HB4647 93RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY

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93RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2003 and 2004
HB4647

Introduced 02/04/04, by Thomas Holbrook

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:

420 ILCS 5/3

from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 4303

Amends the Illinois Nuclear Safety Preparedness Act. In a Section concerning definitions, changes references of the "Department of Nuclear Safety" to the "Illinois Emergency Management Agency". Effective immediately.

A BILL FOR

AN ACT concerning nuclear safety.

Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly:

Section 5. The Illinois Nuclear Safety Preparedness Act is amended by changing Section 3 as follows:

(420 ILCS 5/3) (from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 4303)

Sec. 3. Definitions. Unless the context otherwise clearly requires, as used in this Act:

(1) "Agency Department" means the Illinois Emergency Management Agency Department of Nuclear Safety of the State of Illinois.

(2) "Director" means the Director of the Illinois Emergency Management Agency Department of Nuclear Safety.

(3) "Person" means any individual, corporation, partnership, firm, association, trust, estate, public or private institution, group, agency, political subdivision of this State, any other state or political subdivision or agency thereof, and any legal successor, representative, agent, or agency of the foregoing.

(4) "NRC" means the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission or any agency which succeeds to its functions in the licensing of nuclear power reactors or facilities for storing spent nuclear fuel.

(5) "High-level radioactive waste" means (1) the highly radioactive material resulting from the reprocessing of spent nuclear fuel including liquid waste produced directly in reprocessing and any solid material derived from such liquid waste that contains fission products in sufficient concentrations; and (2) the highly radioactive material that the NRC has determined to be high-level radioactive waste requiring permanent isolation.

(6) "Nuclear facilities" means nuclear power plants, facilities housing nuclear test and research reactors, facilities for the chemical conversion of uranium, and facilities for the storage of spent nuclear fuel or high-level radioactive waste and facilities that possess radioactive materials in quantities specified by the Agency.

(7) "Spent nuclear fuel" means fuel that has been withdrawn from a nuclear reactor following irradiation, the constituent elements of which have not been separated by reprocessing.

(8) "Transuranic waste" means material contaminated with elements that have an atomic number greater than 92, including neptunium, plutonium, americium, and curium, excluding radioactive wastes shipped to a licensed low-level radioactive waste disposal facility.

(Source: P.A. 90-601, eff. 6-26-98.)

Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon becoming law.