Public Act 093-1029
 
SB3201 Enrolled LRB093 21124 RCE 47178 b

    AN ACT in relation to executive agencies.
 
    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
 
    Section 1. Short title. This Act may be cited as the
Nuclear Safety Law of 2004.
 
    Section 5. Cross references. The Illinois Emergency
Management Agency shall exercise, administer, and enforce all
rights, powers, and duties vested in Department of Nuclear
Safety by the following named Acts or Sections of those Acts:
        (1) The Radiation Protection Act of 1990.
        (2) The Radioactive Waste Storage Act.
        (3) The Personnel Radiation Monitoring Act.
        (4) The Laser System Act of 1997.
        (5) The Illinois Nuclear Safety Preparedness Act.
        (6) The Radioactive Waste Compact Enforcement Act.
        (7) Illinois Low-Level Radioactive Waste Management
    Act.
        (8) Illinois Nuclear Facility Safety Act.
        (9) Radioactive Waste Tracking and Permitting Act.
        (10) Radon Industry Licensing Act.
        (11) Uranium and Thorium Mill Tailings Control Act.
 
    Section 10. Nuclear and radioactive materials disposal.
The Illinois Emergency Management Agency shall formulate a
comprehensive plan regarding disposal of nuclear and
radioactive materials in this State. The Illinois Emergency
Management Agency shall establish minimum standards for
disposal sites, shall evaluate and publicize potential effects
on the public health and safety, and shall report to the
Governor and General Assembly all violations of the adopted
standards. In carrying out this function, the Illinois
Emergency Management Agency shall work in cooperation with the
Radiation Protection Advisory Council.
 
    Section 15. Radiation sources; radioactive waste disposal.
The Illinois Emergency Management Agency, instead of the
Department of Nuclear Safety, shall register, license,
inspect, and control radiation sources, shall purchase, lease,
accept, or acquire lands, buildings, and grounds where
radioactive wastes can be disposed, and shall supervise and
regulate the operation of the disposal sites.
 
    Section 20. Nuclear waste sites.
    (a) The Illinois Emergency Management Agency shall conduct
a survey and prepare and publish a list of sites in the State
where nuclear waste has been deposited, treated, or stored.
    (b) The Illinois Emergency Management Agency shall monitor
nuclear waste processing, use, handling, storage, and disposal
practices in the State, and shall determine existing and
expected rates of production of nuclear wastes.
    (c) The Illinois Emergency Management Agency shall compile
and make available to the public an annual report identifying
the type and quantities of nuclear waste generated, stored,
treated, or disposed of within this State and containing the
other information required to be collected under this Section.
 
    Section 25. Boiler and pressure vessel safety. The Illinois
Emergency Management Agency shall exercise, administer, and
enforce all of the following rights, powers, and duties:
        (1) Rights, powers, and duties vested in the Department
    of Nuclear Safety by the Boiler and Pressure Vessel Safety
    Act prior to the abolishment of the Department of Nuclear
    Safety, to the extent the rights, powers, and duties relate
    to nuclear steam-generating facilities.
        (2) Rights, powers, and duties relating to nuclear
    steam-generating facilities vested in the Department of
    Nuclear Safety by the Boiler and Pressure Vessel Safety Act
    prior to the abolishment of the Department of Nuclear
    Safety, which include but are not limited to the
    formulation of definitions, rules, and regulations for the
    safe and proper construction, installation, repair, use,
    and operation of nuclear steam-generating facilities, the
    adoption of rules for already installed nuclear
    steam-generating facilities, the adoption of rules for
    accidents in nuclear steam-generating facilities, the
    examination for or suspension of inspectors' licenses of
    the facilities, and the hearing of appeals from decisions
    relating to the facilities.
         (3) Rights, powers, and duties relating to nuclear
    steam-generating facilities, vested in the State Fire
    Marshal, the Chief Inspector, or the Department of Nuclear
    Safety prior to its abolishment, by the Boiler and Pressure
    Vessel Safety Act, which include but are not limited to the
    employment of inspectors of nuclear steam-generating
    facilities, issuance or suspension of their commissions,
    prosecution of the Act or rules promulgated thereunder for
    violations by nuclear steam-generating facilities,
    maintenance of inspection records of all the facilities,
    publication of rules relating to the facilities, having
    free access to the facilities, issuance of inspection
    certificates of the facilities, and the furnishing of bonds
    conditioned upon the faithful performance of their duties.
    The Director of Illinois Emergency Management Agency may
    designate a Chief Inspector, or other inspectors, as he or
    she deems necessary to perform the functions transferred by
    this Section.
    The transfer of rights, powers, and duties specified in
paragraphs (1), (2), and (3) is limited to the program
transferred by this Act and shall not be deemed to abolish or
diminish the exercise of those same rights, powers, and duties
by the Office of the State Fire Marshal, the Board of Boiler
and Pressure Vessel Rules, the State Fire Marshal, or the Chief
Inspector with respect to programs retained by the Office of
the State Fire Marshal.
 
