Bill Text: IL HB4324 | 2019-2020 | 101st General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Nuclear Safety Law of 2004. Provides that 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 environmental radiochemical analysis (currently, does not include environmental radiochemical analysis). Provides that the Agency shall implement a comprehensive radiochemistry laboratory program. Requires the Director of the Agency to employ and direct such personnel, and shall provide for such laboratory and other facilities, as may be necessary to carry out the purposes of the Act and other specified Acts. Amends the Illinois Nuclear Safety Preparedness Act. Provides that the Illinois Nuclear Safety Preparedness Program shall consist of development and implementation of a 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. Effective immediately.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-06-23 - Rule 19(b) / Re-referred to Rules Committee [HB4324 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2019-HB4324-Introduced.html

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101ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2019 and 2020 HB4324 Introduced , by Rep. Kathleen Willis SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
20 ILCS 3310/40
20 ILCS 3310/40.5 new
420 ILCS 5/8 from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 4308
Amends the Nuclear Safety Law of 2004. Provides that 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 environmental radiochemical analysis (currently, does not include environmental radiochemical analysis). Provides that the Agency shall implement a comprehensive radiochemistry laboratory program. Requires the Director of the Agency to employ and direct such personnel, and shall provide for such laboratory and other facilities, as may be necessary to carry out the purposes of the Act and other specified Acts. Amends the Illinois Nuclear Safety Preparedness Act. Provides that the Illinois Nuclear Safety Preparedness Program shall consist of development and implementation of a 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. Effective immediately.
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A BILL FOR
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AN ACT concerning State government.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Nuclear Safety Law of 2004 is amended by
changing Section 40 and by adding Section 40.5 as follows:
(20 ILCS 3310/40)
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.
(Source: P.A. 93-1029, eff. 8-25-04.)
(20 ILCS 3310/40.5 new)
Sec. 40.5. Radiochemistry laboratory program. The Illinois

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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.
Section 10. The Illinois Nuclear Safety Preparedness Act is
amended by changing Section 8 as follows:
(420 ILCS 5/8) (from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 4308)
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:
(1) Development of a remote effluent monitoring system
capable of reliably detecting and quantifying accidental
radioactive releases from nuclear power plants to the
environment;
(2) Development of an environmental monitoring program
for nuclear facilities other than nuclear power plants;
(3) Development of procedures for radiological
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
response personnel in accordance with the Agency's
responsibilities under the program;
(5) Participation in the development of accident
scenarios and in the exercising of fixed facility nuclear
emergency response plans;
(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;
(7) Provision of specialized response equipment
necessary to accomplish this task;
(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;
(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
(10) Implementation of the program under the Illinois
Nuclear Facility Safety Act.
(11) Development and implementation of a
radiochemistry laboratory capable of preparing
environmental samples, performing analyses,

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quantification, and reporting for assessment and radiation
exposure control due to accidental radioactive releases
from nuclear power plants into the environment.
(b) The Agency may incorporate data collected by the
operator of a nuclear facility into the Agency's remote
monitoring system.
(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. The
owners of the nuclear power reactors shall, at their expense,
ensure that valid signals will be provided continuously 24
hours a day.
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
operation as well as throughout accidents and subsequent
recovery operations.
For nuclear reactors with operating licenses issued by the
Nuclear Regulatory Commission prior to the effective date of

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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.
(Source: P.A. 93-1029, eff. 8-25-04.)
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.