Source: https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2019/s2316
Timestamp: 2019-06-17 11:49:22
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Matched Legal Cases: ['§23', '§23', '§80', '§ 23', '§ 23', '§ 23', '§ 3', '§  80', '§ 4', '§  83', '§ 5', '§  89', '§ 6']

NY State Senate Bill S2316
senate Bill S2316
Relates to prohibiting state authorizations related to certain offshore oil and natural gas production
Current Bill Status Via A2572 - Signed by Governor
Get Status Alerts for S2316
Apr 29, 2019 signed chap.29
Apr 25, 2019 delivered to governor
Feb 05, 2019 returned to assembly
substituted for s2316
Feb 05, 2019 substituted by a2572
Jan 28, 2019 1st report cal.76
Feb 5, 2019 - floor Vote
Floor Vote: Feb 5, 2019
Jan 28, 2019 - Environmental Conservation committee Vote
Environmental Conservation Committee Vote: Jan 28, 2019
S2316 (ACTIVE) - Details
Amd §23-1101, add §23-1105, En Con L; amd §§80, 83 & 89, Transp Corps L
S8017, A9819
S2316 (ACTIVE) - Summary
Relates to prohibiting state authorizations related to certain offshore oil and natural gas production.
S2316 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo
BILL NUMBER: S2316
the transportation corporations law, in relation to prohibiting state
authorizations related to certain offshore oil and natural gas
To prohibit oil and natural gas drilling in New York's coastal areas.
This bill would amend Environmental Conservation Law § 23-1101 to
prohibit the leasing of state-owned underwater coastal lands for oil and
natural gas drilling and add a new § 23-1105 to prevent the Department
of Environmental Conservation and the Office of General Services from
authorizing leases that would result in the increase of oil or natural
gas production from federal waters. In addition, the bill would amend
the Transportation Corporations Law to restrict the powers of such
corporations to develop pipelines associated with the delivery of
natural gas or oil from the North Atlantic Planning Area.
In a Presidential Executive Order issued on April 28, 2017, President
Trump announced an "America-First Offshore Energy Strategy." The imple-
mentation of this Executive Order included the United States Department
of the Interior's (DOI) January 4, 2018 announcement regarding plans for
the expansion of natural gas and oil drilling, and the release of the
"2019-2024 National Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Gas Leasing Draft
Proposed Program," by the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM). The
federal proposed offshore drilling expansion includes the potential
lease of acreage in federal offshore areas such as the approximately 270
million-acre Atlantic Region. The Atlantic Region, which extends north
to Canada, east to the territorial waters of the Bahamas, and south to
the territorial waters of Cuba, is divided into four planning areas
North Atlantic (which includes New York), Mid-Atlantic, South Atlantic,
and Straits of Florida. The BOEM proposal includes a total of nine lease
sales in the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) of the Atlantic Region, with
two potentially taking place in the North Atlantic area that includes
Drilling off New York's Atlantic Coast has been off limits for decades
and as a result, some of the State's laws regulating oil and natural gas
drilling have not kept pace. This legislation would remedy that over-
sight and prohibit the use of the State's underwater lands for drilling.
Such a prohibition is in keeping with New York's coastal management
practices, and also protects endangered and threatened species, such as
the North Atlantic right whale, and the State's recreational and commer-
cial fishing industries. In addition, this legislation, based in part on
legislation from California, would prohibit DEC and OGS from providing
leases that would result in the increase of oil or natural gas
production from federal waters.
2018: S.8017(LaValle)/A.9819 (similar) (Englebright) - Passed the Assem-
S2316 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
AN ACT to amend the environmental conservation law and  the  transporta-
tion corporations law, in relation to prohibiting state authorizations
related to certain offshore oil and natural gas production
Section 1. Paragraphs a and b of subdivision 1 of section  23-1101  of
the  environmental conservation law, as added by chapter 722 of the laws
of 1977, are amended to read as follows:
a. The exploration, development and production of gas  in  state-owned
lands,  except  state  park  lands,  THE  MARINE AND COASTAL DISTRICT AS
DEFINED IN SECTION 13-0103 OF THIS CHAPTER,  and  the  lands  under  the
waters of Lake Ontario or along its shoreline; and
b.  The  exploration, development and production of oil in state-owned
lands, except state park lands,  THE  MARINE  AND  COASTAL  DISTRICT  AS
DEFINED  IN  SECTION  13-0103  OF  THIS CHAPTER, and the lands under the
waters of Lake Erie and Lake Ontario or along their shorelines.
section 23-1105 to read as follows:
§ 23-1105. PROHIBITION   ON  STATE  AUTHORIZATIONS  RELATED  TO  CERTAIN
OFFSHORE OIL AND NATURAL GAS PRODUCTION.