    Section 30. Powers vested in Environmental Protection
Agency.
    (a) The Illinois Emergency Management Agency shall
exercise, administer, and enforce all rights, powers, and
duties vested in the Environmental Protection Agency by
paragraphs a, b, c, d, e, f, g, h, i, j, k, 1, m, n, o, p, q,
and r of Section 4 and by Sections 30 through 45 of the
Environmental Protection Act, to the extent that these powers
relate to standards of the Pollution Control Board adopted
under Section 35 of this Act. The transfer of rights, powers,
and duties specified in this Section is limited to the programs
transferred by Public Act 81-1516 and this Act and shall not be
deemed to abolish or diminish the exercise of those same
rights, powers, and duties by the Environmental Protection
Agency with respect to programs retained by the Environmental
Protection Agency.
    (b) Notwithstanding provisions in Sections 4 and 17.7 of
the Environmental Protection Act, the Environmental Protection
Agency is not required to perform analytical services for
community water supplies to determine compliance with
contaminant levels for radionuclides as specified in State or
federal drinking water regulations.
    (c) Community water supplies may request the Illinois
Emergency Management Agency to perform analytical services to
determine compliance with contaminant levels for radionuclides
as specified in State or federal drinking water regulations.
The Illinois Emergency Management Agency must adopt rules
establishing reasonable fees reflecting the direct and
indirect cost of testing community water supply samples. The
rules may require a community water supply to commit to
participation in the Illinois Emergency Management Agency's
testing program. Neither the Illinois Emergency Management
Agency nor the Environmental Protection Agency is required to
perform analytical services to determine contaminant levels
for radionuclides from any community water supply that does not
participate in the Illinois Emergency Management Agency's
testing program.
     Community water supplies that choose not to participate in
the Illinois Emergency Management Agency's testing program or
do not pay the fees established by the Illinois Emergency
Management Agency shall have the duty to analyze all drinking
water samples as required by State or federal safe drinking
water regulations to determine radionuclide contaminant
levels.
 
    Section 35. Pollution Control Board regulations concerning
nuclear plants. The Illinois Emergency Management Agency shall
enforce the regulations promulgated by the Pollution Control
Board under Section 25b of the Environmental Protection Act.
Under these regulations the Illinois Emergency Management
Agency shall require that a person, corporation, or public
authority intending to construct a nuclear steam-generating
facility or a nuclear fuel reprocessing plant file with the
Illinois Emergency Management Agency an environmental
feasibility report that incorporates the data provided in the
preliminary safety analysis required to be filed with the
United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
 
    Section 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, 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.
 
    Section 45. Appointment of Assistant Director. The
Assistant Director shall be an officer appointed by the
Governor, with the advice and consent of the Senate, and shall
serve for a term of 2 years beginning on the third Monday in
January of the odd-numbered year, and until a successor is
appointed and has qualified; except that the first Assistant
Director under this Act shall be the Director of Nuclear
Safety. The Assistant Director shall not hold any other
remunerative public office. The Assistant Director shall
receive an annual salary as set by the Governor from time to
time or the amount set by the Compensation Review Board,
whichever is higher. If set by the Governor, the Assistant
Director's annual salary may not exceed 85% of the Governor's
annual salary.
 
    Section 50. Personnel transferred. Personnel previously
assigned to the programs transferred from the Department of
Nuclear Safety are hereby transferred to the Illinois Emergency
Management Agency. The rights of the employees, the State, and
executive agencies under the Personnel Code, any collective
bargaining agreement, or any pension, retirement, or annuity
plan shall not be affected by this Act.
 
    Section 55. Records and property transferred. All books,
records, papers, documents, property (real or personal),
unexpended appropriations, and pending business in any way
pertaining to the rights, powers, and duties transferred by
this Act shall be delivered and transferred to the Illinois
Emergency Management Agency.
 
