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Senate Bill 89

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Title AN ACT relating to nuclear power.
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Bill Request Number 1105
Sponsor D. Carroll
Summary of Original Version Amend KRS 278.600 to require that nuclear power facilities have a plan for the storage of nuclear waste rather than a means of permanent disposal and to add definitions of "storage," "low-level nuclear waste," and "mixed nuclear waste"; amend KRS 278.610 to allow certification if the facility and its plans for waste storage are approved by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission; eliminate requirement that facility have a plan for disposal of high-level nuclear waste; eliminate requirement that cost of waste disposal be known; eliminate requirement that facility have adequate capacity to contain waste; give the Public Service Commission authority to hire consultant to perform duties relating to nuclear facility certification; prohibit construction of low-level nuclear waste disposal sites in Kentucky except as provided in KRS 211.852; direct the Energy and Environment Cabinet to review regulations required for permitting nuclear facilities and report to LRC; repeal KRS 278.605, relating to construction of nuclear power facilities.
Index Headings of Original Version Economic Development - Nuclear power facilities, certification of, and removal of construction moratorium
Energy - Nuclear power facilities, certification of, and removal of construction moratorium
Environment and Conservation - Energy and Environment Cabinet, nuclear power facility, review of regulations
Nuclear Energy - Nuclear power facilities, certification of, and removal of construction moratorium
Public Utilities - Power facility, nuclear, certification of
Administrative Regulations and Proceedings - Energy and Environment Cabinet, nuclear power facility, review of regulations
Studies Directed - Nuclear power facilities, review of regulations by Energy and Environment Cabinet
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01/11/16
  • introduced in Senate
01/13/16
  • to Natural Resources & Energy (S)
02/24/16
  • reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar
02/25/16
  • 2nd reading, to Rules
02/29/16
  • posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Tuesday, March 1, 2016
03/01/16
  • 3rd reading, passed 28-6-1
03/02/16
  • received in House
03/03/16
  • to Tourism Development & Energy (H)


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