Full Text of HB4647 93rd General Assembly
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: |
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420 ILCS 5/3 |
from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 4303 |
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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.
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A BILL FOR
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| AN ACT concerning nuclear safety.
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| Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| represented in the General Assembly:
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| Section 5. The Illinois Nuclear Safety Preparedness Act is | 5 |
| amended by changing Section 3 as follows:
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| (420 ILCS 5/3) (from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 4303)
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| Sec. 3. Definitions. Unless the context otherwise clearly | 8 |
| requires, as used
in
this Act:
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| (1) " Agency
Department " means the Illinois Emergency | 10 |
| Management Agency
Department of Nuclear Safety
of the State of | 11 |
| Illinois .
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| (2) "Director" means the Director of the Illinois Emergency | 13 |
| Management Agency
Department of Nuclear Safety .
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| (3) "Person" means any individual, corporation, | 15 |
| partnership, firm,
association, trust, estate, public or | 16 |
| private institution, group,
agency, political subdivision of | 17 |
| this State, any other state or
political subdivision or agency | 18 |
| thereof, and any legal successor,
representative, agent, or | 19 |
| agency of the foregoing.
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| (4) "NRC" means the United States Nuclear Regulatory | 21 |
| Commission or
any agency which succeeds to its functions in the | 22 |
| licensing of nuclear
power reactors or facilities for storing | 23 |
| spent nuclear fuel.
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| (5) "High-level radioactive waste" means (1) the highly | 25 |
| radioactive
material resulting from the reprocessing of spent | 26 |
| nuclear fuel including
liquid waste produced directly in | 27 |
| reprocessing and any solid material
derived from such liquid | 28 |
| waste that contains fission products in sufficient
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| concentrations; and (2) the highly radioactive material that | 30 |
| the NRC has
determined to be high-level radioactive waste | 31 |
| requiring permanent isolation.
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| (6) "Nuclear facilities" means nuclear power plants, |
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| facilities housing
nuclear test and research reactors, | 2 |
| facilities for the chemical conversion
of uranium, and | 3 |
| facilities for the storage of spent nuclear fuel or
high-level | 4 |
| radioactive waste and facilities that possess radioactive | 5 |
| materials in quantities specified by the Agency .
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| (7) "Spent nuclear fuel" means fuel that has been withdrawn | 7 |
| from a
nuclear reactor following irradiation, the constituent | 8 |
| elements of which
have not been separated by reprocessing.
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| (8) "Transuranic waste" means material contaminated with | 10 |
| elements that
have an atomic number greater than 92, including | 11 |
| neptunium, plutonium,
americium, and curium, excluding | 12 |
| radioactive wastes shipped to a licensed
low-level radioactive | 13 |
| waste disposal facility.
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| (Source: P.A. 90-601, eff. 6-26-98.)
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| Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | 16 |
| becoming law.
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