Section 1854-C. Permanent disposal facilities

1.  The  authority shall
  consult and cooperate with the department of environmental  conservation
  and  the  commission  for  siting  low-level  radioactive waste disposal
  facilities pursuant to the provisions  of  article  twenty-nine  of  the
  environmental  conservation law and such department and commission shall
  make  available  to  the  authority  all  information  with  respect  to
  potential sites and disposal methods which may be relevant to the design
  of, or preparation of applications for state licenses, permits, or other
  approvals  for,  such  facilities. The authority shall make preparations
  for submitting  as  soon  as  practicable  applications  for  any  state
  licenses,  permits, or other approvals required for the construction and
  operation of permanent disposal facilities.
    2. Upon certification by the department of environmental  conservation
  of   siting  and  disposal  method  selections  for  permanent  disposal
  facilities pursuant to section 29-0105 of the environmental conservation
  law, the authority shall immediately complete development of and submit,
  as soon as practicable after such certification, but no later  than  the
  first  day of January nineteen hundred ninety, complete applications for
  any state  licenses,  permits,  or  other  approvals  required  for  the
  construction  and  operation  of  such permanent disposal facilities, in
  accordance with the siting and disposal  method  certification  of  such
  department.   Upon   such   certification,   the  authority  shall  also
  immediately take steps to acquire and hold in the name of the  state  of
  New  York  any  property  interests which it may need to obtain for such
  permanent disposal facilities.
    3.  Upon  receipt  of  required  state  licenses,  permits,  or  other
  approvals  for  such  permanent disposal facilities and if access is not
  available on reasonable terms to disposal facilities outside of New York
  for low-level radioactive waste estimated to  be  generated  within  New
  York  state  during  the life of such permanent disposal facilities, the
  authority is authorized and directed to immediately  construct,  and  to
  operate  and  maintain, permanent disposal facilities in accordance with
  such  licenses,  permits,  and  other  approvals.   Permanent   disposal
  facilities  shall  be  completed  and  begin operation no later than the
  first day of January nineteen hundred ninety-three.