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                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                                (PREFILED)
 
                              January 9, 2019
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 Introduced by M. of A. CAHILL -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Energy
 
 AN  ACT  to amend the public service law, in relation to electric trans-
   mission lines and existing or proposed generating resources

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Paragraph (e) of subdivision 1 and subdivision 2 of section
 126 of the public service law, paragraph (e) of subdivision 1 as amended
 by  chapter  521  of the laws of 2015, subdivision 2 as added by chapter
 520 of the laws of 1984, are amended to read as follows:
   (e) in the case of an electric transmission line, (1)  what  part,  if
 any,  of  the  line shall be located underground; (2) that such facility
 conforms to  a  long-range  plan  for  THE  expansion,  MAINTENANCE  AND
 IMPROVEMENT  of  the electric power grid of the electric systems serving
 [this] NEW YORK state and interconnected  utility  systems,  which  will
 serve the interests of electric system economy and reliability; (3) THAT
 SUCH  FACILITY  WILL  ACCOMMODATE  THE  INTERCONNECTION  OF  EXISTING OR
 PROPOSED GENERATING RESOURCES OR IN THE  CASE  OF  A  FACILITY  THAT  AS
 PROPOSED, HAS A DESIGN CAPACITY OF LESS THAN ONE HUNDRED KILOVOLTS, THAT
 NO ACCOMMODATION IS NECESSARY BECAUSE SUCH ACCOMMODATION WOULD NOT BE IN
 THE INTERESTS OF ELECTRIC SYSTEM ECONOMY AND RELIABILITY; AND (4) IN THE
 CASE  OF A FACILITY, THAT AS PROPOSED, WOULD TRANSMIT ELECTRICITY GENER-
 ATED FROM RESOURCES LOCATED OUTSIDE OF THE BOUNDARIES OF NEW YORK STATE,
 THAT SUCH ELECTRICITY WOULD BE PRODUCED IN A MANNER THAT  IS  CONSISTENT
 WITH  THE  POWER  PLANT  EMISSIONS AND PERFORMANCE STANDARDS ESTABLISHED
 PURSUANT TO SECTION 19-0312 OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION LAW;
   2. In the case of an electric transmission line to be  constructed  by
 the  power  authority of the state of New York and located in part under
 the waters of Long Island Sound and for the remaining part  underground,
 the  commission shall make only the findings and determinations required
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
              

                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD01984-01-9

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 by paragraphs (b), (c), (D) and (f) of subdivision one of  this  section
 and,  on  the  basis  of  such findings and determinations, shall grant,
 grant in part, or deny the certificate.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.