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Unpopular in South Carolina: fee increases for regulating “low level” radioactive waste

SC legislators balk at low-level nuclear material fee increase tied to tougher fed security,  latimes.com,  JIM DAVENPORT Associated Press January 25, 2011, COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Some South Carolina lawmakers don’t like proposed fee increases for regulating low-level nuclear material tied to tougher federal security requirements.
South Carolina’s Department of Health and Environmental is in charge of overseeing a wide range of nuclear material, including from physician offices and hospitals as well as road testing equipment and laundries cleaning contaminated linens and gowns.

The agency said higher annual fees were needed for businesses, hospitals and researchers to adequately run the program or the state would run the risk of having it taken over by the federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Were that to happen, the state’s fees, now half of what the NRC charges, would rise to the full NRC rate. DHEC said licensees support the higher fees………

SC legislators balk at low-level nuclear material fee increase tied to tougher fed security – latimes.com

January 26, 2011 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | business and costs, USA