AN ACT

 

1Amending the act of July 10, 1984 (P.L.688, No.147), entitled
2"An act combining the radiation safety provisions of The
3Atomic Energy Development and Radiation Control Act and the
4Environmental Radiation Protection Act; empowering the
5Department of Environmental Resources to implement a
6comprehensive Statewide radiation protection program; further
7providing for the power of the Environmental Quality Board
8and for the duties of the Environmental Hearing Board;
9expanding the authority of the department to regulate other
10radiation sources; providing for radiation emergency
11response; establishing requirements for transport of spent
12reactor fuel; establishing fees; providing penalties; making
13repeals; and authorizing and directing the Department of
14Environmental Resources and the Governor to convey ownership
15to the Carl A. White Acid Mine Drainage Treatment Plant,
16situated in Washington Township, Indiana County,
17Pennsylvania, to the County of Indiana, subject to a right of
18reverter for stated conditions," in fees, further providing
19for nuclear facility and transport fees.

20The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
21hereby enacts as follows:

22Section 1. Section 402(b.1)(1) of the act of July 10, 1984
23(P.L.688, No.147), known as the Radiation Protection Act,
24amended July 13, 2007 (P.L.95, No.31), is amended to read:

25Section 402. Nuclear facility and transport fees.

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27(b.1) Department fees.--

1(1) Within 30 days of the effective date of this
2subsection, each person who has a current nuclear power
3reactor construction permit or operating license from the NRC
4for a site within this Commonwealth shall pay the department
5$100,000 per nuclear power reactor site, regardless of the
6number of individual nuclear power reactors located at the
7site. By July 1, 2007, and July 1 of each year thereafter,
8each person who has a current nuclear power reactor
9construction permit or operating license from the NRC for a
10site within this Commonwealth shall pay the department an
11annual fee of [$550,000] $650,000 per nuclear power reactor
12site, regardless of the number of individual nuclear power
13reactors located at the site. For the purposes of this
14subsection only, a nuclear power reactor site shall be deemed
15to be the location of one or more individual nuclear power
16reactors which still has spent nuclear fuel stored onsite,
17has not been fully dismantled and decommissioned pursuant to
18applicable Federal law and regulations and has not been
19granted license termination by the NRC.

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21Section 2. This act shall apply to annual fees due on and
22after July 1, 2015.

23Section 3. This act shall take effect immediately.