Section 29-0509. Aid to local governments


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  • No  later  than the first day of April, nineteen hundred eighty-seven,
      the department shall submit to the legislature and the governor a report
      recommending appropriate forms of state aid to local governmental  units
      within   the   boundaries  of  which  any  low-level  radioactive  waste
      management facilities may be located. Such report shall be developed  by
      the department and shall:
        1. describe the nature of the probable impacts upon local governmental
      units,  including  both  impacts  normally  expected  from the presence,
      construction, operation, maintenance, closure, and post-closure care  of
      such low-level radioactive waste management facilities and impacts which
      might  result  from  an  emergency  or  other  abnormal or unusual event
      associated with the operation,  maintenance,  closure,  or  post-closure
      care of such low-level radioactive waste facilities;
        2.  describe  the  possible  forms or kinds of aid or assistance which
      might be appropriate to mitigate or provide  off-setting  benefits  with
      respect  to  each of the kinds of probable impacts on local governmental
      units identified pursuant to this section; and
        3.  set  forth  the  department's  specific  recommendations  to   the
      legislature  and the governor for the forms or kinds of state assistance
      to local governmental units to mitigate or provide off-setting  benefits
      with  respect  to  such  impacts,  together  with  the  reasons  for the
      department's specific recommendations.