ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT POWER
ALLOCATION BOARD
MINUTES
September
26, 2006
Video
Conference 10:30 a.m.
Empire
State Development Corporation,
1. Approval
of the Minutes of the Meeting of July 21, 2006
2. Power
for Jobs Extended Benefits Recommendations
for
Electricity Savings Reimbursements
COMPANIES
IN JOB COMPLIANCE
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Con Edison - |
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Belmont Metals, Inc. Brooklyn Charmer Industries, Inc. Edison Price Lighting, Inc. Greater Jamaica Development Corp. Long Island Jewish Manhasset |
New Museum of Contemporary Art The Brooklyn The |
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Long Island Power Authority
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Ametek Hughes Treitler Garden City West Islip |
John Hassall, Inc. Westbury Ultimate Precision Metal Farmingdale |
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National Grid - |
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Borg Warner Morse Tech Corp Bristol-Myers Squibb Company East Syracuse Cascades Tissue Group Gouverneur St. Lawrence County Fiber Glass Industries Inc. Ford Motor Company Interface Solutions, Inc. Lowville |
Mohawk Paper Mills Natrium Products, Inc. Organichem, Inc. Rensselaer Queensboro Farm Products, Inc. Canastota Robison & Smith, Inc. Sorrento Lactalis, Inc. Vicks Lithograph & Printing Yorkville Welch Allyn Data Collection Inc. Skaneateles Falls |
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Agri-Mark, Inc. Chateaugay Air-Flo Manufacturing Prattsburgh |
Borg Warner Automotive Morse Candlelight Cabinetry, Inc. |
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Flower City Printing, Inc. |
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COMPANIES
NOT IN JOB COMPLIANCE
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Con Edison - |
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International Business Machines |
Norampac New York City, Inc. Maspeth |
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Long Island Power Authority - |
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Augros, Inc. |
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National Grid - |
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Cooper Hand Tools CWM Chemical Services, LLC Fitzpatrick & Weller, Inc. Ellicottville Kilian Manufacturing Corporation McLane Eastern Baldwinsville Quad Graphics, Inc. |
Specialized Packaging Radisson, Inc. Baldwinsville Standard Manufacturing Co., Inc. Syracuse China Company Syracuse Plastics, Inc. Liverpool Turbine Components Technologies Whitesboro |
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Audio Sears
Endicott Interconnect Technologies Endicott |
Vail Ballou Press, Inc. |
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Gorbel Corp. Fishers International Business Machines |
Jada Precision Plastics Co. |
OTHER BUSINESS
3. Next Meeting
A regular meeting of the Economic Development
Power Allocation Board was held via video conference at the following
participating locations:
1)
2)
3)
4) Empire State Development Corporation,
The following Members of the
Board were present at the following locations:
Frank
S. McCullough, Jr., Chairman (
Bernard P. McGarry, Member (
James
A. Duncan, Member, (
Kevin S. Corbett, Member (
Also in attendance were:
Timothy
S. Carey President
and Chief Executive Officer, NYPA
Thomas J. Kelly Executive Vice President and General Counsel, NYPA
Louise M. Morman Senior
Vice President Marketing, Economic Development
and Supply Planning, NYPA
Anne B. Cahill Corporate
Secretary, NYPA
Joseph C. Carline Assistant
General Counsel, NYPA
Angela D. Graves Deputy
Corporate Secretary, NYPA
Gary Paslow Vice
President Government Affairs
& Policy Development, NYPA
James H. Yates Vice President Major Account Marketing and Economic Development, NYPA
John B. Hamor Executive
Director State Governmental Relations, NYPA
James F. Pasquale Director
Business Power Allocations and Regulation, NYPA
Michael A. Saltzman Director
Media Relations, NYPA
Anthony C. Savino Manager
Business Power Allocations and Compliance, NYPA
Mary Jean Frank Associate Corporate Secretary, NYPA
Lorna M. Johnson Assistant Secretary, NYPA
Niko P. Ladopolous Legislative Liason, NYPA
Jeffrey Carey Special
Assistant to President and Chief Executive Officer, NYPA
Michael J. Santarcangelo Director Energy Policy,
Empire State Development Corporation
1. Adoption of Minutes
The minutes of the meeting of July 21, 2006, were unanimously adopted.
