459.008 - Appointment of member of Board by Governor; designation of alternate member. - Nevada Statutes

459.008  Appointment of member of Board by Governor; designation of alternate member.

      1.  The Governor shall appoint the member of the Rocky Mountain Low-Level Radioactive Waste Board to represent this State. The member serves at the pleasure of the Governor.

      2.  The member representing this State on the Rocky Mountain Low-Level Radioactive Waste Board may, in the member’s absence, be represented on the Board by an alternate designated by the member. Such an alternate may discharge the member’s duties and perform the member’s functions to the extent and during the time designated by the member, pursuant to subsection B of article 6 of the Compact.

      (Added to NRS by 1983, 1259)

      NRS 459.0083  State surcharge: Imposition; collection; distribution; deposit for credit to Fund for Care of Sites for Disposal of Radioactive Waste.  There is hereby imposed a state surcharge of $2 per cubic foot of radioactive waste received at Nevada’s regional facility in Beatty. This state surcharge must be collected at the same time and in the manner provided for the compact surcharge collected pursuant to Article 5 of the Rocky Mountain Low-level Radioactive Waste Compact. Any money collected pursuant to this section which is not otherwise distributed by specific legislative appropriation must be deposited with the State Treasurer for credit to the Fund for the Care of Sites for the Disposal of Radioactive Waste created pursuant to NRS 459.231.

      (Added to NRS by 1987, 1748; A 1997, 125)