Senate Bill S1079

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Relates to net metering standards for municipal landfills and waste water treatment facilities

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  • 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-S1079 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A4469
Current Committee:
Senate Energy And Telecommunications
Law Section:
Public Service Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §66-j, Pub Serv L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2015-2016: S5430, A7576
2019-2020: S22

2017-S1079 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to net metering standards for municipal landfills and waste water treatment facilities.

2017-S1079 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2017-S1079 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   1079
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              January 6, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sens. VALESKY, AVELLA -- read twice and ordered printed,
   and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Energy and  Tele-
   communications
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend  the  public service law, in relation to net metering
   standards for municipal landfills and waste water treatment facilities

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  The section heading of section 66-j of the public service
 law, as amended by chapter 546 of the laws of 2011, is amended  to  read
 as follows:
   Net energy metering for residential solar, farm waste, non-residential
 solar  electric generating systems, micro-combined heat and power gener-
 ating equipment, fuel cell electric generating equipment,  [and]  micro-
 hydroelectric  generating equipment AND WASTE FUELED ELECTRIC GENERATING
 EQUIPMENT AT MUNICIPAL LANDFILLS AND PUBLICLY OWNED TREATMENT WORKS.
   § 2. Subdivision 1 of section  66-j  of  the  public  service  law  is
 amended  by  adding  three  new  paragraphs  (i), (j) and (k) to read as
 follows:
   (I) "LANDFILL" MEANS A DISPOSAL FACILITY OR PART OF A  FACILITY  WHERE
 SOLID  WASTE,  AS  DEFINED  IN 6 NYCRR 360-1.2(A)(1), IS PLACED IN OR ON
 LAND, AND WHICH IS NOT A LAND TREATMENT FACILITY, A SURFACE IMPOUNDMENT,
 OR AN INJECTION WELL, WHICH IS OWNED OR OPERATED BY A MUNICIPAL  GOVERN-
 MENT  OR  BY  A PUBLIC PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP ESTABLISHED UNDER SECTION ONE
 HUNDRED TWENTY-W OF THE GENERAL MUNICIPAL LAW.
   (J) "PUBLICLY OWNED TREATMENT WORKS" MEANS A FACILITY FOR THE  PURPOSE
 OF  TREATING, NEUTRALIZING OR STABILIZING SEWAGE, INCLUDING TREATMENT OR
 DISPOSAL PLANTS, THE NECESSARY INTERCEPTING, OUTFALL AND OUTLET  SEWERS,
 PUMPING  STATIONS  INTEGRAL  TO  SUCH  PLANTS  OR  SEWERS, EQUIPMENT AND
 FURNISHINGS THEREOF AND THEIR APPURTENANCES WHICH IS OWNED  OR  OPERATED
 BY A MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENT OR BY A PUBLIC PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP ESTABLISHED
 UNDER SECTION ONE HUNDRED TWENTY OF THE GENERAL MUNICIPAL LAW.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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