SB1013 - 451R - House Bill Summary

House of Representatives

SB 1013

nuclear emergency appropriations and assessment

Sponsors: Senator Smith

DP	Committee on Appropriations
DP	Caucus and COW	This bill contains *Appropriation and Emergency clauses.*
X	As Passed the House

SB1013 appropriates $924,778 in FY 2001-2002 and $940,611 in FY 2002-2003 from the state general fund to the Nuclear Emergency Management Fund for the purposes of developing, maintaining and supporting the state nuclear emergency plan.

Background

State law requires the Legislature to levy, on a biennial basis, an assessment against each consortium of public service corporations and municipal corporations engaged in constructing or operating a commercial nuclear generating plant in the state. This assessment provides for the development and maintenance of a state plan for off-site response to an emergency caused by an accident at a commercial nuclear generating station and provides for the equipment, personnel, facilities, training and testing necessary to comply with federally prescribed criteria. The Department of Emergency and Military Affair=s (DEMA) Division of Emergency Management has been designated as the lead agency for Arizona with primary responsibility for development of the state plan for off-site response to a commercial nuclear emergency.

DEMA is required to make a recommendation for the amount of the biennial appropriation and assessment. The Legislature then appropriates to the nuclear emergency management fund the amount necessary to develop, maintain and support the state response plan. The assessment against each consortium of public service and municipal corporations offsets the legislative appropriations.

SB 1013 provides the biennial appropriation and assessment for the support of the state response plan for commercial nuclear emergencies. Because the assessments offset the appropriations, there is no fiscal impact.

Provisions

· Appropriates $924,778 and 8.5 FTEs in FY 2001-2002 and $940,611 and 8.5 FTEs in FY 2002-2003 from the state general fund to the Nuclear Emergency Management Fund for distribution to the following entities in the following amounts for the following purposes:

· $251,828 in FY 2001-2002 and $256,147 in FY 2002-2003 to DEMA’s Division of Emergency Management for administering and enforcing the state plan for off-site response to an emergency caused by an accident at a commercial nuclear generating station.

· $451,600 in FY 2001-2002 and $451,600 in FY 2002-2003 to the Radiation Regulatory Agency for programs relating to off-site nuclear emergency response plans.

· $189,799 in FY 2001-2002 and $201,313 in FY 2002-2003 for disbursement by DEMA’s Division of Emergency Management to departments and agencies of Maricopa County assigned responsibilities under the off-site nuclear emergency response plan.

· $31,551 in FY 2001-2002 and $31,551 in FY 2002-2003 for disbursement by DEMA’s Division of Emergency Management to departments and agencies of the town of Buckeye assigned responsibilities under the off-site nuclear emergency response plan.

· Levies an assessment in both FY 2001-2002 and FY 2002-2003 on consortiums of public service corporations who are engaged in constructing or operating a commercial nuclear generating station in this state. This assessment generates revenues in both years which offset the state general fund appropriations made by the bill for the purposes of developing, maintaining and supporting the state nuclear emergency plan.

· Contains an emergency clause.

SB 1013 passed the Appropriations Committee unamended.

SB 1013 passed the Committee of the Whole unamended.

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44th Legislature