Montana Code Annotated 2023

TITLE 10. MILITARY AFFAIRS AND DISASTER AND EMERGENCY SERVICES

CHAPTER 3. DISASTER AND EMERGENCY SERVICES

Part 13. Montana High-Level Radioactive Waste and Transuranic Waste Transportation Act

Radioactive Waste Transportation Monitoring, Emergency Response, And Training Account -- Purpose -- Disbursement

10-3-1304. Radioactive waste transportation monitoring, emergency response, and training account -- purpose -- disbursement. (1) There is an account in the state special revenue fund to be known as the radioactive waste transportation monitoring, emergency response, and training account administered by the disaster and emergency services division of the department of military affairs.

(2) The money deposited into this account by the department of transportation pursuant to 10-3-1307 may be used only for the following purposes:

(a) to reimburse the highway patrol for expenses incurred in monitoring or providing escorts for motor carriers transporting high-level radioactive waste or transuranic waste through the state;

(b) to provide funding for training local emergency response personnel in handling radioactive waste accidents, spills, and other related emergencies; and

(c) to reimburse local emergency response entities for costs incurred in the event that an accident, spill, or other related emergency occurs.

(3) Money in the account is statutorily appropriated, as provided in 17-7-502, to the department of military affairs for the purposes described in subsection (2). (Subsection (3) terminates September 30, 2025--sec. 4, Ch. 122, L. 2017.)

History: En. Sec. 4, Ch. 560, L. 2003; amd. Sec. 14, Ch. 2, L. 2009; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 122, L. 2017.