Document Citation: Cal Health & Saf Code § 114677

Header:
CALIFORNIA CODE ANNOTATED
HEALTH AND SAFETY CODE
Division 104. Environmental Health
Part 9. Radiation
Chapter 4. The Radiation Protection Act of 1999
Article 4. Responsibilities of Local Government

Date:
08/31/2009

Document:
Cal Health & Saf Code § 114677 (2010)

§ 114677. Duties of local government

(a) Local governments shall develop and maintain radiological emergency preparedness and response plans to safeguard the public in the emergency planning zone around a nuclear powerplant.

(b) The responsibilities of local government within an emergency planning zone include, but are not limited to, all of the following:

(1) Preemergency preparedness, including developing, maintaining, and enhancing radiological emergency response plans and procedures; maintaining emergency management organizations and operations and field response organizations; making training available to local government organizations in conjunction with utilities; providing public information and education in conjunction with utilities; maintaining essential communications systems; and implementing other preemergency preparedness measures, as required in accordance with federal requirements and state plans and procedures.

(2) Managing plume emergency phase response actions; providing available resources for emergency response; notifying emergency workers and the public; providing emergency public information; making protective action decisions and taking protective action response, to provide public health support in conjunction with the utility and state; providing radiologic exposure control; procuring additional resources, and taking other actions needed for emergency response.

(3) Participating in a joint state and local government decisionmaking process during ingestion pathway phases and recovery phases; coordinating implementation of protective action decisions with state and federal governments; continuing emergency public information in conjunction with state and federal organizations; and providing support for security of evacuated areas.

(c) At the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station, the Interjurisdictional Planning Committee shall identify a discussion leader to facilitate local government protective action decisions during the plume emergency phase of a nuclear powerplant emergency.

(d) A local government within an emergency planning zone may request services from a jurisdiction outside the emergency planning zone that are necessary to support an evacuated emergency planning zone population. Services requested by a local government within the emergency planning zone may include, but are not limited to, public information, congregate care, traffic management, radiological monitoring or decontamination of evacuees, and interjurisdictional coordination