S 2999

This bill amends New York's executive law to expand emergency preparedness funding requirements to include decommissioned nuclear power plants that store spent fuel. While operating nuclear facilities currently pay an annual fee of $1 million per reactor to support state and local radiological emergency preparedness, the bill establishes a new fee structure for inactive, decommissioned sites of $1,000 per spent fuel rod stored on premises. The legislation also expands the state's monitoring and data collection authority to include these decommissioned facilities, ensuring that counties hosting non-operational nuclear plants with stored spent fuel continue to receive funding for emergency management services and radiological monitoring equipment.