New York A 4403: Provides for funding for emergency management services for certain counties with non-operational nuclear power plants

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A04403 Summary:

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Provides for funding for emergency management services for certain counties with non-operational nuclear power plants.

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02/04/2025referred to governmental operations

01/07/2026referred to governmental operations

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 4403

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 February 4, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by M. of A. PRETLOW -- read once and referred to the Commit-
 tee on Governmental Operations

 AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to funding for emergency
 management services for certain counties with non-operational nuclear
 power plants

 The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
 bly, do enact as follows:

 1 Section 1. Section 29-c of the executive law, as added by chapter 708
 2 of the laws of 1981, paragraph (b) of subdivision 2 as amended by
 3 section 1 of part R of chapter 56 of the laws of 2009 and subdivision
 4 3-a as added by chapter 728 of the laws of 1992, is amended to read as
 5 follows:
 6 § 29-c. Radiological preparedness. 1. The commission:
 7 (a) may monitor directly and record the off-site presence of radioac-
 8 tive material in the vicinity of any nuclear electric generating facili-
 9 ties, decommissioned facilities, facilities in the process of being
 10 decommissioned or those decommissioned nuclear electric generating
 11 facilities being used for spent fuel nuclear storage located in the
 12 state of New York;
 13 (b) shall obtain from the licensees, United States nuclear regulatory
 14 commission-required high range radiation, temperature and pressure
 15 levels in the containment buildings and in the containment building
 16 vents of nuclear electric generating facilities located in the state of
 17 New York; and,
 18 (c) shall obtain, subject to the approval of the United States nuclear
 19 regulatory commission, any reactor or spent fuel data provided by the
 20 licensee to the United States nuclear regulatory commission, which the
 21 disaster preparedness commission determines, as a result of the report
 22 issued pursuant to section twenty-nine-d of this article, to be a reli-
 23 able indicator of a possible radiological accident.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD08739-01-5

 A. 4403 2

 1 Upon the occurrence of a radiological accident, the commission shall
 2 promptly provide appropriate and available radioactivity monitoring data
 3 to any chief executive who requests it. For the purposes of this
 4 section, the term "radiological accident" shall be limited to a radio-
 5 logical accident occurring at a nuclear electric generating site or any
 6 inactive nuclear electric generating site being used as a nuclear spent
 7 fuel storage facility.
 8 2. (a) Any licensee of the United States nuclear regulatory commission
 9 for a nuclear electric generating facility or inactive nuclear electric
 10 generating site used for a nuclear spent fuel storage facility shall be
 11 liable for an annual fee to support state and local governmental respon-
 12 sibilities under accepted radiological emergency preparedness plans
 13 related to the facility operated by such licensee.
 14 (b) The amount of such fee shall be one million dollars for each
 15 active nuclear electric generating reactor. Such fee, which shall be
 16 payable to the commission on or before December first, shall be expended
 17 or distributed only by appropriation.
 18 (c) The amount of such fee for each inactive nuclear electric generat-
 19 ing reactor shall be as follows: one million dollars in year one of
 20 deactivation, seven hundred fifty thousand dollars in year two of deac-
 21 tivation, five hundred thousand dollars in years three and four of deac-
 22 tivation, two hundred fifty thousand dollars in years five, six and
 23 seven of deactivation, and one hundred fifty thousand dollars in years
 24