2.
Power for
Jobs Extended Benefits Recommendations
for Electricity Savings
Reimbursements
The members of the Board reconsidered the 60 applications for extended benefits recommendations for electricity savings reimbursements listed below for Power for Jobs. Mr. Pasquale explained that some 54,350 jobs would be impacted. See Exhibits 2-A1 and 2-A2.
The following resolution was unanimously adopted
by members of the Board present.
WHEREAS, the following entities have
applied for extended benefits recommendations for electricity savings
reimbursements under the Power for Jobs program:
COMPANIES IN JOB COMPLIANCE
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Con Edison - |
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Belmont Metals, Inc. Brooklyn Charmer Industries, Inc. Edison Price Lighting, Inc. Greater Jamaica Development Corp. Long Island Jewish Manhasset |
New Museum of Contemporary Art The Brooklyn The |
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Long Island Power Authority
- |
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Ametek Hughes Treitler Garden City West Islip |
John Hassall, Inc. Westbury Ultimate Precision Metal Farmingdale |
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National Grid - |
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Borg Warner Morse Tech Corp Bristol-Myers Squibb Company East Syracuse Cascades Tissue Group Gouverneur St. Lawrence County Fiber Glass Industries Inc. Ford Motor Company Interface Solutions, Inc. Lowville |
Mohawk Paper Mills Natrium Products, Inc. Organichem, Inc. Rensselaer Queensboro Farm Products, Inc. Canastota Robison & Smith, Inc. Sorrento Lactalis, Inc. Vicks Lithograph & Printing Yorkville Welch Allyn Data Collection Inc. Skaneateles Falls |
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Agri-Mark, Inc. Chateaugay Air-Flo Manufacturing Prattsburgh |
Borg Warner Automotive Morse Candlelight Cabinetry, Inc. |
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Flower City Printing, Inc. |
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COMPANIES
NOT IN JOB COMPLIANCE
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Con Edison - |
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International Business Machines |
Norampac New York City, Inc. Maspeth |
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Long Island Power Authority
- |
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Augros, Inc. |
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National Grid - |
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Cooper Hand Tools CWM Chemical Services, LLC Fitzpatrick & Weller, Inc. Ellicottville Kilian Manufacturing Corporation McLane Eastern Baldwinsville Quad Graphics, Inc. |
Specialized Packaging Radisson, Inc. Baldwinsville Standard Manufacturing Co., Inc. Syracuse China Company Syracuse Plastics, Inc. Liverpool Turbine Components Technologies Whitesboro |
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Audio Sears
Endicott Interconnect Technologies Endicott |
Vail Ballou Press, Inc. |
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Gorbel Corp. Fishers International Business Machines |
Jada Precision Plastics Co. |
Mr.
Pasquale presented the highlights of staffs recommendations to the Board. In response to a question from Mr. Corbett,
Mr. Pasquale said that the 20 companies that were not in job compliance were
eligible to apply for reconsideration of their power allocation reduction. Chairman McCullough added that Authority
staff would notify those companies about the process for applying for such
reconsideration.
In
response to another question from Mr. Corbett, Chairman McCullough said that
the future of the PFJ program, among others, was one of the topics being
discussed by the temporary Commission on the Future of
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, That the
Board hereby finds and determines that such applications meet the requirements
of the extended benefits provisions of the Power for Jobs legislation contained
in Article 6 of the Economic Development Law as amended by Chapter 313 of the
Laws of 2005; and be it further
RESOLVED, That the
Board recommends to the Power Authority of the State of New York the 60 applications
for extended benefits recommendations for electricity savings reimbursements discussed
herein totaling 70,239 kW until December 31, 2006.
3. Next Meeting
Chairman McCullough said that the date for Octobers EDPAB meeting would be selected within the next week or so.