                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

CUSTOMERS TO BE NOTIFIED ABOUT NUCLEAR EMERGENCY EVACUATION PLANS (§
56-245.1:1)

At least once in every calendar year after July 1, 1980, each electric public
utility which owns, operates or maintains a nuclear generating facility in the
Commonwealth shall publish in a newspaper having general circulation within a
ten-mile radius of such facility, a statement or notice prepared or approved by
the Department of Emergency Management setting forth the evacuation and other
protective actions to be taken by persons or concerns located within such
ten-mile radius, in the event of a nuclear radiation emergency resulting from
the maintenance, operation or failure of such nuclear facility. After the
publication of the first statement or notice required hereby, subsequent
statements or notices shall be published at time intervals not exceeding twelve
months. The provisions hereof shall not be effective when federal laws or
regulations providing for yearly dissemination of similar information to members
of the public located within a ten-mile radius of any such nuclear generating
facility take effect.

HISTORY: 1980, c. 734.