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| 1 | | AN ACT concerning safety.
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| 2 | | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, |
| 3 | | represented in the General Assembly:
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| 4 | | Section 5. The Radiation Protection Act of 1990 is amended |
| 5 | | by changing Section 34 and by adding Section 50 as follows:
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| 6 | | (420 ILCS 40/34) (from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 210-34) |
| 7 | | (Section scheduled to be repealed on January 1, 2027) |
| 8 | | Sec. 34. Intrastate shippers of irradiated nuclear reactor |
| 9 | | fuel. |
| 10 | | (a) All intrastate and interstate shippers carriers of |
| 11 | | irradiated nuclear reactor fuel in the State of Illinois are |
| 12 | | hereby required to notify the Agency no less than 7 days 24 |
| 13 | | hours prior to any transportation of irradiated nuclear |
| 14 | | reactor fuel within this State of the proposed route, the |
| 15 | | place and time of entry into the State, and the amount and the |
| 16 | | source of the fuel. The Agency shall immediately notify the |
| 17 | | Illinois State Police, which shall notify the sheriff of those |
| 18 | | counties along the route of such shipment. |
| 19 | | (b) As used in this Section: For the purpose of this |
| 20 | | subsection, |
| 21 | | a "carrier" is any entity charged with transportation of |
| 22 | | such irradiated reactor fuel from the nuclear steam-generating |
| 23 | | facility to a storage facility. |
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| 1 | | "Irradiated For the purpose of this subsection, |
| 2 | | "irradiated reactor fuel" means fuel that has been withdrawn |
| 3 | | from a nuclear reactor following irradiation, the constituent |
| 4 | | elements of which have not been separated by reprocessing is |
| 5 | | any nuclear fuel assembly containing fissile-bearing material |
| 6 | | that has been irradiated in and removed from a nuclear reactor |
| 7 | | facility. |
| 8 | | "Shipper" means the entity who offers the irradiated |
| 9 | | reactor fuel for transportation into commerce or the agent of |
| 10 | | an entity who offers the irradiated reactor fuel for |
| 11 | | transportation into commerce. |
| 12 | | (Source: P.A. 102-538, eff. 8-20-21.)
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| 13 | | (420 ILCS 40/50 new) |
| 14 | | Sec. 50. Collection, storage, and disposal of radiation |
| 15 | | sources; fees. The Agency may collect, store, and dispose of |
| 16 | | uncontrolled sources of radiation that have entered the public |
| 17 | | domain and that the Agency considers to be a threat to public |
| 18 | | health and safety or the environment. The Agency may assess |
| 19 | | actual costs, as appropriate, for the collection, storage, and |
| 20 | | disposal of uncontrolled sources of radiation that have |
| 21 | | entered the public domain and that the Agency considers to be a |
| 22 | | threat to public health and safety or the environment against |
| 23 | | any person that owns, owned, possesses, or is responsible for |
| 24 | | the radioactive material entering the public domain. |