Nebraska section 71-3505: nuclear-plant emergency-response and surveillance fee

Nebraska's current section 71-3505 sets a statutory cap of eighty-two thousand dollars per nuclear power plant per year for offsite emergency response or environmental surveillance, or one hundred ten thousand dollars for the remaining plant if only one is still subject. The opened text names Cooper Nuclear Station and Fort Calhoun Station as the places the fee is used. It prints no effective date and no collected balance. The fee is not a construction permit.

Category: Laws, rules and executive directives
Status: In effect
Instrument: statute · Neb. Rev. Stat. § 71-3505(1)(g) and (2)
Issued by: Nebraska Legislature
Jurisdiction: Nebraska
Affects: State programme administration
Effective date: Not recorded
Expiry or completion: None recorded
Operative text: Nebraska Revised Statute section 71-3505 (Compilation page opened 4 October 2026)
Last checked · next review: 2026-10-05 · 2027-04-15

Legal and geographic scope

Current compilation of section 71-3505. Subsection (1)(g) directs collection of a fee for emergency response or environmental surveillance, or both, offsite from each nuclear power plant, equal to the cost of that work and any associated report. The fee shall not exceed the lesser of actual costs or eighty-two thousand dollars per plant per year. Beginning 1 January 2018, an inflation adjustment based on the Consumer Price Index may be recommended and shall not exceed five percent per year. The fee is credited to the Health and Human Services Cash Fund and used solely for those costs at Cooper Nuclear Station and Fort Calhoun Station. A plant that has implemented a permanent defueled emergency plan and no longer requires protective actions beyond the site boundary is not subject to the fee. Subsection (2) says that if one plant is no longer subject, the remaining plant's fee shall not exceed the lesser of actual costs or one hundred ten thousand dollars per year. The opened page prints no effective date for the section.

Not approved or still pending

The compilation prints no effective date for the section. The source line ends with Laws 2017, LB430, section 1, and that act was not opened, so 2017 is the document year of the latest cited source line only. The eighty-two-thousand-dollar and one-hundred-ten-thousand-dollar figures are statutory caps in the opened text. No inflation-adjusted amount, collected balance, or award is stored. The text does not say which plant, if either, is still subject to the fee. No project is linked. This is a state surveillance fee, not an NRC review fee and not permission to construct or operate.

Dated lifecycle

1 Jan 2018 · actual · day · Provision took effect — The subsection says the inflation-adjustment recommendation commences on this date. It is not the section's enactment date, and no adjusted dollar amount is stored. (Nebraska Revised Statute section 71-3505)

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

Nebraska Revised Statute section 71-3505 (government_primary, accessed 2026-10-04)