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SB0544eng 99TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY



 


 
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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 99th 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 99th 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 99th General Assembly shall assign or
18transfer the obligation to pay any nuclear storage impact fee
19imposed pursuant to this Section.