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Nuclear Safety Preparedness Program Assessment
SECTION 414.
Notwithstanding the provisions of any general or special law to the contrary, the cost of the nuclear safety preparedness program provided for in item 8800-0100 in section 2 of this act, including associated indirect costs and fringe benefits, shall be assessed upon nuclear regulatory commission licensees operating nuclear power generating facilities in the commonwealth. The department of telecommunications and energy shall develop an equitable method of apportioning said assessments among said licensees. Said assessments shall be paid during the current fiscal year as provided by said department.
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Seabrook Nuclear Power Plant Monitoring Assessment
SECTION 415.
Funds from item 8800-0300 in section 2 of this act may be used for environmental monitoring of the nuclear power plant in Seabrook, New Hampshire, including a continuous real-time radiological monitoring system for Massachusetts cities and towns located within the emergency planning zone of said plant. The cost of said monitoring as provided for in item 8800-0300, including fringe benefits and indirect costs, shall be assessed upon electric companies in Massachusetts which own, in whole or in part, or purchase power from said plant. For the purposes of this section, electric companies shall be defined as all persons, firms, associations, and private corporations which own or operate works or distribute electricity in the commonwealth, but shall not include municipalities or municipal light plants.
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Radiological Emergency Response Plan Assessment
SECTION 416.
Notwithstanding the provisions of any general or special law to the contrary, the cost of the radiological emergency response plan evaluations as provided for in item 8800-0200 in section 2 of this act, including associated fringe benefits and indirect costs, shall be assessed upon electric companies in the commonwealth which own, in whole or in part, or purchase power from, nuclear power plants located outside the commonwealth whose nuclear power plant areas, as defined in section 2B of chapter 639 of the acts of 1950, include communities located within the commonwealth. Said assessments shall be credited to the General Fund. For the purposes of this section, the term "electric companies" shall mean all persons, firms, associations, and private corporations which own or operate works or a distributing plant for the manufacture and sale or distribution and sale of electricity within the commonwealth, but shall not include municipalities or municipal light plants.
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