First Substitute S.B. 198

Senator Terry R. Spencer proposes to substitute the following bill:

1 HIGH-LEVEL NUCLEAR WASTE
2 APPROPRIATION
3 2001 GENERAL SESSION
4 STATE OF UTAH
5 Sponsor: Terry R. Spencer
6 This act appropriates, over two fiscal years, $1,600,000 from the General Fund to the
7 Department of Environmental Quality to be used to oppose the off site storage of high-level
8 or greater than class C nuclear waste within the exterior boundaries of the state. This act
9 appropriates $600,000 as a one-time appropriation for fiscal year 2000-01, and the effective
10 date for this appropriation is April 30, 2001. This act also appropriates $1,000,000 as an
11 ongoing appropriation for fiscal year 2001-02, and the effective date for this appropriation
12 is July 1, 2001. Both appropriations are nonlapsing.
13 This act enacts uncodified material.
14 Be it enacted by the Legislature of the state of Utah:
15 Section 1. Appropriation for fiscal year 2000-01.
16 (1) For fiscal year 2000-01 only, there is appropriated $600,000 from the General Fund
17 to the Department of Environmental Quality.
18 (2) It is the intent of the Legislature that this appropriation be used by the department,
19 acting in consultation with the office of the governor, to oppose and prevent the off site storage
20 or transportation of high-level or greater than class C nuclear waste within the exterior borders of
21 the state.
22 (3) This appropriation is nonlapsing.
23 Section 2. Appropriation for fiscal year 2001-02.
24 (1) For fiscal year 2001-02, there is appropriated, as an ongoing appropriation, $1,000,000
25 from the General Fund to the Department of Environmental Quality.

26 (2) It is the intent of the Legislature that this appropriation be used by the department,
27 acting in consultation with the office of the governor, to oppose and prevent the off site storage
28 or transportation of high-level or greater than class C nuclear waste within the exterior borders of
29 the state.
30 (3) This appropriation is nonlapsing.
31 Section 3. Effective date.
32 (1) Section 1. takes effect on April 30, 2001.
33 (2) Section 2. takes effect on July 1, 2001.