    Section 60. Data available to Department of Public Health.
All files, records, and data gathered by or under the direction
or authority of the Director under the Civil Administrative
Code of Illinois shall be made available to the Department of
Public Health under the Illinois Health and Hazardous
Substances Registry Act.
 
    Section 65. Nuclear accident plan. The Illinois Emergency
Management Agency shall have primary responsibility to
formulate a comprehensive emergency preparedness and response
plan for any nuclear accident. The Illinois Emergency
Management Agency shall also train and maintain an emergency
response team.
 
    Section 70. Nuclear and radioactive materials
transportation plan. The Illinois Emergency Management Agency
shall formulate a comprehensive plan regarding the
transportation of nuclear and radioactive materials in
Illinois. The Illinois Emergency Management Agency shall have
primary responsibility for all State governmental regulation
of the transportation of nuclear and radioactive materials,
insofar as the regulation pertains to the public health and
safety. This responsibility shall include but not be limited to
the authority to oversee and coordinate regulatory functions
performed by the Department of Transportation, the Department
of State Police, and the Illinois Commerce Commission.
 
    Section 75. State nuclear power policy. The Illinois
Emergency Management Agency, in cooperation with the
Department of Natural Resources, shall study (i) the impact and
cost of nuclear power and compare these to the impact and cost
of alternative sources of energy, (ii) the potential effects on
the public health and safety of all radioactive emissions from
nuclear power plants, and (iii) all other factors that bear on
the use of nuclear power or on nuclear safety. The Illinois
Emergency Management Agency shall formulate a general nuclear
policy for the State based on the findings of the study. The
policy shall include but not be limited to the feasibility of
continued use of nuclear power, effects of the use of nuclear
power on the public health and safety, minimum acceptable
standards for the location of any future nuclear power plants,
and rules and regulations for the reporting by public utilities
of radioactive emissions from power plants. The Illinois
Emergency Management Agency shall establish a reliable system
for communication between the public and the Illinois Emergency
Management Agency and for dissemination of information by the
Illinois Emergency Management Agency. The Illinois Emergency
Management Agency shall publicize the findings of all studies
and make the publications reasonably available to the public.
 
    Section 80. No accreditation, certification, or
registration if in default on educational loan. The Illinois
Emergency Management Agency shall not issue or renew to any
individual any accreditation, certification, or registration
(but excluding registration under Section 24.7 of the Radiation
Protection Act of 1990) otherwise issued by the Illinois
Emergency Management Agency if the individual has defaulted on
an educational loan guaranteed by the Illinois Student
Assistance Commission; however, the Agency may issue or renew
an accreditation, certification, or registration if the
individual has established a satisfactory repayment record as
determined by the Illinois Student Assistance Commission.
Additionally, any accreditation, certification, or
registration issued by the Illinois Emergency Management
Agency (but excluding registration under Section 24.7 of the
Radiation Protection Act of 1990) may be suspended or revoked
if the Illinois Emergency Management Agency, after the
opportunity for a hearing under the appropriate accreditation,
certification, or registration Act, finds that the holder has
failed to make satisfactory repayment to the Illinois Student
Assistance Commission for a delinquent or defaulted loan as
determined by the Illinois Student Assistance Commission.
 
