GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
1989 SESSION

CHAPTER 964
HOUSE BILL 2331

AN ACT TO INCREASE THE ANNUAL FEE PAID BY PERSONS LICENSED TO CONSTRUCT AND PERSONS WHO OPERATE NUCLEAR FACILITIES TO THE DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENT, HEALTH, AND NATURAL RESOURCES FOR PLANNING AND IMPLEMENTING EMERGENCY RESPONSE ACTIVITIES.

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 General Fund an annual fee of eighteen thousand dollars ($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 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 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.