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                              2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                      (PREFILED)
                                    January 7, 2015
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       Introduced  by Sen. GALLIVAN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
         printed to be committed to the Committee on  Energy  and  Telecommuni-
         cations
       AN  ACT  to  amend  the  public service law, in relation to certain farm
         waste electric generating equipment
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1.  Subparagraph  (iii)  of paragraph (b) of subdivision 5 of
    2  section 66-j of the public service law, as amended by chapter 546 of the
    3  laws of 2011, is amended to read as follows:
    4    (iii) In the event that the total rated generating  capacity  of  farm
    5  waste  electric  generating  equipment  that provides electricity to the
    6  electric corporation through the same local feeder line exceeds [twenty]
    7  TWENTY-FIVE percent of the rated capacity of the local feeder line,  the
    8  electric  corporation  may require the customer-generator to comply with
    9  reasonable measures to ensure safety of that local feeder line.
   10    S 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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