Bill Text: NY S03288 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Enacts the "electric super highway act", requiring alternative fuels to be available for public use along the New York state thruway after November 1, 2021 and providing each recommended alternative fuel at least every one hundred twenty miles on both sides of the thruway; defines "alternative fuel".

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - REFERRED TO ENERGY AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS [S03288 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S03288-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          3288

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 28, 2021
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        Introduced  by  Sens.  PARKER, BAILEY -- read twice and ordered printed,
          and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Energy and  Tele-
          communications

        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  energy  law  and the public authorities law, in
          relation to the availability of alternative fuels along the  New  York
          state thruway

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. This act shall be known and may be cited as  the  "electric
     2  super highway act of 2021".
     3    § 2. Section 1-103 of the energy law is amended by adding a new subdi-
     4  vision 14 to read as follows:
     5    14.  "Alternative  fuel"  shall  mean  ethanol, methanol, natural gas,
     6  propane, electricity (including electricity from solar  energy),  hydro-
     7  gen,  and  any other fuel identified which is substantially not petrole-
     8  um-based, which is consistent with the goals of  protecting  the  safety
     9  and health of the public and minimizing emissions of air pollutants, and
    10  which  is  consistent  with  any  applicable  federal  alternative  fuel
    11  requirements.
    12    § 3. The energy law is amended by adding a new section 5-129  to  read
    13  as follows:
    14    §  5-129.  Alternative  fuels.   State energy research and development
    15  authority shall provide the New York state thruway authority with a list
    16  of the most feasible alternative fuels, which shall number no fewer than
    17  three, and assist the authority  in  implementing  the  requirements  of
    18  section three hundred fifty-four of the public authorities law.
    19    §  4.  Subdivision 10 of section 354 of the public authorities law, as
    20  amended by section 2 of part TT of chapter 54 of the laws  of  2016,  is
    21  amended to read as follows:
    22    10.  To  construct,  reconstruct or improve on or along the thruway in
    23  the manner  herein  provided,  suitable  facilities  for  gas  stations,

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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        S. 3288                             2

     1  restaurants,  and other facilities for the public, or to lease the right
     2  to construct, reconstruct or improve and operate such  facilities;  such
     3  facilities  shall  be publicly offered for leasing for operation, or the
     4  right  to  construct, reconstruct or improve and operate such facilities
     5  shall be publicly offered under rules and regulations to be  established
     6  by the authority, provided, however, that lessees operating such facili-
     7  ties  at the time this act becomes effective, may reconstruct or improve
     8  them or may construct additional like facilities, in the manner and upon
     9  such terms and conditions as the board  shall  determine;  and  provided
    10  further,  however, that each such facility which contains or consists of
    11  a gas station shall, beginning November first, two thousand  twenty-one,
    12  include  a  facility  for  selling to the public an alternative fuel, as
    13  defined in section 1-103 of the energy law  and  each  alternative  fuel
    14  recommended  to  the authority by the New York state energy research and
    15  development authority pursuant to section 5-129 of the energy law  shall
    16  be  made available at intervals of no more than one hundred twenty miles
    17  on each side of the thruway;
    18    § 5. This act shall take effect immediately.