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| | | Resolve, Directing the State Tax Assessor To Adjust the |
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| | | State Valuation for the Town of Wiscasset |
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| | | Emergency preamble. Whereas, acts and resolves of the Legislature do | | not become effective until 90 days after adjournment unless | | enacted as emergencies; and |
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| | | Whereas, the Town of Wiscasset is the host community to the | | Maine Yankee Atomic Power Company, which owned and operated a | | nuclear electricity generating station that is currently being | | decommissioned and which currently owns and operates an | | independent storage facility for the interim storage of high- | | level nuclear waste and spent nuclear fuel generated during the | | operating lifetime of the Maine Yankee Nuclear Power Station; and |
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| | | Whereas, there are fewer than 25 decommissioned or | | decommissioning commercial nuclear power reactors nationwide and | | fewer than 25 independent spent fuel storage facilities | | nationwide, most of which are located on the site of operating | | nuclear power plants, causing the valuation of those facilities | | and the real estate on which they are located to pose | | unprecedented assessment challenges; and |
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| | | Whereas, as a result of the amicable settlement of a property | | tax dispute regarding the just value of the Maine Yankee Atomic | | Power Company's real and personal property, the Town of Wiscasset | | has experienced a loss of its municipal valuation related to the | | year 2003 municipal valuation relied upon by the State for | | purposes of establishing the 2005 state valuation, as |
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