Bill Text: CT HB05307 | 2014 | General Assembly | Comm Sub
Bill Title: An Act Revising Certain Requirements For The Registration Of Radioactive Materials.
Sponsorship: Committee Bill
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-04-22 - File Number 658 [HB05307 Detail]
Download: Connecticut-2014-HB05307-Comm_Sub.html
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February Session, 2014 |
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AN ACT REVISING CERTAIN REQUIREMENTS FOR THE REGISTRATION OF RADIOACTIVE MATERIALS.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened:
Section 1. Section 22a-148 of the general statutes is repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective July 1, 2015):
(a) As used in this section, "ionizing radiation" includes gamma rays, x-rays, alpha and beta particles, neutrons, protons, high-speed electrons and other atomic or nuclear particles, but does not include sound or radio waves or light of wave lengths ranging from infrared to ultraviolet inclusive, and "radioactive materials" includes any materials, solid, liquid or gas, that emit ionizing radiation spontaneously.
(b) No person, firm, corporation, town, city or borough shall operate or cause to be operated any source of ionizing radiation or shall produce, transport, store, possess or dispose of radioactive materials except under conditions which comply with regulations or with orders imposed by the Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection for the protection of the public health and preservation of the environment. Such regulations or orders shall be based to the extent deemed practicable by said department on the regulations of the United States Atomic Energy Commission, issued under authority granted to said commission by the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 and entitled "Standards for Protection against Radiation", or, if such regulations should be deemed inappropriate by the Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection, on the latest recommendations of the National Committee on Radiation, as published by the United States Department of Commerce, National Bureau of Standards. No regulation pertaining to radiation sources and radioactive materials proposed to be issued by the commissioner shall become effective until thirty days after it has been submitted to the Coordinator of Atomic Development Activities unless, upon a finding of emergency need, the governor by order waives all or any part of said thirty-day period. In no case shall any source of ionizing radiation be utilized otherwise than at the lowest practical level consistent with the best use of the radiation facilities or radioactive materials involved.
(c) (1) Except as hereinafter provided, each person, firm, corporation, town, city and borough conducting or planning to conduct any operation within the scope of this section shall register with the Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection on forms provided for the purpose and shall reregister [annually] biennially in January of each odd-numbered year. Such registration shall be accompanied by a fee of [two] four hundred dollars. Such registration fee shall not be required of any fire department that registers a chemical detector that contains radioactive material. The commissioner may require registrants to state the type or types of sources of radiation involved, the maximum size or rating of each source, the qualifications of the supervisory personnel, the protective measures contemplated by the registrant and such other information as it determines to be necessary. After initial registration, reregistration shall be required for any radiation installation or mobile source of radiation at any other time when any increase is contemplated in the number of sources, the source strength, the output or the types of radiation energy involved. The act of registration shall not be interpreted to imply approval by the commissioner of the manner in which the activities requiring registration are carried out. (2) The activities described below are exempted from the registration requirements of this section: (A) The production, transportation, storage, use and disposal of naturally occurring radioactive materials of equivalent specific radioactivity not exceeding that of natural potassium; (B) the production, transportation, storage, use and disposal of other radioactive materials in quantities insufficient to involve risk of radiologic damage to a person; (C) the operation of equipment that is primarily not intended to produce radiation and that, by nature of design, does not produce radiation at the point of nearest approach in quantities sufficient to produce radiologic damage to a person; (D) the transportation of any radioactive material in conformity with regulations of the Interstate Commerce Commission or other agency of the federal government having jurisdiction.
This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following sections: | ||
Section 1 |
July 1, 2015 |
22a-148 |
ENV |
Joint Favorable Subst. C/R |
FIN |
FIN |
Joint Favorable Subst. |