What's happening
This bill requires gas pipeline builders to file mapping data with the state and directs the creation of a computerized pipeline mapping system.
Why it matters
Enhances public safety and emergency preparedness. by ensuring state agencies have up-to-date, detailed maps of gas pipelines, which can improve response to leaks, accidents, or natural disasters.
Increases transparency and oversight. of gas infrastructure by requiring pipeline builders to submit precise location and mapping data, making it easier for regulators and potentially the public to monitor new and existing pipelines.
Supports environmental protection efforts. by overlaying pipeline maps with environmentally sensitive areas, helping state agencies identify and mitigate risks to protected lands and resources during pipeline construction or maintenance.
Clarifies regulatory boundaries. by specifically excluding certain federally regulated and local distribution pipelines from these requirements, focusing state oversight on gathering lines and certain pipeline facilities most relevant for state-level management.
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Map Gas Pipelines Statewide
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- Referred to energy and telecommunications
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Require Pipeline Maps Filed
In Senate Committee · Energy And Telecommunications · Sponsor Donna Lupardo
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STATE OF NEW YORK
8319
IN SENATE
April 30, 2018
Introduced by Sen. COMRIE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Energy and Telecommunications
AN ACT to amend the public service law, in relation to requiring certain information to be filed with department of public service
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. The public service law is amended by adding a new section 121-b to read as follows:
§ 121-b. Filing of certain information. 1. All persons who intend to construct a gas gathering line or a pipeline facility, shall file with the department spatial mapping data, including but not limited to geographic information system data, detailing the location of such proposed gathering line or pipeline facility.
2. The department, in consultation with the department of environmental conservation, shall establish and maintain a computer mapping system for plotting the location of gathering lines and pipeline facilities. Such maps shall overlay locations subject to the provisions of article twenty-three of the environmental conservation law.
3. For purposes of this section, the following terms shall have the following meanings:
(a) "Gathering line" means a pipeline that transports gas from a current production facility to a transmission line, main, or directly to an end user.
(b) "Pipeline facility" means new and existing pipeline, rights-ofway, and any related equipment, facility, or building, used in the transportation of gas, or in the treatment of gas during the course of transportation, in connection with the production, gathering, treatment or processing of such gas, but does not include any: (i) transmission and distribution system operated by a local distribution company subject to the jurisdiction of the commission for purposes of providing retail utility service; or (ii) transmission pipeline constructed by a natural gas company under the authority of the federal Natural Gas Act (15
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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U.S.C.A. Section 717 et seq.). The department shall have the option to incorporate any additional information regarding pipeline facilities.
§ 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after it shall have become a law, provided however, that effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implementation of this act on its effective date are authorized and directed to be made and completed on or before such effective date.
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Sponsor's memo
Title of bill
An act to amend the public service law, in relation to requiring certain information to be filed with department of public service
Purpose
The purpose of this bill is to ensure fuel gas transmission lines of all pressures are regulated, inspected, and mapped by the Public Service Commission.
Summary of provisions
Section 1 amends subdivision 2 of section 120 of the public service law to change the description of fuel gas transmission line to include tran- smission lines of any pressure used to transport fuel gas.
Section 2 establishes an effective date of thirty days after the act shall have become law: and directs the addition, amendment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implementation of the act on or before such effective date.
Justification
In light of the push to develop the Marcellus and other shales, many landowners, farmers, environmental advocates, and others have expressed concerns over the lack of oversight of fuel gas transmissions lines. Currently, low pressure transmission lines (lines with pressures of 124 pounds per square inch (psi) or less) are not regulated, inspected, or mapped in any systematic way. This bill provides regulators with up to date information on the development of infrastructure related to fuel gas transmissions.
Legislative history
A7589b - 2011-12 A3674 - 2013-14 A3237 -2015-16
Fiscal implications
To be determined.
Effective date
This act shall take effect 180 days after enactment.
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