    Section 85. Saving clause.
    (a) The rights, powers and duties transferred to the
Illinois Emergency Management Agency by this Act shall be
vested in and shall be exercised by the Illinois Emergency
Management Agency. Each act done in exercise of such rights,
powers, and duties shall have the same legal effect as if done
by the Department of Nuclear Safety, its divisions, officers,
or employees.
    (b) Every person or corporation shall be subject to the
same obligations and duties and any penalties, civil or
criminal, arising therefrom, and shall have the same rights
arising from the exercise of such powers, duties, rights and
responsibilities as had been exercised by the Department of
Nuclear Safety, its divisions, officers or employees.
    (c) Every officer of the Illinois Emergency Management
Agency shall, for any offense, be subject to the same penalty
or penalties, civil or criminal, as are prescribed by existing
law for the same offense by any officer whose powers or duties
were transferred under this Act.
    (d) Whenever reports or notices are now required to be made
or given or papers or documents furnished or served by any
person to or upon the agencies and officers transferred by this
Act, the same shall be made, given, furnished, or served in the
same manner to or upon the Illinois Emergency Management
Agency.
    (e) This Act shall not affect any act done, ratified, or
canceled or any right occurring or established or any action or
proceeding had or commenced in an administrative, civil, or
criminal cause regarding the Department of Nuclear Safety
before this Act takes effect, but such actions or proceedings
may be prosecuted and continued by the Illinois Emergency
Management Agency.
    (f) Any rules of the Department of Nuclear Safety that are
in full force on the effective date of this Act and that have
been duly adopted by the Illinois Emergency Management Agency
shall become the rules of the Illinois Emergency Management
Agency. This Act shall not affect the legality of any such
rules in the Illinois Administrative Code. Any proposed rules
filed with the Secretary of State by the Department of Nuclear
Safety that are pending in the rulemaking process on the
effective date of this Act, shall be deemed to have been filed
by the Illinois Emergency Management Agency. As soon as
practicable hereafter, the Illinois Emergency Management
Agency shall revise and clarify the rules transferred to it
under this Act to reflect the reorganization of rights, powers,
and duties effected by this Act using the procedures for
recodification of rules available under the Illinois
Administrative Procedure Act, except that existing title,
part, and section numbering for the affected rules may be
retained. The Illinois Emergency Management Agency may propose
and adopt under the Illinois Administrative Procedure Act such
other rules of the reorganized agencies that will now be
administered by the Illinois Emergency Management Agency.
    (g) If any provision of this Act or its application to any
person or circumstances is held invalid by any court of
competent jurisdiction, this invalidity does not affect any
other provision or application. To achieve this purpose, the
provisions of this Act are declared to be severable.
 
    Section 905. The Civil Administrative Code of Illinois is
amended by changing Sections 5-15, 5-20, and 5-160 as follows:
 
    (20 ILCS 5/5-15)  (was 20 ILCS 5/3)
    Sec. 5-15. Departments of State government. The
Departments of State government are created as follows:
    The Department on Aging.
    The Department of Agriculture.
    The Department of Central Management Services.
    The Department of Children and Family Services.
    The Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity.
    The Department of Corrections.
    The Department of Employment Security.
    The Emergency Management Agency.
    The Department of Financial Institutions.
    The Department of Human Rights.
    The Department of Human Services.
    The Department of Insurance.
    The Department of Labor.
    The Department of the Lottery.
    The Department of Natural Resources.
    The Department of Nuclear Safety.
    The Department of Professional Regulation.
    The Department of Public Aid.
    The Department of Public Health.
    The Department of Revenue.
    The Department of State Police.
    The Department of Transportation.
    The Department of Veterans' Affairs.
(Source: P.A. 93-25, eff. 6-20-03.)
 
    (20 ILCS 5/5-20)  (was 20 ILCS 5/4)
    Sec. 5-20. Heads of departments. Each department shall have
an officer as its head who shall be known as director or
secretary and who shall, subject to the provisions of the Civil
Administrative Code of Illinois, execute the powers and
discharge the duties vested by law in his or her respective
department.
    The following officers are hereby created:
    Director of Aging, for the Department on Aging.
    Director of Agriculture, for the Department of
Agriculture.
    Director of Central Management Services, for the
Department of Central Management Services.
    Director of Children and Family Services, for the
Department of Children and Family Services.
    Director of Commerce and Economic Opportunity, for the
Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity.
    Director of Corrections, for the Department of
Corrections.
    Director of Emergency Management Agency, for the Emergency
Management Agency.
    Director of Employment Security, for the Department of
Employment Security.
    Director of Financial Institutions, for the Department of
Financial Institutions.
    Director of Human Rights, for the Department of Human
Rights.
    Secretary of Human Services, for the Department of Human
Services.
    Director of Insurance, for the Department of Insurance.
    Director of Labor, for the Department of Labor.
    Director of the Lottery, for the Department of the Lottery.
    Director of Natural Resources, for the Department of
Natural Resources.
    Director of Nuclear Safety, for the Department of Nuclear
Safety.
    Director of Professional Regulation, for the Department of
Professional Regulation.
    Director of Public Aid, for the Department of Public Aid.
    Director of Public Health, for the Department of Public
Health.
    Director of Revenue, for the Department of Revenue.
    Director of State Police, for the Department of State
Police.
    Secretary of Transportation, for the Department of
Transportation.
    Director of Veterans' Affairs, for the Department of
Veterans' Affairs.
(Source: P.A. 93-25, eff. 6-20-03.)
 
    (20 ILCS 5/5-160)  (was 20 ILCS 5/5.13h)
    Sec. 5-160. In the Emergency Management Agency Department
of Nuclear Safety. Assistant Director of the Emergency
Management Agency Nuclear Safety.
(Source: P.A. 91-239, eff. 1-1-00.)
 
