Section 10. Planning for low-level radioactive waste management shall be conducted, subject to appropriation, in accordance with sections eleven to seventeen, inclusive, which shall be known and cited as ”Phase I of the Low–Level Radioactive Waste Management Act”. The provisions of such sections shall be implemented so as to require appropriate source minimization, volume minimization […]
Section 11. (a) The adoption of a management plan under section twelve, the adoption of regulations for source minimization, volume minimization and storage for decay under section thirteen, the adoption of regulations for the selection of any superior site under section fourteen the adoption of regulations for operator selection under section fifteen and the adoption […]
Section 12. (a) The board shall prepare, adopt by regulation, and implement a management plan to provide for the safe and efficient management of low-level radioactive waste. The primary consideration guiding the development of the management plan shall be the protection of public health, safety and the environment. The management plan shall be reviewed annually […]
Section 13. The department of public health, after consultation with the board, shall establish a program for low-level radioactive waste source minimization, volume minimization and storage for decay by generators. Said department shall adopt regulations necessary to implement such program consistent with the protection of public health, safety and the environment and with the promotion […]
Section 14. (a) The department of environmental protection shall adopt regulations establishing criteria for the selection of any superior site, guidelines for their application, procedures for the conduct of site selection and plans for the creation within said department of a statewide resource center for the continued collection of data pertaining to site selection. Such […]
Section 15. The board shall adopt regulations governing the selection of operators. Such regulations shall include financial, technical and management criteria and shall establish procedures adequate to determine that the operator possesses sufficient reliability, expertise, and competence to operate a facility so as to protect public health and the environment. Such determination shall be based, […]
Section 16. (a) The department of public health shall adopt regulations for the licensing, development, operation, closure, post-closure observation and maintenance, and institutional control of facilities in accordance with the procedure established in this section. Such regulations shall, at a minimum, be compatible with the federal regulatory program established pursuant to the Atomic Energy Act, […]
Section 17. (a) The board shall initiate the site selection process established in sections eighteen to twenty-three, inclusive, if it determines, by a two-thirds vote of its members, that it is necessary and appropriate to proceed with site selection. Such vote may be taken only if: (1) the board has adopted a low-level radioactive waste […]
Section 18. The selection of any superior site shall be conducted in accordance with sections nineteen to twenty-four, inclusive, which shall be known and may be cited as ”Phase II of the Low–Level Radioactive Waste Management Act,” and in accordance with the regulations adopted under section fourteen. The provisions of such sections and regulations shall […]
Section 19. (a) The site selection process conducted pursuant to sections twenty and twenty-three shall be in accordance with the procedures set forth in this section. The recommendations of the public participation coordinator, made pursuant to section six, shall be implemented to the extent feasible in order to ensure appropriate public participation in the site […]
Section 20. (a) The board shall issue a statewide mapping and screening report using existing data and analysis collected by the statewide resource center established pursuant to section fourteen or obtained by the board as of the date of its vote to initiate site selection. Such report shall identify, and exclude from further consideration in […]
Section 21. (a) Upon issuance of the draft candidate site identification report, the board shall request the chief executive officer of each community in which is located all or part of a candidate site identified in such draft report to take appropriate action to establish a community supervisory committee for such community. Each community supervisory […]
Section 22. (a) Within sixty days of a vote, pursuant to section seventeen, to initiate site selection, and after consultation with the commissioner of capital asset management and maintenance the board shall issue a request for proposals for the development, operation, closure and post-closure observation and maintenance of a facility. The request for proposals shall […]
Section 23. (a) Each community supervisory committee shall assist the board in developing a detailed site characterization plan for a candidate site located within the community and participate throughout the implementation of such detailed site characterization plan. Appropriate board officials and consultants shall meet monthly with each community supervisory committee. Each community supervisory committee shall […]
Section 24. (a) Upon petition by any person aggrieved by an action taken pursuant to sections nineteen, twenty, or twenty-three, made within thirty days after selection of a superior site pursuant to section twenty-three, the commissioner of the department of environmental protection shall commence an adjudicatory proceeding concerning the selection of the site. Such adjudicatory […]
Section 25. The selection of an operator and technology or technologies to be utilized at a facility to be developed at any superior site shall be, conducted in accordance with sections twenty-six to twenty-eight, inclusive, which shall be known and be cited as ”Phase III of the Low–Level Waste Management Act”, and in accordance with […]
Section 26. (a) Upon the expiration of thirty days after the selection of any superior site or, if a petition for an adjudicatory proceeding has been filed pursuant to section twenty-four, upon a final decision of the commissioner of the department of environmental protection approving the site selection, the board shall request the chief executive […]
Section 27. (a) No sooner than eleven months and no more than one year and two months after the acceptance of the candidate site identification report pursuant to section twenty, the community supervisory committee of each candidate site community shall interview those certified applicants who indicate their willingness to develop and operate a facility at […]
Section 28. (a) Within sixty days of the selection of the operator pursuant to section twenty-seven, the board shall execute a development contract under which such operator shall be obligated to fulfill all of the requirements of the facility approval process established in sections twenty-nine to thirty-four, inclusive, in accordance with the plans submitted by […]
Section 29. Facility approval and licensing shall be conducted in accordance with sections thirty to thirty-four, inclusive, which shall be known and be cited as ”Phase IV of the Low–Level Radioactive Waste Management Act”, and in accordance with the regulations adopted under section sixteen. The provisions of such sections and regulations shall be implemented so […]
