A. The nuclear emergency management fund is established consisting of monies appropriated by the legislature under Section 26-306.01. The division shall use the fund for administering and enforcing the state plan for off-site response to an emergency caused by an accident at a commercial nuclear generating station.

Terms Used In Arizona Laws 26-306.02

  • Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
  • Commercial nuclear generating station: means an electric power generating facility which is owned by a public service corporation, a municipal corporation or a consortium of public service corporations or municipal corporations and which produces electricity by means of a nuclear reactor. See Arizona Laws 26-301
  • Division: means the division of emergency management within the department of emergency and military affairs. See Arizona Laws 26-301
  • Emergency management: means the preparedness, response, recovery and mitigation activities necessary to respond to and recover from disasters, emergencies or contingencies. See Arizona Laws 26-301
  • Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
  • Response: means activities that are designed to provide emergency assistance, limit the primary effects, reduce the probability of secondary damage and speed recovery operations. See Arizona Laws 26-301

B. Monies deposited in the fund are exempt from section 35-190 relating to lapsing of appropriations, except that any monies remaining unexpended and unencumbered at the end of each fiscal year from the distributions made from the fund to the division of emergency management of the department of emergency and military affairs and the Arizona department of agriculture and for disbursements to departments and agencies of Maricopa county revert to the nuclear emergency management fund and shall be used to reduce the assessment and appropriation to the fund for the following fiscal years. The reduction in the appropriation for each applicable agency shall be equal to the amount of monies reverted to the fund by each agency.

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