Current Status Introducing Body:Senate Bill Number:489 Primary Sponsor:Cork Committee Number:11 Type of Legislation:GB Subject:Barnwell disposal facility Residing Body:Senate Current Committee:Judiciary Companion Bill Number:3311 Computer Document Number:436/11015AC.93 Introduced Date:19930303 Last History Body:Senate Last History Date:19930303 Last History Type:Introduced, read first time, referred to Committee Scope of Legislation:Statewide All Sponsors:Cork Leventis McConnell Passailaigue Courson Wilson Land Type of Legislation:General Bill
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489 Senate 19930303 Introduced, read first time, 11
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TO AMEND SECTION 48-48-80, AS AMENDED, CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, RELATING TO THE OPERATION AND ACCEPTANCE OF LOW-LEVEL RADIOACTIVE WASTE AT THE BARNWELL DISPOSAL FACILITY, SO AS TO REQUIRE THAT THE ACCEPTANCE OF WASTE FROM OUTSIDE THE SOUTHEAST REGION AFTER JULY 1, 1994, MUST BE APPROVED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY BY JOINT RESOLUTION.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina:
SECTION 1. Section 48-48-80(G) of the 1976 Code, as last amended by Part II, Section 70 D. of Act 501 of 1992, is further amended to read:
"(G) Beginning July 1, 1994, in addition to the requirement set forth in Section 48-47-70(9) for an affirmative vote of both representatives from the State of South Carolina to the Southeast Low-Level Radioactive Waste Management Compact Commission to accept the importation of waste from outside the southeast region, the General Assembly, by a concurrent joint resolution, must authorize the facility at Barnwell to accept the importation of waste generated outside the region before such waste may be disposed at the Barnwell facility."
SECTION 2. This act takes effect upon approval by the Governor.