Public Act 094-0849
 		





HB1620 Enrolled
LRB094 02868 RSP 32869 b






    AN ACT concerning safety.

 
    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, 
represented in the General Assembly: 

 
    Section 5. The Environmental Protection Act is amended  by 
adding Section 13.6 as follows:
 
    (415 ILCS 5/13.6  new)
    Sec. 13.6. Release of radionuclides at nuclear power 
plants.
    (a) The purpose of this Section is to require the detection 
and reporting of unpermitted releases of any radionuclides into 
groundwater, surface water, or soil at nuclear power plants, to 
the extent that federal law or regulation does not preempt such 
requirements.
    (b) No owner or operator of a nuclear power plant shall 
violate  any rule adopted under this Section.
    (c) Within 24 hours after an unpermitted release of a 
radionuclide from a nuclear power plant, the owner or operator 
of the nuclear power plant where the release occurred shall 
report the release to the Agency and the Illinois Emergency 
Management Agency. For purposes of this Section, "unpermitted 
release of a radionuclide" means any spilling, leaking, 
emitting, discharging, escaping, leaching, or disposing of a 
radionuclide into groundwater, surface water, or soil that is 
not permitted under State or federal law or regulation.
    (d) The Agency and the Illinois Emergency Management Agency 
shall inspect each nuclear power plant for compliance with the 
requirements of this Section and rules adopted pursuant to this 
Section no less than once each calendar quarter. Nothing in 
this Section shall limit the Agency's authority to make 
inspections under Section 4 or any other provision of this Act.
    (e) No later than one year after the effective date of this 
amendatory Act of the 94th General Assembly, the Agency, in 
consultation with the Illinois Emergency Management Agency, 
shall propose rules to the Board prescribing standards for 
detecting and reporting unpermitted releases of  radionuclides. 
No later than one year after receipt of the Agency's proposal, 
the Board shall adopt rules prescribing standards for detecting 
and reporting unpermitted releases of radionuclides. Rules 
adopted under this subsection may also include standards for 
self-inspection by the owner or operator of the nuclear power 
plant in lieu of the inspections required under subsection (d)  
of this Section.

 
    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon 
becoming law.



Effective Date:  6/12/2006