This website will be unavailable from Friday, April 26, 2024 at 6:00 p.m. through Monday, April 29, 2024 at 7:00 a.m. due to data center maintenance.
Amend Floor Amendment No. 1 by Seliger to CSSB 791 as follows:
(1) Strike SECTION 5 of the amendment.
(2) In SECTION 7 of the amendment, in added Section 401.207(d-1), Health and Safety Code (page 4, line 7), strike "in the third operational year" and substitute "September 1, 2015".
(3) In SECTION 7 of the amendment, in added Section 401.207(d-1), Health and Safety Code (page 4, lines 13 through 16), strike the last sentence of the subsection and substitute the following:
Before establishing requirements for volume reduction of low-level radioactive waste streams, the commission must first determine that there are at least two unaffiliated companies in operation in the United States marketplace that offer low-level radioactive waste volume reduction for each stream. In this subsection, "unaffiliated" means not associated with one another as a subordinate, subsidiary, or member.
(4) In SECTION 7 of the amendment, strike amended Section 401.207(e), Health and Safety Code (page 4, lines 17 through 27), and substitute the following:
(e) The compact waste disposal facility license holder may not enter into a contract for the disposal of nonparty low-level radioactive waste that has been designated as Class A low-level radioactive waste under 10 C.F.R. Section 61.55 and commission rule [accept more than 50,000 total cubic feet of nonparty compact waste annually]. In the state fiscal year beginning September 1, 2013, the [The] compact waste disposal facility license holder may not accept more than 300,000 [120,000] curies of nonparty compact waste. In the state fiscal years beginning September 1, 2014, and September 1, 2015, [annually, except that in the first year] the license holder may not accept more than 220,000 curies of nonparty compact waste annually. In the state fiscal year beginning September 1, 2016, the compact waste disposal facility license holder may not accept more than 120,000 curies of nonparty compact waste. The legislature by general law may establish revised limits after considering the results of the study under Section 401.208.
(5) Add the following SECTION to the amendment:
SECTION ____. Section 401.208(c), Health and Safety Code, is amended to read as follows:
(c) Not later than December 1, 2016 [2012], the commission shall submit a final report of the results of the study to the standing committees of the senate and the house of representatives with jurisdiction over the disposal of low-level radioactive waste.
(6) In SECTION 9 of the amendment, in added Section 401.218(d), Health and Safety Code (page 5, line 16), strike "or other study".
(7) In SECTION 9 of the amendment, in added Section 401.218(d), Health and Safety Code (page 5, line 22), strike "or other study".
(8) In SECTION 15 of the amendment, in added Section 401.307, Health and Safety Code (page 10, between lines 22 and 23), insert the following:
(c) Notwithstanding Subsection (a), a fee imposed by the commission under Section 401.301(d) on the holder of a license authorizing the extraction, processing, or concentration of uranium or thorium from ore is suspended when the amount in the environmental radiation and perpetual care account attributable to those fees reaches $2 million. If the amount in that account attributable to those fees is reduced to $1.5 million or less, the fee is reinstated until the amount reaches $2 million.
(9) Renumber the SECTIONS of the amendment accordingly.