Bill Text: NY A06512 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended

New York Assembly Bill 6512 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Establishes the nuclear power plant disaster preparedness plans study.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 9-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-01-19 - print number 6512a [A06512 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A06512-Amended.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
                                         6512--A
                               2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                     March 26, 2015
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by M. of A. CRESPO -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. ARROYO,
          AUBRY, BARRON, CLARK, GALEF, JAFFEE, RODRIGUEZ, ROSENTHAL,  WEPRIN  --
          read  once and referred to the Committee on Governmental Operations --
          recommitted to the Committee on Governmental Operations in  accordance
          with  Assembly  Rule  3, sec. 2 -- committee discharged, bill amended,
          ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
        AN ACT establishing the nuclear power plant preparedness plans study
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  Nuclear power plant disaster preparedness plans study. 1.
     2  The Commissioner of the Division  of  Homeland  Security  and  Emergency
     3  Services,  in consultation with the disaster preparedness commission and
     4  any other entity the Commissioner of the Division of  Homeland  Security
     5  and  Emergency Services deems appropriate, shall study and review disas-
     6  ter preparedness plans as they relate to nuclear power plants for effec-
     7  tiveness. The study of such disaster preparedness plans  shall  include,
     8  but not be limited to, the following:
     9    (a) the time necessary to evacuate the area within a fifty mile radius
    10  of the plant, in addition to any other determined radius, with consider-
    11  ation of:
    12    (i) the severity of the nuclear power plant disaster
    13    (ii) the population residing in such area
    14    (iii) existing transportation networks
    15    (iv) any other considerations that are deemed relevant;
    16    (b) the amount of area that should be evacuated with consideration of:
    17    (i) the severity of the nuclear power plant disaster
    18    (ii) the population residing in such area
    19    (iii) existing transportation networks
    20    (iv) any other considerations that are deemed relevant;
    21    (c)  the  locations where people may be evacuated to in the event of a
    22  disaster;
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD05559-03-6