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| 2 | 2 | | SENATE DOCKET, NO. 216 FILED ON: 1/12/2023 |
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| 3 | 3 | | SENATE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No. 1498 |
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| 4 | 4 | | The Commonwealth of Massachusetts |
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| 5 | 5 | | _________________ |
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| 6 | 6 | | PRESENTED BY: |
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| 7 | 7 | | Julian Cyr, (BY REQUEST) |
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| 8 | 8 | | _________________ |
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| 9 | 9 | | To the Honorable Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in General |
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| 10 | 10 | | Court assembled: |
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| 11 | 11 | | The undersigned legislators and/or citizens respectfully petition for the adoption of the accompanying bill: |
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| 12 | 12 | | An Act to improve public health and safety standards in communities around aging nuclear |
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| 13 | 13 | | power plants and high-level nuclear waste dump sites. |
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| 14 | 14 | | _______________ |
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| 15 | 15 | | PETITION OF: |
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| 16 | 16 | | NAME:DISTRICT/ADDRESS :Diane Turco, Executive Director of |
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| 17 | 17 | | the Cape Downwinders |
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| 18 | 18 | | Lindsay N. Sabadosa1st Hampshire2/22/2023Michael O. MooreSecond Worcester2/22/2023 1 of 2 |
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| 19 | 19 | | SENATE DOCKET, NO. 216 FILED ON: 1/12/2023 |
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| 20 | 20 | | SENATE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No. 1498 |
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| 21 | 21 | | By Mr. Cyr (by request), a petition (accompanied by bill, Senate, No. 1498) of Diane Turco, |
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| 22 | 22 | | Executive Director of the Cape Downwinders, Lindsay N. Sabadosa and Michael O. Moore for |
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| 23 | 23 | | legislation to improve public health and safety standards in communities around aging nuclear |
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| 24 | 24 | | power plants and high-level nuclear waste dump sites. Public Safety and Homeland Security. |
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| 25 | 25 | | [SIMILAR MATTER FILED IN PREVIOUS SESSION |
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| 26 | 26 | | SEE SENATE, NO. 2619 OF 2021-2022.] |
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| 27 | 27 | | The Commonwealth of Massachusetts |
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| 28 | 28 | | _______________ |
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| 29 | 29 | | In the One Hundred and Ninety-Third General Court |
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| 30 | 30 | | (2023-2024) |
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| 31 | 31 | | _______________ |
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| 32 | 32 | | An Act to improve public health and safety standards in communities around aging nuclear |
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| 33 | 33 | | power plants and high-level nuclear waste dump sites. |
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| 34 | 34 | | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority |
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| 35 | 35 | | of the same, as follows: |
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| 36 | 36 | | 1 Section 2B of chapter 639 of the acts of 1950 is hereby amended by striking the first |
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| 37 | 37 | | 2paragraph and inserting the following:- |
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| 38 | 38 | | 3 The director shall designate certain areas of the commonwealth as “nuclear power plant |
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| 39 | 39 | | 4areas”. For the purposes of this section, said areas shall consist of all communities located within |
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| 40 | 40 | | 5a fifty (50) mile radius of any nuclear power plant or inactive nuclear power plant storing nuclear |
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| 41 | 41 | | 6waste in a spent fuel pool or an Independent Spent Fuel Storage Installation until all the nuclear |
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| 42 | 42 | | 7waste leaves the site. This designation shall apply whether or not said NNP area is located within |
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| 43 | 43 | | 8the commonwealth. Such assessments may be made against active facilities, or inactive nuclear |
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| 44 | 44 | | 9power facilities that harbor spent nuclear fuel, high-level waste, or other nuclear material in spent 2 of 2 |
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| 45 | 45 | | 10fuel pool or in an Independent Spent Fuel Storage Installation until the nuclear waste leaves the |
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| 46 | 46 | | 11site. |
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