    (20 ILCS 2005/Act rep.)
    Section 910. The Department of Nuclear Safety Law of the
Civil Administrative Code of Illinois is repealed.
 
    Section 915. The Illinois Nuclear Safety Preparedness Act
is amended by changing Sections 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10 as
follows:
 
    (420 ILCS 5/3)  (from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 4303)
    Sec. 3. Definitions. Unless the context otherwise clearly
requires, as used in this Act:
    (1) "Agency Department" means the Illinois Emergency
Management Agency Department of Nuclear Safety of the State of
Illinois.
    (2) "Director" means the Director of the Illinois Emergency
Management Agency Department of Nuclear Safety.
    (3) "Person" means any individual, corporation,
partnership, firm, association, trust, estate, public or
private institution, group, agency, political subdivision of
this State, any other state or political subdivision or agency
thereof, and any legal successor, representative, agent, or
agency of the foregoing.
    (4) "NRC" means the United States Nuclear Regulatory
Commission or any agency which succeeds to its functions in the
licensing of nuclear power reactors or facilities for storing
spent nuclear fuel.
    (5) "High-level radioactive waste" means (1) the highly
radioactive material resulting from the reprocessing of spent
nuclear fuel including liquid waste produced directly in
reprocessing and any solid material derived from such liquid
waste that contains fission products in sufficient
concentrations; and (2) the highly radioactive material that
the NRC has determined to be high-level radioactive waste
requiring permanent isolation.
    (6) "Nuclear facilities" means nuclear power plants,
facilities housing nuclear test and research reactors,
facilities for the chemical conversion of uranium, and
facilities for the storage of spent nuclear fuel or high-level
radioactive waste.
    (7) "Spent nuclear fuel" means fuel that has been withdrawn
from a nuclear reactor following irradiation, the constituent
elements of which have not been separated by reprocessing.
    (8) "Transuranic waste" means material contaminated with
elements that have an atomic number greater than 92, including
neptunium, plutonium, americium, and curium, excluding
radioactive wastes shipped to a licensed low-level radioactive
waste disposal facility.
    (9) "Highway route controlled quantity of radioactive
materials" means that quantity of radioactive materials
defined as a highway route controlled quantity under rules of
the United States Department of Transportation, or any
successor agency.
(Source: P.A. 90-601, eff. 6-26-98.)
 
