Senate Bill S1767

                            
 
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                                   1767
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 10, 2017
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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, the United
 States, other public corporations and electric corporations  within  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
 of the state comptroller and (iv) transmission facilities shall  not  be

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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 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, clean ener-
 gy 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.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.