Bill Text: TX SB1021 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating to the operations of the Texas Low-Level Radioactive Waste Disposal Compact waste disposal facility.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 2)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-04-10 - Placed on intent calendar [SB1021 Detail]

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86R11222 SLB-F
By: Seliger S.B. No. 1021

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the operations of the Texas Low-Level Radioactive Waste
Disposal Compact waste disposal facility.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Subchapter F, Chapter 401, Health and Safety
Code, is amended by adding Sections 401.2065 and 401.2066 to read as
follows:
Sec. 401.2065. RESERVED CAPACITY FOR PARTY STATE WASTE.
(a) The following are reserved for the exclusive use of party state
compact waste disposal in the compact waste disposal facility:
(1) the greater of:
(A) three million total cubic feet; and
(B) the required volume identified by the
commission under Section 401.208; and
(2) the greater of:
(A) two million total curies; and
(B) the required curie capacity identified by the
commission under Section 401.208.
(b) Of the reserved volume and curie capacity described by
Subsection (a):
(1) 80 percent is reserved for compact waste generated
in the host state; and
(2) 20 percent is reserved for compact waste generated
in nonhost party states.
Sec. 401.2066. CORRECTION FOR DECAY IN DETERMINING
CAPACITY. The commission shall correct for radioactive decay in
determining licensed disposal curie capacity in a compact waste
disposal facility under this subchapter.
SECTION 2. Sections 401.207(d) and (g), Health and Safety
Code, are amended to read as follows:
(d) The compact waste disposal facility license holder may
not accept for disposal at the compact waste disposal facility
nonparty compact waste that does not meet the waste characteristics
and waste forms for disposal applicable to compact waste as set
forth by the commission in the compact waste disposal facility
license. Before the license holder may accept nonparty compact
waste for disposal, the commission must certify [through a written
evaluation] that the waste is authorized for disposal under the
license. If the disposal is not authorized under the license, the
commission must inform the license holder of the license amendments
necessary to authorize the disposal.
(g) The commission shall assess a surcharge for the disposal
of nonparty compact waste at the compact waste disposal facility.
The surcharge is five [20] percent of the total contracted rate
under Section 401.2456 and must be assessed in addition to the total
contracted rate under that section.
SECTION 3. Subchapter F, Chapter 401, Health and Safety
Code, is amended by adding Section 401.2075 to read as follows:
Sec. 401.2075. LIMITATION ON NONPARTY COMPACT WASTE. (a)
The compact waste disposal facility license holder may accept
nonparty compact waste at the facility only if:
(1) the waste is authorized by the compact commission;
and
(2) the facility has not less than three years' worth
of constructed capacity based on the average amount of party state
compact waste disposed in the preceding five years, not including:
(A) low-level radioactive waste from
decommissioned nuclear electric generation facilities;
(B) oversized low-level radioactive waste
components; or
(C) low-level radioactive waste from
nonrecurring events.
(b) If a compact waste disposal facility does not have
sufficient constructed capacity as described by Subsection (a), in
order to be permitted to accept nonparty compact waste, the compact
waste disposal facility license holder must:
(1) add constructed capacity sufficient to meet the
requirements of Subsection (a);
(2) file and have approved by the commission a
performance bond acceptable to the commission conditioned on the
construction of additional constructed capacity sufficient to meet
the requirements of Subsection (a); or
(3) take an alternative action approved by a majority
of the nuclear electric generation utilities operating in the party
states.
(c) If a party state has notified the federal commission
that a nuclear electric generation facility located in the state
will be decommissioned, and the time-phased decommissioning
schedule and the Post-Shutdown Decommissioning Activities Report
indicate that low-level radioactive waste is to be disposed of at
the compact waste disposal facility, the compact waste disposal
facility license holder must have constructed adequate disposal
capacity at the time of the disposal of waste from the
decommissioning.
(d) The compact waste disposal facility license holder must
obtain an amendment to the facility operating license to increase
the allowable curie capacity by two million curies when the compact
waste disposal facility has reached 80 percent of the total curies
for which the facility is licensed.
SECTION 4. Subchapter F, Chapter 401, Health and Safety
Code, is amended by adding Section 401.2465 to read as follows:
Sec. 401.2465. WASTE DISPOSAL FEE COMPARISON. (a) The
compact waste disposal facility license holder shall conduct an
annual comparison of party state and nonparty state compact waste
disposal fees. The comparison:
(1) must include:
(A) the total invoiced compact waste disposal
fees;
(B) the total volume of compact waste disposed;
and
(C) an average disposal fee calculated by
dividing the total invoiced compact waste disposal fees by the
total volume of compact waste disposed; and
(2) may not include information regarding disposal
fees or disposal volume for:
(A) low-level radioactive waste from
decommissioned nuclear electric generation facilities;
(B) oversized low-level radioactive waste
components; or
(C) low-level radioactive waste from
nonrecurring events.
(b) If the average compact waste disposal fee charged to
party state generators exceeds the average compact waste disposal
fee charged to nonparty state generators, the compact waste
disposal facility license holder must issue a rebate for the
preceding year's fees to the party state generators in an amount
sufficient to reduce the average compact waste disposal fee charged
to party state generators after the rebate to $1 less than the
average compact waste disposal fee charged to nonparty state
generators.
(c) The compact waste disposal facility license holder
shall allocate the rebate issued under Subsection (b) according to
the fractional amount of the total compact waste disposal fees paid
by each generator based on the compact waste disposal facility
license holder's records for the preceding year.
(d) On written request of a nuclear electric generation
utility operating in a party state, the compact waste disposal
facility license holder shall:
(1) retain an independent auditor, who must be
approved by the compact waste disposal facility license holder and
the utility making the request, to evaluate the computation of the
average compact waste disposal fee and rebate described by this
section; and
(2) not later than the 90th day after the date the
license holder receives the final audit report, make a copy of the
report available to the requesting utility.
SECTION 5. Sections 401.271(a) and (b), Health and Safety
Code, are amended to read as follows:
(a) A holder of a license issued by the commission under
this chapter that authorizes the disposal of a radioactive
substance from other persons shall remit each quarter an amount
equal to five [10] percent of the license holder's gross receipts
received from disposal operations under the [a] license [issued
under this chapter that occur after the effective date of the Act
enacting this section as follows:
[(1) five percent shall be remitted to the comptroller
for deposit to the credit of the general revenue fund; and
[(2) five percent shall be remitted] to the host
county in accordance with Sections 401.244(b) and (d).
(b) Subsection (a) does not apply to [compact waste or
federal facility waste as defined by Section 401.2005 or]
industrial solid waste as defined by Section 361.003.
SECTION 6. The following provisions of the Health and
Safety Code are repealed:
(1) Section 401.202(c);
(2) Sections 401.207(d-1), (d-2), (d-3), (e), (e-1),
(e-2), (f), and (h-1);
(3) Section 401.241(b);
(4) Section 401.2445; and
(5) Sections 401.2456(b), (c), (d), and (e).
SECTION 7. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019.