BILL NUMBER: SJR 23	ENROLLED
	BILL TEXT

	ADOPTED IN SENATE  APRIL 28, 2016
	ADOPTED IN ASSEMBLY  JUNE 23, 2016

INTRODUCED BY   Senator Bates
   (Principal coauthor: Assembly Member Chávez)

                        MARCH 28, 2016

   Relative to the Interim Consolidated Storage Act of 2016.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SJR 23, Bates. Interim Consolidated Storage Act of 2016: San
Onofre Nuclear Generating Station.
   This measure would urge the passage of the Interim Consolidated
Storage Act of 2016 and urge the United States Department of Energy
to implement the prompt and safe relocation of spent nuclear fuel
from the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station to a licensed and
regulated interim consolidated storage facility.



   WHEREAS, Millions of ratepayer and taxpayer dollars are spent
monitoring and overseeing spent nuclear fuel each year and millions
of dollars more are programmed to be spent on settlement payments
related to nuclear waste disposition; and
   WHEREAS, Much of the spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive
waste currently stored is at sites that are vulnerable to natural
disasters and located near large metropolitan centers; and
   WHEREAS, The United States Department of Energy concluded in 2013
that a geologic repository for the permanent disposal of spent
nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste will not be available
until 2048, at the earliest; and
   WHEREAS, The President's Blue Ribbon Commission on America's
Nuclear Future recommended that efforts be made to develop a
permanent disposal site for spent nuclear fuel and high-level
radioactive waste; and
   WHEREAS, The spent nuclear fuel at the San Onofre Nuclear
Generating Station, a decommissioning site, should be promptly and
safely moved to a consolidated storage site, as recommended by the
President's Blue Ribbon Commission on America's Nuclear Future, and
as would be advanced by H.R. 4745, the Interim Consolidated Storage
Act of 2016, which would give priority for storage to high-level
nuclear waste and spent nuclear fuel located on a site without an
operating nuclear reactor; now, therefore, be it
   Resolved by the Senate and the Assembly of the State of
California, jointly, That the Legislature of the State of California
respectfully urges the passage of H.R. 4745 and supports the
development and passage of complementary legislation; and be it
further
   Resolved, That the Legislature of the State of California
respectfully urges the United States Department of Energy to
implement the prompt and safe relocation of spent nuclear fuel from
the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station to a licensed and regulated
interim consolidated storage facility; and be it further
   Resolved, That the Secretary of the Senate transmit copies of this
resolution to the President of the United States, to the Speaker of
the House of Representatives, to the Majority Leader of the Senate,
to each Senator and Representative from California in the Congress of
the United States, and to the Secretary of Energy.