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Public Act 094-0849 |
HB1620 Enrolled |
LRB094 02868 RSP 32869 b |
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AN ACT concerning safety.
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Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, |
represented in the General Assembly:
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Section 5. The Environmental Protection Act is amended by |
adding Section 13.6 as follows: |
(415 ILCS 5/13.6 new) |
Sec. 13.6. Release of radionuclides at nuclear power |
plants. |
(a) The purpose of this Section is to require the detection |
and reporting of unpermitted releases of any radionuclides into |
groundwater, surface water, or soil at nuclear power plants, to |
the extent that federal law or regulation does not preempt such |
requirements. |
(b) No owner or operator of a nuclear power plant shall |
violate any rule adopted under this Section. |
(c) Within 24 hours after an unpermitted release of a |
radionuclide from a nuclear power plant, the owner or operator |
of the nuclear power plant where the release occurred shall |
report the release to the Agency and the Illinois Emergency |
Management Agency. For purposes of this Section, "unpermitted |
release of a radionuclide" means any spilling, leaking, |
emitting, discharging, escaping, leaching, or disposing of a |
radionuclide into groundwater, surface water, or soil that is |
not permitted under State or federal law or regulation. |
(d) The Agency and the Illinois Emergency Management Agency |
shall inspect each nuclear power plant for compliance with the |
requirements of this Section and rules adopted pursuant to this |
Section no less than once each calendar quarter. Nothing in |
this Section shall limit the Agency's authority to make |
inspections under Section 4 or any other provision of this Act. |
(e) No later than one year after the effective date of this |
amendatory Act of the 94th General Assembly, the Agency, in |