1. NEITHER THE DEPARTMENT NOR THE OFFICE  OF  GENERAL  SERVICES  SHALL
ENTER  INTO  ANY NEW LEASE OR OTHER CONVEYANCE, LEASE RENEWAL, EXTENSION
OR MODIFICATION, THAT AUTHORIZES THE EXPLORATION FOR, OR THE DEVELOPMENT
AND PRODUCTION OF, OIL OR NATURAL GAS UPON LANDS OWNED BY THE  STATE  IN
THE  MARINE  AND  COASTAL DISTRICT AS DEFINED IN SECTION 13-0103 OF THIS
CHAPTER, THAT WOULD RESULT  IN  THE  INCREASE  OF  OIL  OR  NATURAL  GAS
2.  THE  DEPARTMENT  IS  AUTHORIZED  TO ESTABLISH SUCH RULES AND REGU-
LATIONS AS IT SHALL DEEM NECESSARY TO IMPLEMENT THIS SECTION.
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3. FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS SECTION,  THE  FOLLOWING  TERMS  HAVE  THE
A.  "DEVELOPMENT"  MEANS  THOSE  ACTIVITIES TAKING PLACE FOLLOWING THE
DISCOVERY OF OIL AND NATURAL GAS, INCLUDING GEOPHYSICAL ACTIVITY, DRILL-
ING, PLATFORM CONSTRUCTION, PIPELINE CONSTRUCTION, AND OPERATION OF  ALL
ONSHORE  SUPPORT FACILITIES THAT ARE PERFORMED FOR THE PURPOSES OF ULTI-
MATELY PRODUCING THE RESOURCES DISCOVERED.
B. "EXPLORATION" MEANS THE PROCESS OF SEARCHING FOR  OIL  AND  NATURAL
GAS,  INCLUDING  ANY  DRILLING WHETHER ON OR OFF KNOWN GEOLOGICAL STRUC-
TURES, INCLUDING THE DRILLING OF A WELL IN WHICH A DISCOVERY OF  OIL  OR
NATURAL  GAS IS MADE AND THE DRILLING OF ANY ADDITIONAL DELINEATION WELL
AFTER THE DISCOVERY THAT IS NEEDED TO  DELINEATE  ANY  RESERVOIR  AND  A
LESSEE TO DETERMINE WHETHER TO PROCEED WITH DEVELOPMENT AND PRODUCTION.
C.  "FEDERAL  WATERS"  MEANS  THOSE  WATERS  AND SUBMERGED LANDS LYING
SEAWARD TO THE STATE WATERS OF NEW YORK THAT  APPERTAIN  TO  THE  UNITED
STATES AND ARE SUBJECT TO FEDERAL JURISDICTION AND CONTROL.
D.  "NEW  OR ADDITIONAL EXPLORATION, DEVELOPMENT, OR PRODUCTION OF OIL
OR NATURAL GAS" INCLUDES ANY ACTIVITY UNDERTAKEN TO INCREASE THE CAPACI-
TY OF ANY PIPELINE OR OTHER INFRASTRUCTURE USED TO CONVEY OIL OR NATURAL
GAS FROM FEDERAL WATERS.
E. "PRODUCTION" MEANS THOSE  ACTIVITIES  THAT  TAKE  PLACE  AFTER  THE
SUCCESSFUL  COMPLETION  OF  ANY MEANS FOR THE REMOVAL OF OIL AND NATURAL
GAS, INCLUDING THAT REMOVAL, FIELD OPERATIONS, TRANSFER OR RESOURCES  TO
SHORE,   OPERATION,  MONITORING,  MAINTENANCE,  AND  WORKOVER  DRILLING.
