Assembly Bill A8795

Signed By Governor
2021-2022 Legislative Session

Directs the New York state department of public service to study the feasibility and the costs of relocating underground certain utility lines

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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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2021-A8795 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S7722
Law Section:
Public Services
Laws Affected:
Amd §§1 & 2, Chap of 2021 (as proposed in S.4186-A & A.2330-A)

2021-A8795 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Directs the New York state department of public service to study the feasibility and the costs of relocating underground all or most of the existing, above-ground electrical distribution lines, telephone lines and internet transmission lines.

2021-A8795 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   8795
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 12, 2022
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. JACOBSON -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend  a  chapter  of the laws of 2021 directing the public
   service commission to study the feasibility and the costs  of  burying
   all  or  most  of  the electrical, telephone and internet transmission
   lines in New York state and to publish and deliver  a  report  of  its
   findings  to the governor and the legislature, and requiring new elec-
   trical, telephone and internet transmission lines to be buried  under-
   ground,  as  proposed  in  legislative  bills numbers S. 4186-A and A.
   2330-A, in relation to directing the  New  York  state  department  of
   public  service  to  study the feasibility and the costs of relocating
   underground all or  most  of  the  existing,  above-ground  electrical
   distribution lines, telephone lines and internet transmission lines
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Sections 1 and 2 of a chapter of the laws of 2021 directing
 the public service commission to study the feasibility and the costs  of
 burying  all  or  most  of the electrical, telephone and internet trans-
 mission lines in New York state and to publish and deliver a  report  of
 its  findings  to  the  governor  and the legislature, and requiring new
 electrical, telephone and  internet  transmission  lines  to  be  buried
 underground,  as  proposed in legislative bills numbers S.4186-A and  A.
 2330-A, are amended to read as follows:
   Section 1. [1. The public service commission shall conduct a study  to
 analyze the feasibility and the costs of burying underground all or most
 of the existing electrical, telephone and internet transmission lines in
 New York state. Such study shall include an analysis of:
   (a) the economic and environmental benefits from burying such existing
 lines; and
   (b)  the  economic cost burden of doing so, if any, including an esti-
 mate of what the cost per utility customer would be, the number of  jobs
 to  be  created to complete the project and a timeline for completion of
 the project.

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD05957-05-2
              

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