    (420 ILCS 5/4)  (from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 4304)
    Sec. 4. Nuclear accident plans; fees. Persons engaged
within this State in the production of electricity utilizing
nuclear energy, the operation of nuclear test and research
reactors, the chemical conversion of uranium, or the
transportation, storage or possession of spent nuclear fuel or
high-level radioactive waste shall pay fees to cover the cost
of establishing plans and programs to deal with the possibility
of nuclear accidents. Except as provided below, the fees shall
be used exclusively to fund those Agency Departmental and local
government activities defined as necessary by the Director to
implement and maintain the plans and programs authorized by
this Act. Local governments incurring expenses attributable to
implementation and maintenance of the plans and programs
authorized by this Act may apply to the Agency Department for
compensation for those expenses, and upon approval by the
Director of applications submitted by local governments, the
Agency Department shall compensate local governments from fees
collected under this Section. Compensation for local
governments shall include $250,000 in any year through fiscal
year 1993, $275,000 in fiscal year 1994 and fiscal year 1995,
$300,000 in fiscal year 1996, $400,000 in fiscal year 1997, and
$450,000 in fiscal year 1998 and thereafter. Appropriations to
the Department of Nuclear Safety (of which the Agency is the
successor) for compensation to local governments from the
Nuclear Safety Emergency Preparedness Fund provided for in this
Section shall not exceed $650,000 per State fiscal year.
Expenditures from these appropriations shall not exceed, in a
single State fiscal year, the annual compensation amount made
available to local governments under this Section, unexpended
funds made available for local government compensation in the
previous fiscal year, and funds recovered under the Illinois
Grant Funds Recovery Act during previous fiscal years.
Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, the
expenditure limitation for fiscal year 1998 shall include the
additional $100,000 made available to local governments for
fiscal year 1997 under this amendatory Act of 1997. Any funds
within these expenditure limitations, including the additional
$100,000 made available for fiscal year 1997 under this
amendatory Act of 1997, that remain unexpended at the close of
business on June 30, 1997, and on June 30 of each succeeding
year, shall be excluded from the calculations of credits under
subparagraph (3) of this Section. The Agency Department shall,
by rule, determine the method for compensating local
governments under this Section. In addition, a portion of the
fees collected may be appropriated to the Illinois Emergency
Management Agency for activities associated with preparing and
implementing plans to deal with the effects of nuclear
accidents. The appropriation shall not exceed $500,000 in any
year preceding fiscal year 1996; the appropriation shall not
exceed $625,000 in fiscal year 1996, $725,000 in fiscal year
1997, and $775,000 in fiscal year 1998 and thereafter. The fees
shall consist of the following:
    (1) A one-time charge of $590,000 per nuclear power station
in this State to be paid by the owners of the stations.
    (2) An additional charge of $240,000 per nuclear power
station for which a fee under subparagraph (1) was paid before
June 30, 1982.
    (3) Through June 30, 1982, an annual fee of $75,000 per
year for each nuclear power reactor for which an operating
license has been issued by the NRC, and after June 30, 1982,
and through June 30, 1984 an annual fee of $180,000 per year
for each nuclear power reactor for which an operating license
has been issued by the NRC, and after June 30, 1984, and
through June 30, 1991, an annual fee of $400,000 for each
nuclear power reactor for which an operating license has been
issued by the NRC, to be paid by the owners of nuclear power
reactors operating in this State. After June 30, 1991, the
owners of nuclear power reactors in this State for which
operating licenses have been issued by the NRC shall pay the
following fees for each such nuclear power reactor: for State
fiscal year 1992, $925,000; for State fiscal year 1993,
$975,000; for State fiscal year 1994; $1,010,000; for State
fiscal year 1995, $1,060,000; for State fiscal years 1996 and
1997, $1,110,000; for State fiscal year 1998, $1,314,000; for
State fiscal year 1999, $1,368,000; for State fiscal year 2000,
$1,404,000; for State fiscal year 2001, $1,696,455; for State
fiscal year 2002, $1,730,636; for State fiscal year 2003 and
subsequent fiscal years, $1,757,727. Within 120 days after the
end of the State fiscal year, the Agency Department shall
determine, from the records of the Office of the Comptroller,
the balance in the Nuclear Safety Emergency Preparedness Fund.
When the balance in the fund, less any fees collected under
this Section prior to their being due and payable for the
succeeding fiscal year or years, exceeds $400,000 at the close
of business on June 30, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, and 1998,
or exceeds $500,000 at the close of business on June 30, 1999
and June 30 of each succeeding year, the excess shall be
credited to the owners of nuclear power reactors who are
assessed fees under this subparagraph. Credits shall be applied
against the fees to be collected under this subparagraph for
the subsequent fiscal year. Each owner shall receive as a
credit that amount of the excess which corresponds
proportionately to the amount the owner contributed to all fees
collected under this subparagraph in the fiscal year that
produced the excess.
    (3.5) The owner of a nuclear power reactor that notifies
the Nuclear Regulatory Commission that the nuclear power
reactor has permanently ceased operations during State fiscal
year 1998 shall pay the following fees for each such nuclear
power reactor: $1,368,000 for State fiscal year 1999 and
$1,404,000 for State fiscal year 2000.
    (4) A capital expenditure surcharge of $1,400,000 per
nuclear power station in this State, whether operating or under
construction, shall be paid by the owners of the station.
    (5) An annual fee of $25,000 per year for each site for
which a valid operating license has been issued by NRC for the
operation of an away-from-reactor spent nuclear fuel or
high-level radioactive waste storage facility, to be paid by
the owners of facilities for the storage of spent nuclear fuel
or high-level radioactive waste for others in this State.
    (6) A one-time charge of $280,000 for each facility in this
State housing a nuclear test and research reactor, to be paid
by the operator of the facility. However, this charge shall not
be required to be paid by any tax-supported institution.
    (7) A one-time charge of $50,000 for each facility in this
State for the chemical conversion of uranium, to be paid by the
owner of the facility.
    (8) An annual fee of $150,000 per year for each facility in
this State housing a nuclear test and research reactor, to be
paid by the operator of the facility. However, this annual fee
shall not be required to be paid by any tax-supported
institution.
    (9) An annual fee of $15,000 per year for each facility in
this State for the chemical conversion of uranium, to be paid
by the owner of the facility.
    (10) A fee assessed at the rate of $2,500 per truck for
each truck shipment and $4,500 for the first cask and $3,000
for each additional cask for each rail shipment of spent
nuclear fuel, high-level radioactive waste, or transuranic
waste, or a highway route controlled quantity of radioactive
materials received at or departing from any nuclear power
station or away-from-reactor spent nuclear fuel, high-level
radioactive waste, or transuranic waste storage facility, or
other facility in this State to be paid by the shipper of the
spent nuclear fuel, high level radioactive waste, or
transuranic waste, or highway route controlled quantity of
radioactive material. Truck shipments of greater than 250 miles
in Illinois are subject to a surcharge of $25 per mile over 250
miles for each truck in the shipment. The amount of fees
collected each fiscal year under this subparagraph shall be
excluded from the calculation of credits under subparagraph (3)
of this Section.
    (11) A fee assessed at the rate of $2,500 per truck for
each truck shipment and $4,500 for the first cask and $3,000
for each additional cask for each rail shipment of spent
nuclear fuel, high-level radioactive waste, or transuranic
waste, or a highway route controlled quantity of radioactive
materials traversing the State to be paid by the shipper of the
spent nuclear fuel, high level radioactive waste, or
transuranic waste, or highway route controlled quantity of
radioactive material. Truck shipments of greater than 250 miles
in Illinois are subject to a surcharge of $25 per mile over 250
miles for each truck in the shipment. The amount of fees
collected each fiscal year under this subparagraph shall be
excluded from the calculation of credits under subparagraph (3)
of this Section.
    (12) In each of the State fiscal years 1988 through 1991,
in addition to the annual fee provided for in subparagraph (3),
a fee of $400,000 for each nuclear power reactor for which an
operating license has been issued by the NRC, to be paid by the
owners of nuclear power reactors operating in this State.
Within 120 days after the end of the State fiscal years ending
June 30, 1988, June 30, 1989, June 30, 1990, and June 30, 1991,
the Agency Department shall determine the expenses of the
Illinois Nuclear Safety Preparedness Program paid from funds
appropriated for those fiscal years. When the aggregate of all
fees, charges, and surcharges collected under this Section
during any fiscal year exceeds the total expenditures under
this Act from appropriations for that fiscal year, the excess
shall be credited to the owners of nuclear power reactors who
are assessed fees under this subparagraph, and the credits
shall be applied against the fees to be collected under this
subparagraph for the subsequent fiscal year. Each owner shall
receive as a credit that amount of the excess that corresponds
proportionately to the amount the owner contributed to all fees
collected under this subparagraph in the fiscal year that
produced the excess.
(Source: P.A. 91-47, eff. 6-30-99; 91-857, eff. 6-22-00;
92-576, eff. 6-26-02.)
 
