Full Text of HB0592 102nd General Assembly
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| 1 | | AN ACT concerning State government.
| 2 | | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
| 3 | | represented in the General Assembly:
| 4 | | Section 5. The Nuclear Safety Law of 2004 is amended by | 5 | | changing Section 40 and by adding Section 40.5 as follows: | 6 | | (20 ILCS 3310/40)
| 7 | | Sec. 40. Regulation of nuclear safety. The Illinois | 8 | | Emergency Management Agency shall have primary responsibility | 9 | | for the coordination and oversight of all State governmental | 10 | | functions concerning the regulation of nuclear power, | 11 | | including low level waste management, environmental | 12 | | monitoring, environmental radiochemical analysis, and | 13 | | transportation of nuclear waste. Functions performed by the | 14 | | Department of State Police and the Department of | 15 | | Transportation in the area of nuclear safety, on the effective | 16 | | date of this Act, may continue to be performed by these | 17 | | agencies but under the direction of the Illinois Emergency | 18 | | Management Agency. All other governmental functions regulating | 19 | | nuclear safety shall be coordinated by Illinois Emergency | 20 | | Management Agency.
| 21 | | (Source: P.A. 93-1029, eff. 8-25-04.) | 22 | | (20 ILCS 3310/40.5 new) |
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| 1 | | Sec. 40.5. Radiochemistry laboratory program. The Illinois | 2 | | Emergency Management Agency shall implement a comprehensive | 3 | | radiochemistry laboratory program. The Director of the | 4 | | Illinois Emergency Management Agency, in accordance with the | 5 | | Personnel Code, shall employ and direct such personnel, and | 6 | | shall provide for such laboratory and other facilities, as may | 7 | | be necessary to carry out the purposes of this Act and the Acts | 8 | | referenced in Section 5. | 9 | | Section 10. The Illinois Nuclear Safety Preparedness Act | 10 | | is amended by changing Section 8 as follows:
| 11 | | (420 ILCS 5/8) (from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 4308)
| 12 | | Sec. 8. (a) The Illinois Nuclear Safety Preparedness | 13 | | Program shall
consist of an assessment of the potential | 14 | | nuclear accidents, their
radiological consequences, and the | 15 | | necessary protective actions required to
mitigate the effects | 16 | | of such accidents. It shall include, but not
necessarily be | 17 | | limited to:
| 18 | | (1) Development of a remote effluent monitoring system | 19 | | capable of
reliably detecting and quantifying accidental | 20 | | radioactive releases from
nuclear power plants to the | 21 | | environment;
| 22 | | (2) Development of an environmental monitoring program | 23 | | for nuclear
facilities other than nuclear power plants;
| 24 | | (3) Development of procedures for radiological |
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| 1 | | assessment and radiation
exposure control for areas | 2 | | surrounding each nuclear facility in Illinois;
| 3 | | (4) Radiological training of state and local emergency
| 4 | | response personnel in accordance with the Agency's | 5 | | responsibilities
under the program;
| 6 | | (5) Participation in the development of accident | 7 | | scenarios
and in the exercising of fixed facility nuclear | 8 | | emergency response plans;
| 9 | | (6) Development of mitigative emergency planning | 10 | | standards including,
but not limited to, standards | 11 | | pertaining to evacuations, re-entry into
evacuated areas, | 12 | | contaminated foodstuffs and contaminated water supplies;
| 13 | | (7) Provision of specialized response equipment | 14 | | necessary to accomplish
this task;
| 15 | | (8) Implementation of the Boiler and Pressure Vessel | 16 | | Safety program
at nuclear steam-generating facilities as | 17 | | mandated by
Section
2005-35 of the Department of Nuclear | 18 | | Safety Law, or its successor statute;
| 19 | | (9) Development and implementation of a plan for | 20 | | inspecting and
escorting all shipments of spent nuclear | 21 | | fuel, high-level
radioactive
waste, transuranic waste, and | 22 | | highway route controlled quantities of radioactive | 23 | | materials in Illinois; and
| 24 | | (10) Implementation of the program under the Illinois | 25 | | Nuclear Facility
Safety Act. | 26 | | (11) Development and implementation of a |
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| 1 | | radiochemistry laboratory capable of preparing | 2 | | environmental samples, performing analyses, | 3 | | quantification, and reporting for assessment and radiation | 4 | | exposure control due to accidental radioactive releases | 5 | | from nuclear power plants into the environment.
| 6 | | (b) The Agency may incorporate data collected by the | 7 | | operator of a
nuclear facility into the Agency's remote | 8 | | monitoring system.
| 9 | | (c) The owners of each nuclear power reactor in Illinois | 10 | | shall provide
the Agency all system status signals which | 11 | | initiate Emergency Action
Level Declarations, actuate accident | 12 | | mitigation and provide mitigation
verification as directed by | 13 | | the Agency. The Agency shall designate
by rule those system | 14 | | status signals that must be provided. Signals
providing | 15 | | indication of operating power level shall also be provided.
| 16 | | The owners of the nuclear power reactors shall, at their | 17 | | expense, ensure
that valid signals will be provided | 18 | | continuously 24 hours a day.
| 19 | | All such signals shall be provided in a manner and at a | 20 | | frequency
specified by the Agency for incorporation into and | 21 | | augmentation of the
remote effluent monitoring system | 22 | | specified in subsection (a) (1) of this
Section. Provision | 23 | | shall be made for assuring that such system status and
power | 24 | | level signals shall be available to the Agency
during reactor
| 25 | | operation as well as throughout accidents and subsequent
| 26 | | recovery operations.
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| 1 | | For nuclear reactors with operating licenses issued by the | 2 | | Nuclear
Regulatory Commission prior to the effective date of | 3 | | this amendatory Act,
such system status and power level | 4 | | signals shall be provided to the
Department of Nuclear Safety | 5 | | (of which the Agency is the successor) by March 1, 1985. For | 6 | | reactors without such a license on the
effective date of this | 7 | | amendatory Act, such signals shall be provided to
the | 8 | | Department prior to commencing initial fuel load for such | 9 | | reactor.
Nuclear reactors receiving their operating license | 10 | | after the effective date
of this amendatory Act, but before | 11 | | July 1, 1985, shall provide such system
status and power level | 12 | | signals to the Department of Nuclear Safety (of which the | 13 | | Agency is the successor) by September 1, 1985.
| 14 | | (Source: P.A. 93-1029, eff. 8-25-04.)
| 15 | | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | 16 | | becoming law.
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