Bill > A10483

This bill allows the Department of Environmental Conservation to enter into agreements or easements, which are legal rights to use land for a specific purpose, on state-owned reforestation areas. These agreements are exclusively for connecting renewable energy installations, such as solar or wind farms, that are located outside of these reforestation areas to the electricity grid, and for transmitting and distributing the power generated. Importantly, these agreements must not disrupt the primary purpose of the reforestation areas, which is to conserve and manage forests as defined by the New York State Constitution. Any such agreements will be publicly recorded and made available online.