GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
1989 SESSION
CHAPTER 964
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1. G.S. 166A-6.1(b) reads as rewritten:
"(b) Every person, firm,
corporation or municipality who is licensed to construct or who is operating a
fixed nuclear facility for the production of electricity shall pay to the State
of North Carolina for use of the Department of Environment, Health, and Natural
Resources General Fund an annual fee of no more than twelve eighteen
thousand dollars ($12,000) ($18,000) for each fixed nuclear
facility which is located within this State or has a Plume Exposure Pathway
Emergency Planning Zone of which any part is located within this State. This
fee is to be used shall be appropriated by the General Assembly and
may be used to assist in or partially defray such costs of planning and
implementing emergency response activities as are required by the Federal
Emergency Management Agency for the operation of nuclear facilities. Said fee
is to be paid no later than July 31 of each year. The amount of the fee for
use by the Department of Environment, Health, and Natural Resources shall be
determined by such Department. The fee will be referred to the Department
of Crime Control and Public Safety for collection."
Sec. 2. This act is effective upon ratification.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 26th day of July, 1990.