STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 1400 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN SENATE January 14, 2019 ___________ Introduced by Sen. CARLUCCI -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Veterans, Homeland Securi- ty and Military Affairs 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; 23 (d) the feasibility of evacuating areas near the power plant; 24 (e) the role of public safety and school personnel in safely returning 25 school children with their parents; EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD06464-01-9S. 1400 2 1 (f) the protection of food and water from contamination; 2 (g) the evacuation of people from hospitals and other institutions; 3 (h) the evacuation of individuals with special needs or those who 4 require special attention; 5 (i) the length of time that an area should be evacuated for; 6 (j) the opportunities where state and local agencies and the private 7 sector can coordinate and cooperate in a nuclear power plant disaster; 8 (k) the availability and distribution of potassium iodine to individ- 9 uals in areas affected by a nuclear power plant disaster; 10 (1) the use of technology in disaster preparedness; 11 (m) the overall effectiveness of the nuclear power plant disaster 12 preparedness plans; and 13 (n) the ability to communicate between relevant federal entities, 14 state and local entities and power plant operators and the general 15 public. 16 2. Such study shall be submitted to the governor, the temporary presi- 17 dent of the senate, and the speaker of the assembly by December 31, 2019 18 and shall be publicly posted on the Division of Homeland Security and 19 Emergency Services' website. 20 3. The Commissioner of the Division of Homeland Security and Emergency 21 Services may request, and is authorized to receive, any information from 22 any state agencies that is relevant and material to the completion of 23 such study. Such information received by the Commissioner of the Divi- 24 sion of Homeland Security and Emergency Services shall be subject to the 25 same requirements for confidentiality and limitations on use, if any, as 26 are applicable to such state agency's use of such information. 27 4. The Commissioner of the Division of Homeland Security and Emergency 28 Services is authorized to use existing Division of Homeland Security and 29 Emergency Services' funds to carry out the provisions of this section. 30 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.