North Carolina G.S. 166A-29: fixed nuclear facility emergency-planning fee

North Carolina charges an annual emergency-planning fee, and a second radiation-protection fee, for each fixed nuclear facility that produces electricity and is in the state or has a plume emergency-planning zone partly in the state. The opened text sets minimums and leaves the payment schedule to the Department of Public Safety.

Category: Laws, rules and executive directives
Status: In effect
Instrument: statute · N.C. Gen. Stat. § 166A-29
Issued by: North Carolina General Assembly
Jurisdiction: North Carolina
Affects: State programme administration
In effect from: 1 Jul 2020 · actual · day
Expiry or completion: None recorded
Operative text: North Carolina General Statutes § 166A-29 (Official current section opened 4 October 2026)
Last checked · next review: 2026-10-04 · 2027-04-15

Legal and geographic scope

The official current section requires a person licensed to construct or operating a fixed nuclear facility for the production of electricity to pay two annual fees when the facility is in North Carolina or has a plume exposure pathway emergency planning zone partly in the state. One fee is at least $30,000 to the Department of Public Safety for Federal Emergency Management Agency emergency-response planning. The other is at least $36,000, not above the cost of the service, to that department for the Radiation Protection Section. The opened current text says each fee is paid on a schedule set by the Department of Public Safety. The minimum of the first fee may be increased by agreement with the licensees or operators. Fees do not revert at the end of a fiscal year, and amounts carried forward are considered in setting the next subsection (a) fee. The section is not limited to small modular reactors. It is not a construction certificate and not a Nuclear Regulatory Commission license.

Not approved or still pending

No Department of Public Safety fee schedule or assessment order was opened. No project is linked. The fee does not authorize construction.

Dated lifecycle

1 Jul 2020 · actual · day · Took effect — Session Law 2020-83 was approved at 5:37 p.m. on 1 July 2020. Section 11.1(b) says that section becomes effective 1 July 2020 and applies to fees assessed on or after that date. The current compilation's history ends with that section. (North Carolina Session Law 2020-83)

Projects or designs named by the source

None. Location in this jurisdiction does not make a project eligible for, or approved under, this measure.

Sources

North Carolina General Statutes § 166A-29 (government_primary, accessed 2026-10-04)
North Carolina Session Law 2020-83 (government_primary, accessed 2026-10-04)