101ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2019 and 2020
SB0036

 

Introduced 1/10/2019, by Sen. Melinda Bush

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
420 ILCS 10/10 new

    Amends the Illinois Nuclear Facility Safety Act. Provides that any municipality may establish and collect a nuclear storage impact fee from the entity that operated a nuclear facility within the boundaries of the municipality. Provides that the nuclear storage impact fee shall only be imposed on nuclear facilities that ceased generating electricity on or before the effective date of this amendatory Act. Provides that the fee shall be charged to the entity that operated a nuclear facility within the boundaries of the municipality immediately before the nuclear facility ceased to generate electricity. Provides that the nuclear storage impact fee can only be applied prospectively. Provides that in any calendar year, the nuclear storage impact fee shall not exceed 25% of the average annual amount of property taxes paid to the municipality by the entity that operated the nuclear facility during the last 5 years that the nuclear facility was operational. Provides that the municipality shall conduct a public hearing before imposing the nuclear storage impact fees. Provides that the revenue collected from the fees shall be used to offset property taxes for owners of property within the boundaries of the municipality. Provides that no sale, assignment, lease, or decommissioning agreement that was executed after a nuclear facility ceased generating electricity and before the effective date of this amendatory Act shall assign or transfer the obligation to pay any nuclear storage impact fee imposed.


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A BILL FOR

 

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1    AN ACT concerning safety.
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3represented in the General Assembly:
 
4    Section 5. The Illinois Nuclear Facility Safety Act is
5amended by adding Section 10 as follows:
 
6    (420 ILCS 10/10 new)
7    Sec. 10. Municipal nuclear storage impact fees.
8    (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the
9contrary, any municipality may establish and collect a nuclear
10storage impact fee from the entity that operated a nuclear
11facility within the boundaries of the municipality. The nuclear
12storage impact fee shall only be imposed on nuclear facilities
13that ceased generating electricity on or before the effective
14date of this amendatory Act of the 101st General Assembly.
15    (b) The fee established under this Section shall be charged
16to the entity that operated a nuclear facility within the
17boundaries of the municipality immediately before the nuclear
18facility ceased to generate electricity. The nuclear storage
19impact fee can only be applied prospectively on or after the
20effective date of this amendatory Act of the 101st General
21Assembly and cannot be applied retroactively to the date that
22the nuclear facility ceased operations.
23    (c) In any calendar year, the nuclear storage impact fee

 

 

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1shall not exceed 25% of the average annual amount of property
2taxes paid to the municipality by the entity that operated the
3nuclear facility during the last 5 years that the nuclear
4facility was operational.
5    (d) The municipality shall conduct a public hearing before
6imposing the nuclear storage impact fees permitted under this
7Section. The hearing shall be held within the boundaries of the
8municipality. Notice of the time, place, and purpose of the
9hearing shall be given at least 10 days before the date of the
10hearing.
11    (e) The revenue collected under this Section shall be used
12to offset property taxes for owners of property within the
13boundaries of the municipality.
14    (f) No sale, assignment, lease, or decommissioning
15agreement that was executed after a nuclear facility ceased
16generating electricity and before the effective date of this
17amendatory Act of the 101st General Assembly shall assign or
18transfer the obligation to pay any nuclear storage impact fee
19imposed pursuant to this Section.