Section 29-0509 - Aid to local governmentsNo later than the first day of April, nineteen hundred eighty-seven, the department shall submit to the legislature and the governor a report recommending appropriate forms of state aid to local governmental units within the boundaries of which any low-level radioactive waste management facilities may be located. Such report shall be developed by the department and shall:
1. describe the nature of the probable impacts upon local governmental units, including both impacts normally expected from the presence, construction, operation, maintenance, closure, and post-closure care of such low-level radioactive waste management facilities and impacts which might result from an emergency or other abnormal or unusual event associated with the operation, maintenance, closure, or post-closure care of such low-level radioactive waste facilities;2. describe the possible forms or kinds of aid or assistance which might be appropriate to mitigate or provide off-setting benefits with respect to each of the kinds of probable impacts on local governmental units identified pursuant to this section; and3. set forth the department's specific recommendations to the legislature and the governor for the forms or kinds of state assistance to local governmental units to mitigate or provide off-setting benefits with respect to such impacts, together with the reasons for the department's specific recommendations.N.Y. Envtl. Conserv. Law § 29-0509