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RADIATION PROTECTION ACT, the official text

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1   AN ACT concerning safety.

2   Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,

3 represented in the General Assembly:

4   Section 5. The Radiation Protection Act of 1990 is amended

5 by changing Section 34 and by adding Section 50 as follows:

6   (420 ILCS 40/34) (from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 210-34)

7   (Section scheduled to be repealed on January 1, 2027)

8   Sec. 34. Intrastate shippers of irradiated nuclear reactor

9 fuel.

10  (a) All intrastate and interstate shippers carriers of

11 irradiated nuclear reactor fuel in the State of Illinois are

12 hereby required to notify the Agency no less than 7 days 24

13 hours prior to any transportation of irradiated nuclear

14 reactor fuel within this State of the proposed route, the

15 place and time of entry into the State, and the amount and the

16 source of the fuel. The Agency shall immediately notify the

17 Illinois State Police, which shall notify the sheriff of those

18 counties along the route of such shipment.

19  (b) As used in this Section: For the purpose of this

20 subsection,

21  a "carrier" is any entity charged with transportation of

22 such irradiated reactor fuel from the nuclear steam-generating

23 facility to a storage facility.
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1   "Irradiated For the purpose of this subsection,

2 "irradiated reactor fuel" means fuel that has been withdrawn

3 from a nuclear reactor following irradiation, the constituent

4 elements of which have not been separated by reprocessing is

5 any nuclear fuel assembly containing fissile-bearing material

6 that has been irradiated in and removed from a nuclear reactor

7 facility.

8   "Shipper" means the entity who offers the irradiated

9 reactor fuel for transportation into commerce or the agent of

10 an entity who offers the irradiated reactor fuel for

11 transportation into commerce.

12 (Source: P.A. 102-538, eff. 8-20-21.)

13  (420 ILCS 40/50 new)

14  Sec. 50. Collection, storage, and disposal of radiation

15 sources; fees. The Agency may collect, store, and dispose of

16 uncontrolled sources of radiation that have entered the public

17 domain and that the Agency considers to be a threat to public

18 health and safety or the environment. The Agency may assess

19 actual costs, as appropriate, for the collection, storage, and

20 disposal of uncontrolled sources of radiation that have

21 entered the public domain and that the Agency considers to be a

22 threat to public health and safety or the environment against

23 any person that owns, owned, possesses, or is responsible for

24 the radioactive material entering the public domain.
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