Senate Bill S5667

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                  5667

                       2013-2014 Regular Sessions

                            I N  S E N A T E

                              June 3, 2013
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Introduced  by  Sen.  GOLDEN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
  printed to be committed to the Committee on  Energy  and  Telecommuni-
  cations

AN ACT to amend the public authorities law, in relation to adding public
  and  nonpublic elementary and secondary schools to the list of the New
  York power authority's mandated customers

  THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section  1.  The  third  undesignated paragraph of section 1005 of the
public authorities law, as amended by chapter 287 of the laws  of  2004,
is amended to read as follows:
  The  authority  is  further authorized to construct and/or acquire and
complete such base load generating, transmission and related  facilities
as  it deems necessary or desirable to assist in maintaining an adequate
and dependable supply of electricity by supplying power and  energy  for
the  metropolitan transportation authority, its subsidiary corporations,
the New York city transit authority, the port authority of New York  and
New  Jersey,  the  city  of  New York, the state of New York, PUBLIC AND
PRIVATE ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN THE STATE OF NEW  YORK,  the
United States, other public corporations and electric corporations with-
in the metropolitan area of the city of New York within the state of New
York;  provided,  however,  that  (i)  the  acquisition  of completed or
partially completed facilities shall be after public hearing  and  shall
be  limited to facilities located in New York city or Westchester county
and the energy and power generated by such facilities shall be used,  to
the extent feasible, for the benefit of electric consumers in that area,
(ii)  not  more  than  one such generating facility shall be acquired in
each of New York city and Westchester county, (iii) the price to be paid
pursuant to any agreement entered into with  respect  to  the  purchase,
appropriation  or  condemnation  of  any  such  completed  or  partially
completed facility, as the case may be, shall be subject to the approval

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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of the state comptroller and (iv) transmission facilities shall  not  be
so acquired pursuant to this paragraph unless such acquisition is neces-
sary  to  assure  delivery  of power and energy produced by any acquired
generating  facility. The authority is further authorized, to the extent
it deems it necessary or desirable, to provide power and energy,  as  it
may  determine  it  to be available, for the use by the Niagara frontier
transportation authority or its subsidiary corporation.   The  authority
is [authorized] DIRECTED to make energy efficiency services[,] AND clean
energy technologies [and, in the event that supplies of power and energy
are  determined  to  be  available  from the competitive market for this
purpose, power and energy,] available to public and nonpublic elementary
and secondary schools throughout the state.
  S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.