NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1973 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 451

SENATE BILL 892

 

 

AN ACT TO AMEND G.S. 105-275(6) RELATING TO EXCLUSIONS FROM THE AD VALOREM TAX BASE FOR SPECIAL NUCLEAR MATERIALS IN THE PROCESS OF REPROCESSING.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 105-275(6), as the same appears in Chapter 290 of the 1973 Session Laws, is hereby amended as follows:

(a)        by inserting in line 2 of G.S. 105-275(6), before the word "processing" the word "or"; and

(b)        by striking out of lines 2 and 3 of G.S. 105-275(6) the words "or reprocessing"; and

(c)        by inserting in line 5 of G.S. 105-275(6) immediately before the word "processor" the word "or"; and

(d)        by striking out of line 5 of G.S. 105-275(6) the words ", or reprocessor"; and

(e)        by striking out of line 6 of G.S. 105-275(6) the word "plutonium,"; and

(f)         by adding at line 14 of G.S. 105-275(6) the following:

"The classification and exclusion provided for herein shall be denied to any manufacturer, fabricator or processor who permits burial of such material in North Carolina or who permits the discharge of such nuclear materials into the air or into any river, creek or stream in North Carolina if such discharge would contravene in any way the applicable health and safety standards established and enforced by the North Carolina State Board of Health, the North Carolina Department of Natural and Economic Resources, or the Federal Atomic Energy Commission. The most stringent of these standards shall govern."

Sec. 2.  This act shall become effective on January 1, 1974.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 11th day of May, 1973.