Amendment #6 to H3819

Responsible Emergency Planning and Monitoring

Representatives Peake of Provincetown and Hunt of Sandwich move to amend the bill in section 2 by inserting after item 8700-0001 the following item: “8800-0100   For the nuclear safety preparedness program of the Massachusetts emergency management agency; provided, that the costs of the program, including fringe benefits and indirect costs, shall be assessed upon Nuclear Regulatory Commission licensees operating nuclear power plants and upon non-operating nuclear power plant sites that harbor spent nuclear fuel, high-level radioactive waste or other nuclear material in a spent fuel pool, dry cask storage systems or other storage structure; provided further, that these costs shall not be assessed against non-operating nuclear power plant sites where all plant facilities have completed the decommissioning process and the federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission has approved all areas of the site for unrestricted use, excluding the Independent Spent Fuel Storage Installation, in accordance with 10 CFR Part 50.82 and 10 CFR Part 72; provided further, that that no monies from any Decommissioning Trust Fund shall be used to satisfy this obligation; provided further, that the department of public utilities shall develop an equitable method of apportioning such assessments among such licensees; and provided further, that such assessments shall be paid during the current fiscal year as provided by the department................. $489,884”

and by inserting the following new section:

“SECTION XX. Subpart (E) of section 5K of chapter 111 of the General Laws, as so appearing, is hereby amended by inserting after the second sentence the following sentence:- Such assessments may be made against operating nuclear power plants and non-operating nuclear power plant sites that harbor spent nuclear fuel, high-level radioactive waste or other nuclear material in a spent fuel pool, dry cask storage systems or other storage structure; provided, that these costs shall not be assessed against non-operating nuclear power plant sites where all plant facilities have completed the decommissioning process and the federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission has approved all areas of the site for unrestricted use, excluding the Independent Spent Fuel Storage Installation, in accordance with 10 CFR Part 50.82 and 10 CFR Part 72; provided further, that no monies from any Decommissioning Trust Fund shall be used to satisfy assessments under this subpart.”.