HF 3519
1st Committee Engrossment - 86th Legislature (2009 - 2010)
Posted on 03/19/2013 07:29 p.m.
KEY: stricken = removed, old language.
underscored = added, new language.
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1.1A bill for an act
1.2relating to public health; establishing a work group to design a plan to monitor air
1.3and groundwater emissions from the Prairie Island nuclear plant; contracting for
1.4design of a monitoring network to measure thermal discharges from the Prairie
1.5Island nuclear plant; requiring reports; appropriating money.
1.6BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:
1.7 Section 1. new text begin PRAIRIE ISLAND NUCLEAR PLANT MONITORING NETWORK new text end
1.8new text begin WORK GROUP.new text end
1.9 new text begin Subdivision 1.new text end new text begin Establishment; membership.new text end new text begin (a) The commissioner of health new text end
1.10new text begin shall, by July 1, 2010, convene a work group to make recommendations to the legislature new text end
1.11new text begin regarding the establishment of a monitoring network to measure the levels of radioactive new text end
1.12new text begin emissions to air, surface water, and groundwater originating from the operation of the new text end
1.13new text begin Prairie Island nuclear generating plant and the adjacent independent spent-fuel storage new text end
1.14new text begin installation.new text end
1.15new text begin (b) The commissioner of health shall appoint the members of the work group, new text end
1.16new text begin which consists of:new text end
1.17new text begin (1) the commissioners of health and natural resources, or their designees;new text end
1.18new text begin (2) a representative of the Wisconsin Department of Health Services responsible new text end
1.19new text begin for the department's Prairie Island Radioactivity Survey;new text end
1.20new text begin (3) a hydrogeologist from the Minnesota Geological Survey;new text end
1.21new text begin (4) an independent health physicist;new text end
1.22new text begin (5) a person from the Pollution Control Agency with experience designing air new text end
1.23new text begin monitoring networks;new text end
1.24new text begin (6) a person from the Pollution Control Agency with experience designing new text end
1.25new text begin groundwater monitoring networks;new text end
2.1new text begin (7) ... representatives from the Prairie Island Indian Community;new text end
2.2new text begin (8) ... representatives from the city of Red Wing;new text end
2.3new text begin (9) one representative of the Xcel Energy Prairie Island nuclear generating plant;new text end
2.4new text begin (10) one representative each from Goodhue County, Minnesota, and Pierce County, new text end
2.5new text begin Wisconsin;new text end
2.6new text begin (11) one representative representing Lake City and one representative representing new text end
2.7new text begin each of the townships of Florence, Wacouta, and Hay Creek; andnew text end
2.8new text begin (12) one representative from an environmental organization.new text end
2.9new text begin (c) The Department of Health shall provide logistical and administrative support new text end
2.10new text begin to the work group.new text end
2.11new text begin (d) A professional facilitator with experience in facilitating technical stakeholder new text end
2.12new text begin processes shall be engaged to assist the work group in carrying out its duties under new text end
2.13new text begin subdivision 2.new text end
2.14 new text begin Subd. 2.new text end new text begin Charge.new text end new text begin The work group is charged with designing a comprehensive, new text end
2.15new text begin continuous monitoring network to accurately measure the levels of radioactive emissions new text end
2.16new text begin to air, surface water, and groundwater originating from the operation of the Prairie Island new text end
2.17new text begin nuclear generating plant and the adjacent independent spent-fuel storage installation, new text end
2.18new text begin including:new text end
2.19new text begin (1) selecting appropriate monitoring technologies to be installed;new text end
2.20new text begin (2) determining the proper number and location of monitors, taking site new text end
2.21new text begin characteristics and the location of vulnerable populations into account;new text end
2.22new text begin (3) selecting public and private wells to test for groundwater contamination;new text end
2.23new text begin (4) selecting parameters to be measured at each monitoring site;new text end
2.24new text begin (5) establishing protocols for testing monitor precision and accuracy; andnew text end
2.25new text begin (6) providing for regular reporting of emissions.new text end
2.26 new text begin Subd. 3.new text end new text begin Report.new text end new text begin By February 1, 2011, the work group shall submit a report to the new text end
2.27new text begin members of the senate and house of representatives committees with primary jurisdiction new text end
2.28new text begin over energy policy and public health containing the work group's recommendations for a new text end
2.29new text begin monitoring network that meets the requirements of subdivision 2. The report shall also new text end
2.30new text begin contain estimates of the cost of the recommended monitoring network, for both capital new text end
2.31new text begin acquisitions and operations, including the costs of laboratory analysis of samples.new text end
2.32 Sec. 2. new text begin DEVELOPMENT OF MONITORING NETWORK FOR THERMAL new text end
2.33new text begin DISCHARGES FROM PRAIRIE ISLAND NUCLEAR PLANT.new text end
2.34new text begin (a) The commissioner of health shall contract with the University of Minnesota new text end
2.35new text begin St. Anthony Falls Laboratory or other comparable independent experts to develop a new text end
3.1new text begin comprehensive plan to monitor the thermal discharge from the Prairie Island nuclear new text end
3.2new text begin generating plant to the Mississippi River to enable accurate analysis of the impacts of new text end
3.3new text begin the discharge on aquatic ecosystems, dissolved oxygen levels, ice conditions, and the new text end
3.4new text begin ecology of the Mississippi River and Lake Pepin. The plan must contain, at a minimum, new text end
3.5new text begin recommendations on the number, type, and location of monitors to be installed, and the new text end
3.6new text begin capital and operating costs of the recommended network.new text end
3.7new text begin (b) The plan described in paragraph (a) must be contained in a report submitted no new text end
3.8new text begin later than November 15, 2010, to members of the senate and house of representatives new text end
3.9new text begin committees with primary jurisdiction over environmental policy and energy policy. new text end
3.10new text begin The report must also contain a discussion of potential measures that can be taken to new text end
3.11new text begin mitigate the thermal discharge from the Prairie Island nuclear generating plant, and the new text end
3.12new text begin estimated cost of each measure. Potential thermal discharge mitigation measures must be new text end
3.13new text begin provided to the Pollution Control Agency for consideration as potential conditions to be new text end
3.14new text begin incorporated in a permit modification requested by the Prairie Island nuclear generating new text end
3.15new text begin plant as a result of its proposed power uprate.new text end
3.16 Sec. 3. new text begin TRANSFER; APPROPRIATION.new text end
3.17new text begin (a) The public utility that owns the Prairie Island nuclear generating plant shall new text end
3.18new text begin transfer $....... from the revenues transferred to the renewable development account under new text end
3.19new text begin Minnesota Statutes, section 116C.779, to the commissioner of health for deposit in the new text end
3.20new text begin special revenue fund.new text end
3.21new text begin (b) From the money transferred to and deposited in the special revenue fund under new text end
3.22new text begin paragraph (a), an amount sufficient to cover the costs associated with the work group new text end
3.23new text begin established in section 1 and the contract required in section 2 is appropriated to the new text end
3.24new text begin commissioner of health for the purposes of sections 1 and 2.new text end
3.25 Sec. 4. new text begin EFFECTIVE DATE.new text end
3.26new text begin Sections 1 to 3 are effective the day following final enactment.new text end