Splitting Stigmas

In the most recent special session of the West Virginia Legislature, Governor Jim Justice placed on the agenda a bill to make West Virginia an Agreement State with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (“NRC”). This legislation (House Bill 208) was modeled after draft legislation from the NRC and which the West Virginia Legislature edited and received a tentative agreement from the NRC that if HB 208 was passed, the NRC would accept it as properly conforming to the State Agreement program requirements.

HB 208 was passed by both houses of the Legislature with only modest opposition ...