Emergency response fee

(a) In addition to any other fees and taxes provided by law, an emergency response fee of four hundred fifty dollars ($450.00) shall apply to each package of radioactive materials transported through this state. The department of transportation shall collect this fee when it issues a permit under W.S. 31-18- 407(a). All emergency response fees collected by the department of transportation pursuant to this subsection and W.S. 31-18- 407(a) shall be deposited in a separate account to be used for the payment of costs associated with training for and conducting emergency response procedures related to the transportation of radioactive materials.

(b) As used in this section:

(i) "Radioactive materials" means:

(A) Highway route controlled quantities of radioactive materials as defined in 49 C.F.R. 173.403(l) as amended as of January 1, 1989; and

(B) Nuclear waste being transported to the waste isolation pilot plant in New Mexico, to any facility established pursuant to section 135 of the federal "Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982" as amended, 42 U.S.C. 10101 et seq., to any repository licensed for the permanent deep geological disposal of high- level radioactive waste and spent nuclear fuel, or to any monitored retrievable storage facility established pursuant to section 141 of the federal "Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982" as amended.

(ii) "Package" means a container plus its contents that are assembled to assure compliance with the minimum federal packaging requirements for radioactive materials;

(iii) "Shipper" means the party or carrier responsible for shipments of radioactive materials under this section.

CHAPTER 15 - TELECOMMUNICATIONS

ARTICLE 1 - GENERAL PROVISIONS