Budget Amendment ID: FY2020-S3-1070-R1

Redraft EPS 1070

Responsible Emergency Planning and Monitoring

Messrs. Cyr, deMacedo and O'Connor moved that the proposed new text be amended in section 2, in item 8800-0100, by striking out, in line 5, the words “generating facilities in the commonwealth” and inserting in place thereof the following words:- "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; and provided further, that that no monies from any Decommissioning Trust Fund shall be used to satisfy this obligation"; and

by inserting after section 35 the following section:-

“SECTION 35A. 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.”.