PERPETUAL CARE ACCOUNT AND ENVIRONMENTAL RADIATION AND PERPETUAL CARE ACCOUNT CAPS.
Tex. HEALTH & SAFETY Code § 401.307.
in effect(a) The fees imposed under Sections 401.052 (d) and 401.301 (d) are suspended when the sum of the balances of the perpetual care account and the environmental radiation and perpetual care account reaches $100 million. The fees are reinstated when the sum of the balances of the perpetual care account and the environmental radiation and perpetual care account falls to $50 million or less.
(b) The surcharge collected under Section 401.207 (g) is collected without regard to the balances of the perpetual care account and the environmental radiation and perpetual care account.
(c) Notwithstanding Subsection (a), a fee imposed by the commission under Section 401.301 (d) on the holder of a license authorizing the extraction, processing, or concentration of uranium or thorium from ore is suspended when the amount in the environmental radiation and perpetual care account attributable to those fees reaches $2 million. If the amount in that account attributable to those fees is reduced to $1.5 million or less, the fee is reinstated until the amount reaches $2 million.
(d) Notwithstanding Subsection (a), a fee imposed under Section 401.052 (d) is suspended from imposition against a party state compact waste generator when the amount in the perpetual care account attributable to those fees reaches $500,000. If the amount in that account attributable to those fees is reduced to $350,000 or less, the fee is reinstated until the amount reaches $500,000.
(e) This section does not relieve a generator from liability for a transportation accident involving low-level radioactive waste.
Added by Acts 2013, 83rd Leg., R.S., Ch. 1159 (S.B. 347 ), Sec. 12, eff. September 1, 2013.
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