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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with respect to individual bids and information contained therein. The
authority shall commence actions, as the authority's board of trustees
determines appropriate and necessary, to effectuate the sale of such
facilities.
(c) The authority is authorized and directed to deposit the proceeds
of the sale of such generators into a special account to be administered
by the New York Energy Research and Development Authority for the
purposes of (i) incentivizing the repowering of load bearing electric
generating facilities that currently meet or exceed the minimum stand-
ards established in the final rule of the proposed National Emission
Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants provided that the eligible plants
agree to repower such facility and construct new or retrofit existing
electric generators, and (ii) for other associated upgrades, including
but not limited to the construction or improvement of energy related
infrastructure.
To the extent practicable, funds shall also be made available to
provide assistance to municipal corporations as defined in section 102
of the real property tax law, that have been substantially adversely
impacted by the loss of property tax revenues or the loss of revenues
from payments in lieu of taxes due to the closing of a major electric
generating facility.
S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.