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| | 100TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2017 and 2018
SB1872 Introduced 2/9/2017, by Sen. Melinda Bush SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
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Amends the Illinois Nuclear Facility Safety Act. Provides that any municipality may establish and collect a nuclear storage impact fee from the entity that operated a nuclear facility within the boundaries of the municipality. Provides that the nuclear storage impact fee shall only be imposed on nuclear facilities that ceased generating electricity on or before the effective date of this amendatory Act. Provides that the fee shall be charged to the entity that operated a nuclear facility within the boundaries of the municipality immediately before the nuclear facility ceased to generate electricity. Provides that the nuclear storage impact fee can only be applied prospectively. Provides that in any calendar year, the nuclear storage impact fee shall not exceed 25% of the average annual amount of property taxes paid to the municipality by the entity that operated the nuclear facility during the last 5 years that the nuclear facility was operational. Provides that the municipality shall conduct a public hearing before imposing the nuclear storage impact fees. Provides that the revenue collected from the fees shall be used to offset property taxes for owners of property within the boundaries of the municipality. Provides that no sale, assignment, lease, or decommissioning agreement that was executed after a nuclear facility ceased generating electricity and before the effective date of this amendatory Act shall assign or transfer the obligation to pay any nuclear storage impact fee imposed. | |
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| 1 | | AN ACT concerning safety.
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| 2 | | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, |
| 3 | | represented in the General Assembly:
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| 4 | | Section 5. The Illinois Nuclear Facility Safety Act is |
| 5 | | amended by adding Section 10 as follows:
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| 6 | | (420 ILCS 10/10 new) |
| 7 | | Sec. 10. Municipal nuclear storage impact fees. |
| 8 | | (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the |
| 9 | | contrary, any municipality may establish and collect a nuclear |
| 10 | | storage impact fee from the entity that operated a nuclear |
| 11 | | facility within the boundaries of the municipality. The nuclear |
| 12 | | storage impact fee shall only be imposed on nuclear facilities |
| 13 | | that ceased generating electricity on or before the effective |
| 14 | | date of this amendatory Act of the 100th General Assembly. |
| 15 | | (b) The fee established under this Section shall be charged |
| 16 | | to the entity that operated a nuclear facility within the |
| 17 | | boundaries of the municipality immediately before the nuclear |
| 18 | | facility ceased to generate electricity. The nuclear storage |
| 19 | | impact fee can only be applied prospectively on or after the |
| 20 | | effective date of this amendatory Act of the 100th General |
| 21 | | Assembly and cannot be applied retroactively to the date that |
| 22 | | the nuclear facility ceased operations. |
| 23 | | (c) In any calendar year, the nuclear storage impact fee |