CHAPTER 254

S.P. 469 - L.D. 1342

An Act Reducing Oversight Expense for Decommissioning

Nuclear Power Plants To Benefit Electric Ratepayers

Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:

PART A

Sec. A-1. 35-A MRSA c. 43, sub-c. 2, as amended, is repealed.

Sec. A-2. 35-A MRSA c. 43, sub-c. 6 is enacted to read:

SUBCHAPTER 6

POST-DECOMMISSIONING OVERSIGHT FEES

§4395.__State assessment

Any licensee operating an interim spent fuel storage facility in this State shall pay a fixed annual fee to cover all present and reasonably foreseeable future state fees, costs and assessments with respect to the licensee, including, but not limited to:__the costs of any commission investigation; the commission's participation in wholesale rate proceedings; safety, radiation and environmental monitoring; and security oversight- related costs.__This annual fee consolidates the various fees and assessments imposed by the State on the licensee.__The amount of the fixed payment is as follows: