35-11-1501(a)(iv).

35-11-1501(a)(iv).

(e) The provisions of the Industrial Development Information and Siting Act, W.S. 35-12-101 through 35-12-119, shall apply only to the extent that those provisions do not interfere with, contradict or duplicate any requirements of the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

(f) Not less than thirty (30) days before construction of an advanced nuclear reactor commences and if no report is required to be submitted under W.S. 35-11-1506(e)(vi), the operator of the advanced nuclear reactor shall submit a report to the department that includes:

(i) The number of jobs that will be created in the planning, licensing, site analysis, preparation, purchasing, construction, transportation, operation and decommissioning of the advanced nuclear reactor and what number of those jobs would be filled by Wyoming residents;

(ii) Local and state taxes that are estimated to be generated by all aspects of the construction, operation and decommissioning of the advanced nuclear reactor;

(iii) All benefits and impacts that will accrue to the state and local community where the advanced nuclear reactor will be located, including benefits from job training, education, communications systems, monitoring and security systems.

(g) The operator of each advanced nuclear reactor shall send to the department copies of all publicly available reports, notifications and violations sent to or from the United States nuclear regulatory commission or the operator of the advanced nuclear reactor as soon as practicable but not later than five (5) days after the operator sends or receives the report. The operator shall also transmit all information required under this subsection to emergency management departments of the local governments where the facility is located and shall make the information available on a public website.

CHAPTER 12 - INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT AND SITING

35-12-101. Short title.

This chapter is the "Industrial Development Information and Siting Act".

35-12-102. Definitions.

(a) As used in this chapter:

(i) "Advisory member" means an advisory member of the council provided by W.S. 35-12-104(f);

(ii) "Applicant" means any person who applies for a permit pursuant to this chapter;

(iii) "Commence to construct" means:

(A) Any clearing of land, excavation, construction or other action that would affect the environment of the site of any facility, but does not include changes needed for temporary use of sites for less than ninety (90) days, changes required to conduct required studies and tests under this chapter, or any other state or federal act or regulation, or access roads and services associated with utilities, or routes for nonutility purposes or for uses in securing geological data but not limited to necessary borings or drillings to ascertain foundation conditions;

(B) The nuclear fracturing of underground formation, if any such activity is related to the possible future development of a facility subject to this chapter, but does not include the gathering of geological data by boring of test holes or other underground exploration, investigation or experimentation.

(iv) "Council" means the industrial siting council;

(v) "Director" means the director of the department of environmental quality;

(vi) "Impacted area" means an area of Wyoming in which sudden or prolonged population growth may occur or may cause environmental, social or economic stresses of such nature that the total local, state and federal resources available are not sufficient to alleviate them properly and effectively as determined by the council;

(vii) "Industrial facility" or "facility" means any industrial facility with an estimated construction cost of at least ninety-six million nine hundred thousand dollars ($96,900,000.00) as of May 30, 1987. Exempt activities shall not be included in the estimated construction cost of an industrial facility. The council shall adjust this amount, up or down, each year using recognized construction cost indices as the council determines to be relevant to the actual change in construction cost applicable to the general type of construction covered under this chapter. "Facility" also includes, regardless of construction cost:

(A) Any commercial waste incineration or disposal facility capable of receiving greater than five hundred (500) short tons per day of household refuse or mixed household and industrial refuse, excluding lands and facilities subject to W.S. 35-11-402(a)(xiii);

(B) Any commercial facility which incinerates or disposes of any regulated quantity of hazardous wastes which are subject to hazardous waste shipping manifest requirements under subtitle C of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (42 U.S.C. §§ 6921 through 6939e);

(C) Any commercial radioactive waste management facility defined by W.S. 35-11-103(d)(v);

(D) Until July 1, 1999, any facility constructed solely for the disposal of overburden, development waste rock or refuse from mining as defined under W.S. 35-11-103, except for the following facilities:

(I) Facilities permitted or licensed under article 4 of the Wyoming Environmental Quality Act;

(II) Facilities specifically exempt from permitting requirements under article 4 of the Wyoming Environmental Quality Act;

(III) Facilities specifically identified under W.S. 35-11-103(d)(v)(A).  (E) Any commercial facility generating electricity from wind and associated collector systems that:

(I) Consists of twenty (20) or more wind turbines in all planned phases of the installation; or

(II) Expand an existing installation not previously defined as a facility to include a total number of turbines greater than or equal to the thresholds in subdivision (a)(vii)(E)(I) of this section.

(F) Any facility over which a board of county commissioners has authority to issue the permit required by W.S.