* § 147. Opinion to be issued with decision. In rendering a decision on an application for a certificate, the board shall issue an opinion stating its reasons for the action taken. If the board has found that any local ordinance, law, resolution, regulation, or other action issued thereunder or any other local standard or requirement which would be otherwise applicable is unreasonably restrictive pursuant to paragraph (d) of subdivision two of section one hundred forty-six of this article, it shall state in its opinion the reasons therefor.

Terms Used In N.Y. Public Service Law 147

  • Board: means the New York state board on electric generation siting and the environment, which shall be in the department of public service and consist of seven persons, one of whom shall be the chairman of the public service commission, who shall serve as chairman of the board, one of whom shall be the commissioner of environmental conservation, one of whom shall be the commissioner of health, one of whom shall be the commissioner of the state energy office, one of whom shall be the commissioner of commerce and two of whom shall be public members appointed by the governor, one of whom shall be an ad hoc member who shall be a resident of the judicial district in which the facility as primarily proposed is to be located and one of whom shall be an ad hoc member who shall be a resident of the county in which the facility as primarily proposed is to be located. See N.Y. Public Service Law 140
  • Certificate: means a certificate of environmental compatibility and public need authorizing the construction of a major steam electric generating facility issued by the board pursuant to this article. See N.Y. Public Service Law 140

* NB Expired January 1, 1989

* NB Operative with regard to applications filed on or before December

31, 1988

* NB There are 2 § 147's

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