SUMMARY--Requires establishment of monitoring stations for transportation of high-level radioactive waste into this state. (BDR 40-1042)
FISCAL NOTE: Effect on Local Government: No.
Effect on the State or on Industrial Insurance: Yes.
EXPLANATION - Matter in italics is new; matter in brackets [ ] is material to be omitted.
AN ACT relating to radioactive waste; requiring the department of motor vehicles and public safety to establish monitoring stations to monitor and control the transportation of high-level radioactive waste into this state; requiring the department to report to the committee on high-level radioactive waste concerning such stations; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEVADA, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEMBLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1 Chapter 459 of NRS is hereby amended by adding thereto the provisions set forth as sections 2, 3 and 4 of this act.
Sec. 2 "High-level radioactive waste" has the meaning ascribed to it in 10 C.F.R. § 60.2, as that section existed on October 1, 1997.
Sec. 3 1. The department shall establish a system of monitoring stations to monitor and control the transportation of high-level radioactive waste into this state. A monitoring station must be located on each highway and railroad upon which high-level radioactive waste will be transported into this state at a location on the highway or railroad which is as close as practicable to the point of entry into this state.
2. The department shall coordinate with those state and federal agencies which regulate high-level radioactive waste and the transportation of such waste to ensure that a monitoring station is established on each highway and railroad as required by this section.
3. Each person transporting high-level radioactive waste into this state shall, upon entering this state, stop at the nearest monitoring station. The department shall:
(a) Inspect each shipment to ensure that the transportation of the high-level radioactive waste is in compliance with all applicable federal and state laws; and
(b) Make such records and take such actions as are necessary to monitor and control the progress of the transportation of the high-level radioactive waste in this state.
4. The department shall adopt such regulations as are necessary to carry out the provisions of the section.
Sec. 4 The department shall submit, on or before April 1 of each year, to the director of the legislative counsel bureau for transmittal to the committee on high-level radioactive waste a report which contains:
1. A summary of the actions taken by the department during the previous calendar year to comply with section 3 of this act; and
2. Information relating to the transportation of high-level radioactive waste within this state during the previous calendar year, including, but not limited to:
(a) The name and address of each person transporting the high-level radioactive waste;
(b) The total number of shipments that entered this state;
(c) The date that each shipment entered this state;
(d) The manner or mode in which each shipment was made;
(e) If the high-level radioactive waste was to be deposited at a facility located in this state for the disposal of such waste, the date on which the shipment was delivered to that facility;
(f) The size of each shipment;
(g) The specific contents of each shipment; and
(h) Such other information as the committee may require.
Sec. 5 NRS 459.700 is hereby amended to read as follows:
459.700As used in NRS 459.700 to 459.780, inclusive, and sections 2, 3 and 4 of this act, unless the context otherwise requires, the words and terms defined in NRS 459.701 to 459.7028, inclusive, and section 2 of this act, have the meanings ascribed to them in those sections.
Sec. 6 NRS 459.730 is hereby amended to read as follows:
459.7301. Any person who transports controlled quantities of radioactive material shall notify the division not less than 4 hours nor more than 48 hours before he begins to transport that material in this state.
2. Any person who transports high-level radioactive waste shall notify the governor or his designee not less than 4 hours before he begins to transport that waste in this state.
3. Information submitted to the division and the governor or his designee pursuant to subsections 1 and 2, unless otherwise required to be kept confidential, must be made available to other state and local governmental agencies concerned with hazardous materials whose operations or responsibilities involve a need for that information.
4. As used in this section, unless the context otherwise requires:
(a) "Controlled quantity" has the meaning ascribed to "highway route controlled quantity" in 49 C.F.R. § 173.403(l); and
(b) ["High-level radioactive waste" has the meaning ascribed to that term in 10 C.F.R. § 60.2; and
(c)] "Radioactive material" has the meaning ascribed to [that term] it in 49 C.F.R. § 173.403(y),
as those sections existed on January 1, 1987.