    (420 ILCS 5/5)  (from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 4305)
    Sec. 5. (a) Except as otherwise provided in this Section,
within 30 days after the beginning of each State fiscal year,
each person who possessed a valid operating license issued by
the NRC for a nuclear power reactor or a spent fuel storage
facility during any portion of the previous fiscal year shall
pay to the Agency Department the fees imposed by Section 4 of
this Act. The one-time facility charge assessed pursuant to
subparagraph (1) of Section 4 shall be paid to the Agency
Department not less than 2 years prior to scheduled
commencement of commercial operation. The additional facility
charge assessed pursuant to subparagraph (2) of Section 4 shall
be paid to the Department within 90 days of June 30, 1982. Fees
assessed pursuant to subparagraph (3) of Section 4 for State
fiscal year 1992 shall be payable as follows: $400,000 due on
August 1, 1991, and $525,000 due on January 1, 1992. Fees
assessed pursuant to subparagraph (3) of Section 4 for State
fiscal year 1993 and subsequent fiscal years shall be due and
payable in two equal payments on July 1 and January 1 during
the fiscal year in which the fee is due. Fees assessed pursuant
to subparagraph (4) of Section 4 shall be paid in six payments,
the first, in the amount of $400,000, shall be due and payable
30 days after the effective date of this Amendatory Act of
1984. Subsequent payments shall be in the amount of $200,000
each, and shall be due and payable annually on August 1, 1985
through August 1, 1989, inclusive. Fees assessed under the
provisions of subparagraphs (6) and (7) of Section 4 of this
Act shall be paid on or before January 1, 1990. Fees assessed
under the provisions of subparagraphs (8) and (9) of Section 4
of this Act shall be paid on or before January 1st of each
year, beginning January 1, 1990. Fees assessed under the
provisions of subparagraphs (10) and (11) of Section 4 of this
Act shall be paid to the Agency Department within 60 days after
completion of such shipments within this State. Fees assessed
pursuant to subparagraph (12) of Section 4 shall be paid to the
Agency Department by each person who possessed a valid
operating license issued by the NRC for a nuclear power reactor
during any portion of the previous State fiscal year as
follows: the fee due in fiscal year 1988 shall be paid on
January 15, 1988, the fee due in fiscal year 1989 shall be paid
on December 1, 1988, and subsequent fees shall be paid annually
on December 1, 1989 through December 1, 1990.
    (b) Fees assessed pursuant to paragraph (3.5) of Section 4
for State fiscal years 1999 and 2000 shall be due and payable
in 2 equal payments on July 1 and January 1 during the fiscal
year in which the fee is due. The fee due on July 1, 1998 shall
be payable on that date, or within 10 days after the effective
date of this amendatory Act of 1998, whichever is later.
    (c) Any person who fails to pay a fee assessed under
Section 4 of this Act within 90 days after the fee is payable
is liable in a civil action for an amount not to exceed 4 times
the amount assessed and not paid. The action shall be brought
by the Attorney General at the request of the Agency
Department. If the action involves a fixed facility in
Illinois, the action shall be brought in the Circuit Court of
the county in which the facility is located. If the action does
not involve a fixed facility in Illinois, the action shall be
brought in the Circuit Court of Sangamon County.
(Source: P.A. 90-601, eff. 6-26-98; 91-47, eff. 6-30-99.)
 
