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Senate Bill S4408A

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Relates to agreements and easements related to renewable energy interconnection across reforestation areas

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2025-S4408 - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A10483
Law Section:
Environmental Conservation Law
Laws Affected:
Add §9-0508, En Con L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2019-2020: S6775
2021-2022: S659
2023-2024: S1918

2025-S4408 - Summary

Authorizes the department of environmental conservation to enter into agreements or easements for the sole purpose of interconnection of renewable energy installations across reforestation areas where such installations are located outside such reforestation areas; provides that such agreements or easements shall not interfere with the operation of such reforestation areas for the purposes for which they were acquired.

2025-S4408 - Sponsor Memo

2025-S4408 - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   4408
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             February 4, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  MAY  --  read  twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Environmental Conservation
 
 AN ACT to amend the  environmental  conservation  law,  in  relation  to
   agreements  related to renewable energy development rights on refores-
   tation areas

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  The environmental conservation law is amended by adding a
 new section 9-0508 to read as follows:
 § 9-0508. AGREEMENTS RELATED TO RENEWABLE ENERGY DEVELOPMENT  RIGHTS  ON
             REFORESTATION AREAS.
   NOTWITHSTANDING  ANY  PROVISIONS  OF ARTICLE SEVEN OF THE PUBLIC LANDS
 LAW TO THE CONTRARY, THE DEPARTMENT MAY, IN ANY LANDS  ACQUIRED  BY  THE
 STATE IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 9-0501 OF THIS TITLE, ENTER INTO AGREE-
 MENTS,  SUCH  AS  LEASES  OR EASEMENTS, FOR THE PURPOSE OF AIDING IN THE
 SITING AND CONNECTIVITY OF RENEWABLE ENERGY INSTALLATIONS AND THE TRANS-
 MISSION AND DISTRIBUTION OF ELECTRICITY  THEREFROM.  SUCH  INSTALLATIONS
 SHALL  INCLUDE, BUT NOT BE LIMITED TO, SOLAR POWER AND WIND POWER, UNDER
 SUCH TERMS AS MAY BE PRESCRIBED BY THE DEPARTMENT, AND UPON SUCH  CONDI-
 TIONS  THAT  THE  EXERCISE  OF SUCH AGREEMENT RIGHTS SHALL NOT INTERFERE
 WITH THE OPERATION OF SUCH REFORESTATION  AREAS  FOR  THE  PURPOSES  FOR
 WHICH  THEY  WERE  ACQUIRED  AND  AS DEFINED IN SECTION THREE OF ARTICLE
 FOURTEEN OF THE NEW YORK STATE  CONSTITUTION.  ANY  AGREEMENT  MADE  AND
 ENTERED INTO PURSUANT TO THIS SECTION SHALL BE RECORDED IN THE OFFICE OF
 GENERAL  SERVICES  AND  BE  MADE AVAILABLE TO THE PUBLIC ON THE OFFICIAL
 WEBSITE OF SUCH OFFICE.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD08654-01-5

2025-S4408A (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A10483
Law Section:
Environmental Conservation Law
Laws Affected:
Add §9-0508, En Con L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2019-2020: S6775
2021-2022: S659
2023-2024: S1918

2025-S4408A (ACTIVE) - Summary

Authorizes the department of environmental conservation to enter into agreements or easements for the sole purpose of interconnection of renewable energy installations across reforestation areas where such installations are located outside such reforestation areas; provides that such agreements or easements shall not interfere with the operation of such reforestation areas for the purposes for which they were acquired.

2025-S4408A (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S4408A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                  4408--A
     Cal. No. 261
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             February 4, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  MAY  --  read  twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Environmental Conservation
   -- recommitted to  the  Committee  on  Environmental  Conservation  in
   accordance  with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- reported favorably from said
   committee, ordered to first and second  report,  ordered  to  a  third
   reading,  passed  by  Senate  and delivered to the Assembly, recalled,
   vote reconsidered, restored to  third  reading,  amended  and  ordered
   reprinted, retaining its place in the order of third reading
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend  the  environmental  conservation law, in relation to
   agreements and easements related to renewable  energy  interconnection
   across reforestation areas
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. The environmental conservation law is amended by  adding  a
 new section 9-0508 to read as follows:
 § 9-0508. AGREEMENTS AND EASEMENTS RELATED TO RENEWABLE ENERGY INTERCON-
             NECTION.
   NOTWITHSTANDING  ANY  PROVISIONS  OF ARTICLE SEVEN OF THE PUBLIC LANDS
 LAW TO THE CONTRARY, THE  DEPARTMENT  MAY,  IN  ANY  LANDS  ACQUIRED  AS
 REFORESTATION  AREAS  BY  THE STATE IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 9-0501 OF
 THIS TITLE, ENTER INTO AGREEMENTS, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO  LEASES,
 OR  EASEMENTS,  FOR THE SOLE PURPOSE OF AIDING IN THE INTERCONNECTION OF
 RENEWABLE ENERGY INSTALLATIONS LOCATED OUTSIDE SUCH LANDS AND THE TRANS-
 MISSION AND DISTRIBUTION OF ELECTRICITY THEREFROM. SUCH  INTERCONNECTION
 RIGHTS  SHALL  NOT  INTERFERE  WITH  THE OPERATION OF SUCH REFORESTATION
 AREAS FOR THE PURPOSES FOR WHICH THEY WERE ACQUIRED AND  AS  DEFINED  IN
 SECTION  THREE  OF  ARTICLE FOURTEEN OF THE NEW YORK STATE CONSTITUTION.
 ANY AGREEMENT MADE AND ENTERED INTO PURSUANT TO THIS  SECTION  SHALL  BE
 RECORDED  IN THE OFFICE OF GENERAL SERVICES AND BE MADE AVAILABLE TO THE
 PUBLIC ON THE OFFICIAL WEBSITE OF SUCH OFFICE.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.

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