Bill Text: NY A08069 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Relates to the criteria for siting and the transportation of liquefied natural and petroleum gas.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2014-01-27 - amended on third reading 8069a [A08069 Detail]
Download: New_York-2013-A08069-Amended.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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8069--A
Cal. No. 396
2013-2014 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
June 17, 2013
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Introduced by M. of A. CAMARA, CRESPO, ZEBROWSKI -- read once and
referred to the Committee on Ways and Means -- advanced to a third
reading, amended and ordered reprinted, retaining its place on the
order of third reading
AN ACT to amend the environmental conservation law, in relation to the
criteria for siting and the transportation of liquefied natural and
petroleum gas
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 23-1709 of the environmental
2 conversation law, as amended by chapter 233 of the laws of 1979, is
3 amended to read as follows:
4 1. The department shall, after investigation and opportunity for
5 public comment, [within one year from the effective date of this
6 section] NO LATER THAN DECEMBER THIRTY-FIRST, TWO THOUSAND FIFTEEN,
7 adopt, and file with the secretary of state, regulations establishing
8 criteria for the siting of liquefied natural and petroleum gas facili-
9 ties. Such siting criteria shall be designed to insure the maximum safe-
10 ty of the public from hazards associated with liquefied natural or
11 petroleum gas storage, transportation and conversion. The department
12 shall also within one year from such effective date adopt regulations
13 prescribing the form and content of applications for environmental safe-
14 ty permits to construct a liquefied natural or petroleum gas facility.
15 S 2. Subdivision 2 of section 23-1713 of the environmental conserva-
16 tion law, as added by chapter 892 of the laws of 1976, is amended to
17 read as follows:
18 2. The department of transportation in consultation with the depart-
19 ment of environmental conservation shall establish criteria for the safe
20 transportation of such liquefied natural and petroleum gas. Such crite-
21 ria shall take into consideration the proximity of the route or routes
22 to contiguous populations, the capability of municipal fire departments
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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1 to protect communities and contiguous populations against fire cloud
2 damage attendant upon vapor release of the gas from its cryogenic state
3 due to accident or malfunction in equipment, and the risk of further
4 accident related thereto and conflagration attendant upon its ignition.
5 Such department's criteria shall be no less restrictive than existing
6 federal regulations. Such department shall [within one year from the
7 effective date of this section] NO LATER THAN DECEMBER THIRTY-FIRST, TWO
8 THOUSAND FIFTEEN, adopt regulations prescribing the forms and procedures
9 to be followed, which shall include notice to all affected municipal
10 police and fire departments, for the certification of routes to be used
11 for the safe intrastate transportation of such liquefied natural and
12 petroleum gas.
13 S 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
