Bill Text: MN SF4 | 2011-2012 | 87th Legislature | Engrossed

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Bill Title: Nuclear power plant decommissioning and spent fuel disposal monitoring and regulation and certificate of need issuance prohibition elimination

Sponsorship: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 36-4)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2012-04-16 - Senate conferees Koch; Rosen; Rest [SF4 Detail]

Download: Minnesota-2011-SF4-Engrossed.html

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A bill for an act

relating to energy; abolishing prohibition on issuing certificate of need for new
nuclear power plant;amending Minnesota Statutes 2010, section 216B.243,
subdivision 3b.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

    Section 1. Minnesota Statutes 2010, section 216B.243, subdivision 3b, is amended to
read:
    Subd. 3b. Nuclear power plant; new construction prohibited; relicensing
Additional storage of spent nuclear fuel. (a) The commission may not issue a certificate
of need for the construction of a new nuclear-powered electric generating plant.
(b) Any certificate of need for additional storage of spent nuclear fuel for a facility
seeking a license extension shall address the impacts of continued operations over the
period for which approval is sought.
EFFECTIVE DATE.This section is effective the day following final enactment.