93RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2003 and 2004
HB4647


 
Introduced 02/04/04, by Thomas Holbrook
 
SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 		














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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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    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 
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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 
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requires, as used
in
this Act:

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    (1) "Agency
Department" means the Illinois Emergency 
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Management Agency
Department of Nuclear Safety
of the State of 
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Illinois.

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    (2) "Director" means the Director of the Illinois Emergency 
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Management Agency
Department of Nuclear Safety.

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    (3) "Person" means any individual, corporation, 
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partnership, firm,
association, trust, estate, public or 
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private institution, group,
agency, political subdivision of 
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this State, any other state or
political subdivision or agency 
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thereof, and any legal successor,
representative, agent, or 
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agency of the foregoing.

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    (4) "NRC" means the United States Nuclear Regulatory 
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Commission or
any agency which succeeds to its functions in the 
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licensing of nuclear
power reactors or facilities for storing 
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spent nuclear fuel.

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    (5) "High-level radioactive waste" means (1) the highly 
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radioactive
material resulting from the reprocessing of spent 
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nuclear fuel including
liquid waste produced directly in 
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reprocessing and any solid material
derived from such liquid 
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waste that contains fission products in sufficient

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concentrations; and (2) the highly radioactive material that 
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the NRC has
determined to be high-level radioactive waste 
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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, 
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facilities for the chemical conversion
of uranium, and 
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facilities for the storage of spent nuclear fuel or
high-level 
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radioactive waste and facilities that possess radioactive 
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materials in quantities specified by the Agency.

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    (7) "Spent nuclear fuel" means fuel that has been withdrawn 
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from a
nuclear reactor following irradiation, the constituent 
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elements of which
have not been separated by reprocessing.

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    (8) "Transuranic waste" means material contaminated with 
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elements that
have an atomic number greater than 92, including 
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neptunium, plutonium,
americium, and curium, excluding 
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radioactive wastes shipped to a licensed
low-level radioactive 
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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 
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becoming law.