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Public Act 102-0133
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AN ACT concerning State government.
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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 Nuclear Safety Law of 2004 is amended by |
changing Section 40 and by adding Section 40.5 as follows:
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(20 ILCS 3310/40)
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Sec. 40. Regulation of nuclear safety. The Illinois |
Emergency Management Agency shall have primary responsibility |
for the coordination and oversight of all State governmental |
functions concerning the regulation of nuclear power, |
including low level waste management, environmental |
monitoring, environmental radiochemical analysis, and |
transportation of nuclear waste. Functions performed by the |
Department of State Police and the Department of |
Transportation in the area of nuclear safety, on the effective |
date of this Act, may continue to be performed by these |
agencies but under the direction of the Illinois Emergency |
Management Agency. All other governmental functions regulating |
nuclear safety shall be coordinated by Illinois Emergency |
Management Agency.
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(Source: P.A. 93-1029, eff. 8-25-04.)
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(20 ILCS 3310/40.5 new) |
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Sec. 40.5. Radiochemistry laboratory program. The Illinois |
Emergency Management Agency shall implement a comprehensive |
radiochemistry laboratory program. The Director of the |
Illinois Emergency Management Agency, in accordance with the |
Personnel Code, shall employ and direct such personnel, and |
shall provide for such laboratory and other facilities, as may |
be necessary to carry out the purposes of this Act and the Acts |
referenced in Section 5.
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Section 10. The Illinois Nuclear Safety Preparedness Act |
is amended by changing Section 8 as follows:
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(420 ILCS 5/8) (from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 4308)
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Sec. 8. (a) The Illinois Nuclear Safety Preparedness |
Program shall
consist of an assessment of the potential |
nuclear accidents, their
radiological consequences, and the |
necessary protective actions required to
mitigate the effects |
of such accidents. It shall include, but not
necessarily be |
limited to:
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(1) Development of a remote effluent monitoring system |
capable of
reliably detecting and quantifying accidental |
radioactive releases from
nuclear power plants to the |
environment;
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(2) Development of an environmental monitoring program |
for nuclear
facilities other than nuclear power plants;
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(3) Development of procedures for radiological |
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assessment and radiation
exposure control for areas |
surrounding each nuclear facility in Illinois;
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(4) Radiological training of state and local emergency
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response personnel in accordance with the Agency's |
responsibilities
under the program;
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(5) Participation in the development of accident |
scenarios
and in the exercising of fixed facility nuclear |
emergency response plans;
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(6) Development of mitigative emergency planning |
standards including,
but not limited to, standards |
pertaining to evacuations, re-entry into
evacuated areas, |
contaminated foodstuffs and contaminated water supplies;
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(7) Provision of specialized response equipment |
necessary to accomplish
this task;
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(8) Implementation of the Boiler and Pressure Vessel |
Safety program
at nuclear steam-generating facilities as |
mandated by
Section
2005-35 of the Department of Nuclear |
Safety Law, or its successor statute;
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(9) Development and implementation of a plan for |
inspecting and
escorting all shipments of spent nuclear |
fuel, high-level
radioactive
waste, transuranic waste, and |
highway route controlled quantities of radioactive |
materials in Illinois; and
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(10) Implementation of the program under the Illinois |
Nuclear Facility
Safety Act. |
(11) Development and implementation of a |
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radiochemistry laboratory capable of preparing |
environmental samples, performing analyses, |
quantification, and reporting for assessment and radiation |
exposure control due to accidental radioactive releases |
from nuclear power plants into the environment.
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(b) The Agency may incorporate data collected by the |
operator of a
nuclear facility into the Agency's remote |
monitoring system.
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(c) The owners of each nuclear power reactor in Illinois |
shall provide
the Agency all system status signals which |
initiate Emergency Action
Level Declarations, actuate accident |
mitigation and provide mitigation
verification as directed by |
the Agency. The Agency shall designate
by rule those system |
status signals that must be provided. Signals
providing |
indication of operating power level shall also be provided.
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The owners of the nuclear power reactors shall, at their |
expense, ensure
that valid signals will be provided |
continuously 24 hours a day.
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All such signals shall be provided in a manner and at a |
frequency
specified by the Agency for incorporation into and |
augmentation of the
remote effluent monitoring system |
specified in subsection (a) (1) of this
Section. Provision |
shall be made for assuring that such system status and
power |
level signals shall be available to the Agency
during reactor
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operation as well as throughout accidents and subsequent
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recovery operations.
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For nuclear reactors with operating licenses issued by the |
Nuclear
Regulatory Commission prior to the effective date of |
this amendatory Act,
such system status and power level |
signals shall be provided to the
Department of Nuclear Safety |
(of which the Agency is the successor) by March 1, 1985. For |
reactors without such a license on the
effective date of this |
amendatory Act, such signals shall be provided to
the |
Department prior to commencing initial fuel load for such |
reactor.
Nuclear reactors receiving their operating license |
after the effective date
of this amendatory Act, but before |
July 1, 1985, shall provide such system
status and power level |
signals to the Department of Nuclear Safety (of which the |
Agency is the successor) by September 1, 1985.
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(Source: P.A. 93-1029, eff. 8-25-04.)
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Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon |
becoming law.
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