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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 Radioactive Waste Storage Act is amended by
5 changing Section 6 as follows:
6 (420 ILCS 35/6) (from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 230.6)
7 Sec. 6. Radioactive waste sites; acquisition and funding
8 of maintenance.
9 (a) It is recognized by the General Assembly that any site
10 used for the concentration and storage of radioactive waste
11 material will represent a continuing and perpetual
12 responsibility in the interests of the public health, safety
13 and general welfare, and that the same must ultimately be
14 reposed in a sovereign government without regard for the
15 existence or nonexistence of any particular agency,
16 instrumentality, department, division or officer thereof. In
17 all instances lands, buildings and grounds which are to be
18 designated as sites for the concentration and storage of
19 radioactive waste materials shall be acquired in fee simple
20 absolute and dedicated in perpetuity to such purpose. All
21 rights, title and interest in, of, and to any radioactive
22 waste materials accepted by IEMA-OHS the Agency for permanent
23 storage at such facilities, shall upon acceptance become the
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1 property of the State and shall be in all respects
2 administered, controlled, and disposed of, including transfer
3 by sale, lease, loan or otherwise, by IEMA-OHS the Agency in
4 the name of the State. All fees received pursuant to contracts
5 or agreements entered into by IEMA-OHS the Agency shall be
6 deposited in the State Treasury and shall be set apart in a
7 special fund to be known as the "Low-Level Radioactive Waste
8 Facility Operation Radioactive Waste Site Perpetual Care
9 Fund". Moneys Monies deposited into in the Low-Level
10 Radioactive Waste Facility Operation Fund fund shall be
11 expended by IEMA-OHS the Agency to monitor and maintain the
12 site as required to protect the public health and safety on a
13 continuing and perpetual basis.
14 (b) All payments received by IEMA-OHS (formerly the
15 Department of Nuclear Safety) the Department of Nuclear Safety
16 (now the Agency) pursuant to the settlement agreement entered
17 May 25, 1988, in the matter of the People of the State of
18 Illinois, et al. v. Teledyne, Inc., et al. (No. 78 MR 25,
19 Circuit Court, Bureau County, Illinois) shall be held in the
20 Sheffield February 1982 Agreed Order Fund by the State
21 Treasurer separate and apart from all public moneys or funds
22 of the State, and shall be used only as provided in such
23 settlement agreement. Interest earned by the investment or
24 deposit of moneys accumulated in the Sheffield February 1982
25 Agreed Order Fund shall be deposited into the Sheffield
26 February 1982 Agreed Order Fund for the continued maintenance
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1 of the Sheffield Low-Level Radioactive Waste Site and the
2 surrounding buffer zone to protect the public health and
3 safety on a continuing and perpetual basis.
4 (Source: P.A. 103-569, eff. 6-1-24.)
5 Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
6 becoming law.Every fact on this page links to its source, starting with the official bill record.