New York S 4318: Requires gas corporations to file a plan addressing aging or leaking pipelines within their service territory

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Requires gas corporations to file a plan with the public service commission addressing aging or leaking pipelines within their service territory; outlines plans for the replacement of such pipelines.

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02/04/2025REFERRED TO ENERGY AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS

01/07/2026REFERRED TO ENERGY AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
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 4318

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 February 4, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by Sen. COMRIE -- 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 requiring gas
 corporations to file a plan addressing aging or leaking pipelines
 within their service territory

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

 1 Section 1. The public service law is amended by adding a new section
 2 68-b to read as follows:
 3 § 68-b. Aging or leaking pipelines. 1. Definitions. For the purposes
 4 of this section, the following words, shall, unless the context clearly
 5 requires otherwise, have the following meanings:
 6 (a) "Customer" shall mean a retail customer receiving end use service
 7 from a gas corporation.
 8 (b) "Eligible infrastructure replacement" shall mean a replacement or
 9 an improvement of existing pipeline of gas corporation that: (i) is
 10 performed on or after January first, two thousand twenty-six; (ii) is
 11 designed to improve public safety and/or infrastructure reliability;
 12 (iii) does not increase the revenue of a gas corporation by connecting
 13 an improvement or installing new pipeline for the principal purpose of
 14 serving new customers; (iv) reduces, or has the potential to reduce,
 15 lost and unaccounted for gas through a reduction in gas leaks; and (v)
 16 is not included in the approved rate base of the gas corporation as
 17 determined in the gas corporation's most recent approved rate plan.
 18 (c) "Gas infrastructure rate plan" shall mean a pipeline replacement
 19 program construction plan that a gas corporation files with the commis-
 20 sion pursuant to subdivision two of this section.
 21 (d) "Project" shall mean an eligible pipeline replacement project
 22 proposed by a gas corporation in a plan filed under this section.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD05576-01-5

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 1 2. A gas corporation shall file with the commission a plan to address
 2 aging or leaking pipeline within its respective service territory in the
 3 interest of public safety and reducing lost and unaccounted for gas
 4 through a reduction in gas leaks. The filing of the plan required pursu-
 5 ant to this subdivision shall be submitted no later than the thirty-
 6 first of October, two thousand twenty-six.
 7 3. (a) Any plan filed with the commission shall include, but not be
 8 limited to: (i) eligible pipeline replacement of mains, service lines,
 9 metering sets, and other ancillary facilities composed of non-cathodi-
 10 cally protected steel, cast iron, wrought iron, and any other material
 11 the commission deems leak-prone, prioritized to implement the federal
 12 gas distribution pipeline integrity management plan annually submitted
 13 to the commission and consistent with subpart P of 49 C.F.R. part 192;
 14 (ii) an anticipated timeline for the completion of each project; (iii)
 15 the estimated cost of each project; (iv) rate change requests; (v) a
 16 description of customer costs and benefits under the plan; and (vi) any
 17 other information the department considers necessary to evaluate the
 18 plan.
 19 (b) Upon the filing of the plan required under this section, a gas
 20 corporation shall include a timeline for removing all leak-prone pipe-
 21 line on an accelerated basis, specifying an annual replacement pace and
 22 prog