"PRODUCING" MEANS UNDERTAKING THOSE ACTIVITIES.
§ 3. Section 80 of the transportation corporations law is  amended  to
§  80.  [Definition]  DEFINITIONS.    1.  A pipe line corporation is a
corporation organized to construct and operate for  public  use,  wholly
within  or  partly  without  this state, except in the city of New York,
lines of pipe for conveying  or  transporting  therein  petroleum,  gas,
liquids  or  any products or property, or, except in such city, to main-
tain and operate for public use for which such purposes  lines  of  pipe
2.  FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS ARTICLE, THE TERMS "EXPLORATION", "DEVEL-
OPMENT", "PRODUCTION", AND "FEDERAL  WATERS"  SHALL  BE  DEFINED  AS  IN
SECTION 23-1105 OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION LAW.
3.  "NORTH  ATLANTIC PLANNING AREA" MEANS AN AREA OF FEDERAL WATERS IN
THE OUTER CONTINENTAL SHELF TOTALING NINETY-TWO  MILLION  THREE  HUNDRED
TWENTY THOUSAND ACRES ADJACENT TO THE COASTAL WATERS OF MAINE, NEW HAMP-
SHIRE,  MASSACHUSETTS,  RHODE  ISLAND,  CONNECTICUT,  NEW  YORK, AND NEW
§ 4. Section 83 of the transportation corporations law is  amended  to
§  83.  Condemnation  of  real  property.  In case such corporation is
unable to agree for the purchase of any real property required  for  the
purposes of its incorporation, and its route in the county in which such
real  property  is  situated has been finally located, it shall have the
right to acquire title thereto by  condemnation,  but  such  corporation
shall  not  locate  its  route  or construct any line of pipe through or
under any building, dooryard, lawn, garden or  orchard,  except  by  the
consent  of  the owner thereof in writing duly acknowledged, nor through
any cemetery or burial ground, nor within one hundred feet of any build-
ing except where such line is authorized by public officers to  be  laid
across  or  upon any public highway, AND SHALL NOT CONSTRUCT ANY LINE OF
PIPE THAT SUPPORTS FACILITIES OR INFRASTRUCTURE ASSOCIATED WITH EXPLORA-
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TION, DEVELOPMENT, OR PRODUCTION OF OIL OR NATURAL GAS IN FEDERAL WATERS
LOCATED IN THE NORTH ATLANTIC PLANNING AREA.  No such corporation  shall
lay or construct its line of pipe through or under a street in any city,
unless  it shall first obtain the consent of a majority of the owners of
property abutting on that portion of the street in which its  pipe  line
is  to  be  laid.  Such pipe line shall be laid with reasonable care and
§ 5. Section 89 of the transportation corporations law, as amended  by
chapter 60 of the laws of 1962, is amended to read as follows:
§  89.  Over  state  lands. The commissioner of general services shall
have power to grant to any pipe line corporation any lands belonging  to
the  people  of this state which may be required for the purposes of its
incorporation on such terms as may be agreed, or  such  corporation  may
acquire  title  thereto  by condemnation, except THAT NO CORPORATION MAY
CONDEMN ANY LANDS FOR THE PURPOSES OF THE CONSTRUCTION OF  ANY  LINE  OF
TION,  DEVELOPMENT,  OR  PRODUCTION  OF  OIL OR NATURAL GAS IN THE NORTH
ATLANTIC PLANNING AREA, AND FURTHER EXCEPTING that no pipe  line  corpo-
ration  may condemn any canal lands abandoned pursuant to the provisions
of article four of the public lands law[, constituting chapter fifty  of
the  laws  of  nineteen hundred nine, as amended,] until after they have
been sold and conveyed in the manner provided by the public  lands  law.
If  any  lands  owned  by  any  county, city or town be required by such
corporation for such purposes, the county, city or town officers  having
charge  of  such  lands may grant them to the corporation upon terms and
compensation agreed upon.
§ 6. Severability clause. If any clause, sentence, paragraph, subdivi-
impair, on invalidate the remainder thereof, but shall  be  confined  in
or part thereof directly involved  in  the  controversy  in  which  such
judgement  shall  have been rendered. It is hereby declared to be in the