    (420 ILCS 5/6)  (from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 4306)
    Sec. 6. The Agency Department shall prepare a budget
showing the cost (including capital expenditures) to be
incurred in administering this Act during the fiscal year in
question. Such budget shall be prepared only after consultation
with those liable for the fees imposed by this Act as to the
costs necessary to enable the Agency Department to perform its
responsibilities under this Act.
(Source: P.A. 81-577.)
 
    (420 ILCS 5/7)  (from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 4307)
    Sec. 7. All monies received by the Agency Department under
this Act shall be deposited in the State Treasury and shall be
set apart in a special fund to be known as the "Nuclear Safety
Emergency Preparedness Fund". All monies within the Nuclear
Safety Emergency Preparedness Fund shall be invested by the
State Treasurer in accordance with established investment
practices. Interest earned by such investment shall be returned
to the Nuclear Safety Emergency Preparedness Fund. Monies
deposited in this fund shall be expended by the Director only
to support the activities of the Illinois Nuclear Safety
Preparedness Program, including activities of the Illinois
State Police and the Illinois Commerce Commission under Section
8(a)(9).
(Source: P.A. 92-576, eff. 6-26-02.)
 
    (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;
        (4) Radiological training of state and local emergency
    response personnel in accordance with the Agency's
    Department'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 (20 ILCS
    2005/2005-35);
        (9) Development and implementation of a plan for
    inspecting and escorting all shipments of spent nuclear
    fuel, high-level radioactive waste, and 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.
    (b) The Agency Department may incorporate data collected by
the operator of a nuclear facility into the Agency's
Department's remote monitoring system.
    (c) The owners of each nuclear power reactor in Illinois
shall provide the Agency Department all system status signals
which initiate Emergency Action Level Declarations, actuate
accident mitigation and provide mitigation verification as
directed by the Agency Department. The Agency Department 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 Department 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 Department
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
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. 90-601, eff. 6-26-98; 91-239, eff. 1-1-00.)
 
    (420 ILCS 5/9)  (from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 4309)
    Sec. 9. Any equipment purchased by the Agency Department to
be installed on the premises of a nuclear facility pursuant to
the provisions of subsections (1), (2) and (7) of Section 8 of
this Act shall be installed by the owner of such nuclear
facility in accordance with criteria and standards established
by the Director of the Agency Department, including criteria
for location, supporting utilities, and methods of
installation. Such installation shall be at no cost to the
Agency Department. The owner of the nuclear facility shall
also, at its expense, pay for modifications of its facility as
requested by the Department to accommodate the Agency's
Department's equipment including updated equipment, and to
accommodate changes in the Agency's Department's criteria and
standards.
(Source: P.A. 86-901.)
 
    (420 ILCS 5/10)  (from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 4310)
    Sec. 10. The Agency Department may accept and administer
according to law, loans, grants, or other funds or gifts from
the Federal Government and from other sources, public and
private, for carrying out its functions under this Act.
(Source: P.A. 83-1342.)
 
    Section 999. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.