Senate Bill S691

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Establishes the power authority of the state of New York shall make low cost hydropower available to certain hospitals

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Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Energy And Telecommunications Committee


  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2017-S691 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A5602
Current Committee:
Senate Energy And Telecommunications
Law Section:
Public Authorities Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §1005, Pub Auth L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: A925
2011-2012: A5134
2013-2014: A4130
2015-2016: S4414, A3780
2019-2020: S5176, A4610
2021-2022: S3652, A5822
2023-2024: S1311, A2219

2017-S691 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Establishes the power authority of the state of New York shall make low cost hydropower available to hospitals located within the counties of Niagara and Orleans.

2017-S691 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2017-S691 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                    691
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              January 4, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  ORTT  --  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 establishing
   the power authority of the state of  New  York  shall  make  low  cost
   hydropower available to certain hospitals

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. The opening paragraph of subdivision 13 of section 1005  of
 the  public  authorities  law,  as amended by chapter 645 of the laws of
 2006, is amended to read as follows:
   Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary but subject
 to the terms and conditions  of  federal  energy  regulatory  commission
 licenses,  to allocate or reallocate directly or by sale for resale, two
 hundred fifty megawatts of firm Niagara project hydroelectric  power  as
 "expansion  power" and four hundred forty-five megawatts of firm Niagara
 project hydroelectric power as "replacement power" to businesses  within
 the  state  located within thirty miles of the Niagara project, and four
 hundred ninety megawatts of firm and interruptible power from the  Saint
 Lawrence-FDR  project as "preservation power" sold to businesses located
 within the counties of Jefferson, Saint Lawrence and Franklin,  provided
 that the amount of expansion power allocated to businesses in Chautauqua
 county on January first, nineteen hundred eighty-seven shall continue to
 be  allocated  in  such  county and, provided further that up to seventy
 megawatts of replacement power, up to thirty-eight and six-tenths  mega-
 watts of preservation power from the Saint Lawrence-FDR project which is
 relinquished  or  withdrawn  after  the  effective date of chapter three
 hundred thirteen of the laws of two thousand  five  which  amended  this
 subdivision  and,  for  the  period ending on December thirty-first, two
 thousand six, up to twenty megawatts  of  other  power  from  the  Saint
 Lawrence-FDR  project  which  is unallocated as of the effective date of

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

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