164.2804 Nuclear -ready community designation -- Criteria -- Application process -- Award by the authority. (1) The Kentucky Nuclear Energy Development Authority, with the approval of its advisory board, shall develop and adopt criteria for awarding a nuclear -ready community designation to demonstrate a community's readiness to welcome nuclear energy -related development. The criteria to attain the designation shall include but not be limited to: (a) The holding of local public educational meetings to e ducate the community on advanced nuclear energy technologies, the nuclear ecosystem, and the role that nuclear energy -related development could play in the community; (b) The availability of sites within the community that have been recognized by the Cabin et for Economic Development as being suitable for nuclear energy - related projects; and (c) The adoption of resolutions from the county and all cities in the county or a successful county ballot initiative declaring the community's readiness for nuclear ene rgy-related projects to be developed and sited there. (2) Communities may voluntarily apply to the Kentucky Nuclear Energy Development Authority for a nuclear -ready unity's readiness for nuclear ene rgy-related projects to be developed and sited there. (2) Communities may voluntarily apply to the Kentucky Nuclear Energy Development Authority for a nuclear -ready community designation in the form and manner as the authority may require, and the authorit y shall evaluate the application and award the designation based on the criteria established under subsection (1) of this section. Effective: July 15, 2024 History: Created 2024 Ky. Acts ch. 169, sec. 2, effective July 15, 2024.
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