Section 103. General functions, powers and duties of council

The council
  shall have the following functions, powers and duties:
    1. To advise the governor and the legislature with regard to  programs
  for  the regulation and control of atomic energy activities, and to make
  recommendations to the governor and the legislature designed  to  assure
  that  the  regulatory  programs  of  the  state, including its political
  subdivisions,  affecting  atomic   energy   activities   encourage   the
  development  and  use  of atomic energy for peaceful purposes within the
  state, while fully protecting the interest, health  and  safety  of  the
  public.
    2. To advise and assist the governor and the legislature in developing
  and  implementing  state  policies  and  programs for the regulation and
  control of atomic energy activities.
    3.  To  coordinate  the  regulatory  programs  of  the  agencies,  and
  instrumentalities  of  the  state  and  its  political  subdivisions and
  agencies of such subdivisions, affecting atomic energy  activities,  and
  to  correlate  such programs with the regulatory programs of the federal
  government and other states.
    4. To develop  a  coordinated  position  with  respect  to  regulatory
  programs of the federal government affecting atomic energy activities in
  the  state,  taking  into  account  the  interests  of  all agencies and
  instrumentalities of the  state  and  its  political  subdivisions,  and
  agencies  of  such  subdivisions; to coordinate the participation of all
  such bodies in  the  regulatory  processes  of  the  federal  government
  relating to such regulatory programs; and to coordinate the presentation
  of  views  concerning  such  regulatory  programs of all such bodies for
  consideration by the federal government.
    5. To consider,  in  cooperation  and  consultation  with  appropriate
  officials  of  other  states,  existing  interstate compacts relating to
  regulation of atomic energy activities and adaptations, modifications or
  changes of such compacts and new  compacts  or  other  arrangements  for
  cooperation,  coordination  or  joint or mutual action by this state and
  other states, with respect to regulation of  atomic  energy  activities,
  and  to  make  such recommendations with respect thereto to the governor
  and the legislature as the council deems appropriate.
    6. To carry out the obligations of the state to  the  New  York  state
  atomic  and space development authority under any contract providing for
  the assumption of jurisdiction in the event of conditions  specified  in
  any  such  contract  over  land and facilities held or developed by such
  authority for the concentration and storage of  radioactive  byproducts;
  to enter into amendments to any such contract subject to the approval of
  the   director  of  the  budget;  and,  after  any  such  assumption  of
  jurisdiction  by  the  council,  pursuant  to  any  such   contract   or
  amendments, to operate, develop and manage in the name of the state such
  land  and  facilities,  and  to care for, manage, use and dispose of any
  radioactive  byproducts  concentrated  or  stored  at  such   land   and
  facilities.
    7.   To   review   periodically  the  programs  of  the  agencies  and
  instrumentalities of the state and political subdivisions  thereof,  and
  agencies  of  such  subdivisions, for responding, handling and providing
  assistance, in the event of an accident, fire or  disaster  believed  to
  involve  radioactive  materials  and  to  make such recommendations with
  respect to such programs  as  the  council  deems  appropriate  to  such
  bodies.