NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY
1981 SESSION

CHAPTER 1128
SENATE BILL 577

AN ACT TO ALLOW A FEE FOR EACH NUCLEAR ELECTRIC GENERATING PLANT LOCATED IN NORTH CAROLINA FOR THE PURPOSE OF DEFERRING THE COSTS OF PLANNING EMERGENCY RESPONSE AS REQUIRED BY THE FEDERAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1. Chapter 166A of the General Statutes, as the same is found in the 1980 Interim Supplement to the General Statutes, is amended by adding a new section to read as follows:
"§ 166A‑6.1.  Emergency planning; charge. – 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 Crime Control and Public Safety an annual fee of at least thirty thousand dollars ($30,000) for each fixed nuclear facility located within this State. This fee is to be used to assist in or partially defray such costs of planning and implementing emergency response activities as are required of the State by the Federal Emergency Management Agency for the operation of nuclear facilities. Said fee is to be paid no later than July 1 of each year. This minimum fee may be increased from time to time as the costs of such planning and implementation increase. Such increases shall be by agreement between the State and the licensees or operators of the fixed nuclear facilities."
Sec. 2. This act is effective upon ratification and licensees or operators of fixed nuclear facilities are required to pay a fee of thirty thousand dollars ($30,000) for the first year on or before November 1, 1981 and for succeeding years on or before July 1 of each year.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 10th day of October, 1981.