Montana Code 10-3-1308. Responsibilities of highway patrol — monitoring of motor carriers — billing
10-3-1308. Responsibilities of highway patrol — monitoring of motor carriers — billing. (1) After receiving notification from the disaster and emergency services division that a motor carrier will be transporting high-level radioactive waste or transuranic waste through the state, the highway patrol shall establish a plan for monitoring the shipment.
Terms Used In Montana Code 10-3-1308
- High-level radioactive waste: means :
(a)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 the liquid waste that contains fission products in sufficient concentrations;
(b)irradiated reactor fuel; or
(c)other highly radioactive waste material that the U. See Montana Code 10-3-1303
- State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See Montana Code 1-1-201
- Transuranic waste: means material contaminated with elements that have an atomic number greater than 92, including neptunium, plutonium, americium, and curium, and that are in concentrations greater than 10 nanocuries per gram or in other concentrations that the U. See Montana Code 10-3-1303
(2)Monitoring a shipment by motor carrier may include escorting the vehicle through the state, establishing checkpoints, shadowing the vehicle, electronically following the vehicle’s movements, or any other method determined by the highway patrol to be effective and safe.
(3)The highway patrol shall coordinate inspection of the motor carrier with the department of transportation’s motor carrier services division.
(4)The highway patrol shall determine the cost that it has incurred in monitoring each motor carrier and shall submit a bill for reimbursement to the disaster and emergency services division for payment out of the account established in 10-3-1304(1).
(5)The routing of the transport by motor carrier of high-level radioactive waste and transuranic waste must be determined by the department of transportation and the appropriate regulating federal authority.