California Health and Safety Code 114680 – Entities providing utilities shall perform all of the following …
Entities providing utilities shall perform all of the following duties and functions:
(a) Any public or private utility that operates a nuclear powerplant in the state shall have a response organization that can be integrated with federal, state, and local government emergency response resources during a radiological accident.
Terms Used In California Health and Safety Code 114680
- Local government: means a city or county that provides emergency response for a nuclear powerplant emergency. See California Health and Safety Code 114650
- Plume emergency phase: means the period beginning at the onset of an emergency at a nuclear powerplant when immediate decisions for public protective actions are needed. See California Health and Safety Code 114650
- State: means the State of California, unless applied to the different parts of the United States. See California Health and Safety Code 23
(b) Nuclear facility operators shall develop and maintain radiological emergency preparedness and response plans in coordination with state and local government.
(c) Nuclear utilities have the primary responsibility for planning and implementing emergency measures within facility boundaries and shall do all of the following:
(1) Perform accident assessments.
(2) Prepare public protective action recommendations for decisionmakers during the plume emergency phase.
(3) Provide information to the appropriate state and local government in support of their independent assessment of offsite radiological conditions relevant to protective action decisions during the plume emergency phase.
(4) Coordinate with state and local governments in maintaining nuclear powerplant public education information.
(5) Support state and local government in nuclear powerplant planning, training, drills and exercises, and emergency preparedness efforts.
(Repealed and added by Stats. 1998, Ch. 543, Sec. 5. Effective January 1, 1999.)