In particular, Part A of the bill establishes a single assessment to be paid by the licensee for all state activities related to the site, including safety, radiation and environmental monitoring and security. The single annual payment to the State is $360,000 for calendar years 2006 and 2007 and $170,000 every year thereafter until the spent fuel is removed from the site and the interim spent fuel storage installation is finally decommissioned. Part A also eliminates the requirement in the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 35-A for particular monitoring and reporting of routine radioactive releases, which no longer occur.

Part B of the bill eliminates funding for the State Nuclear Safety Inspector position effective September 2005, as well as the various fees associated with specific testing and monitoring programs.

Part C eliminates, after the payment made in July 2005, the requirement that Maine Yankee reimburse the Department of Environmental Protection for costs incurred by the department in conducting activities related to the decommissioning. All fees eliminated in the bill are consolidated into the single assessment imposed in Part A of the bill, to be allocated by the State at its discretion.

The Department of Health and Human Services and the Department of Environmental Protection continue to be the primary agencies responsible for continued oversight of these activities.