Added by Stats. 1995, Ch. 415, Sec. 6. Effective January 1, 1996.
This chapter shall be known, and may be cited, as the Radiation Control Law.
Article 1 - General
California Health and Safety Code — §§ 114960-114985
Sections (6)
Added by Stats. 1995, Ch. 415, Sec. 6. Effective January 1, 1996.
It is the policy of the State of California, in furtherance of its responsibility to protect the public health and safety, to institute and maintain a regulatory program for sources of ionizing radiation so as to provide for:
(a)compatibility with the standards and regulatory programs of the federal government, (b) an integrated effective system of regulation within the State, and (c) a system consonant insofar as possible with those of other states.
Added by Stats. 1995, Ch. 415, Sec. 6. Effective January 1, 1996.
It is the purpose of this chapter to effectuate the policies set forth in Section 114965 by providing for programs to:
(a)Effectively regulate sources of ionizing radiation for the protection of the occupational and public health and safety.
(b)Promote an orderly regulatory pattern within the State, among the states, and between the federal government and the State, and facilitate intergovernmental co-operation with respect to use
and regulation of sources of ionizing radiation to the end that duplication of regulation may be minimized.
(c)Establish procedures for assumption and performance of certain regulatory responsibilities with respect to byproduct, source, and special nuclear materials.
(d)Permit maximum utilization of sources of ionizing radiation consistent with the health and safety of the public.
Added by Stats. 1995, Ch. 415, Sec. 6. Effective January 1, 1996.
Rules and regulations adopted under this chapter shall be adopted in accordance with Chapter 3.5 (commencing with Section 11340) of Part 1 of Division 3 of Title 2 of the Government Code, and Sections 25733 and 114920 of this code.
Amended by Stats. 2009, Ch. 434, Sec. 4. (AB 356) Effective January 1, 2010.
The Radiation Control Fund is hereby created as a special fund in the State Treasury. All moneys, including fees, penalties, interest earned, and fines, collected under Sections 107100, 107160, 114872, 115045, 115065, and 115080, Article 5.5 (commencing with Section 107115) of Chapter 4 of Part 1, and the regulations adopted pursuant to those sections, shall be deposited in the Radiation Control Fund to cover the costs related
to the enforcement of this chapter, including, but not limited to, implementation of Section 114872, Section 115000, Article 6 (commencing with Section 107150) of Chapter 4 of Part 1, and the Radiologic Technology Act (Section 27), and Article 5.5 (commencing with Section 107115) of Chapter 4 of Part 1, and shall be available for expenditure by the department only upon appropriation by the Legislature. In addition to any moneys collected by, or on behalf of, the department for deposit in the Radiation Control Fund, all interest earned by the Radiation Control Fund shall be deposited in the Radiation Control Fund.
Added by Stats. 1995, Ch. 415, Sec. 6. Effective January 1, 1996.
As used in this chapter:
(a)“Secretary” means the Secretary of the Resources Agency.
(b)“Ionizing radiation” means gamma rays and X-rays; alpha and beta particles, high-speed electrons, neutrons, protons, and other nuclear particles; but not sound or radio waves, or visible, infrared, or ultraviolet light.
(c)“Person” means any individual, corporation, partnership,
limited liability company, firm, association, trust, estate, public or private institution, group, agency, political subdivision of this state, any other state or political subdivision or agency thereof, and any legal successor, representative, agent, or agency of the foregoing, other than the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the United States Department of Energy, or any successor thereto, and other than federal government agencies licensed by the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission, under prime contract to the United States Department of Energy, or any successor thereto.
(d)“Byproduct material” means any radioactive material, except special nuclear material, yielded in, or made radioactive by exposure to the radiation incident to, the process of producing or utilizing special nuclear material.
(e)“Source material” means (1) uranium, thorium, or any
other material which the department declares by rule to be source material after the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission, or any successor thereto, has determined the material to be such; or (2) ores containing one or more of the foregoing materials, in such concentration as the department declares by rule to be source material after the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission, or any successor thereto, has determined the material in such concentration to be source material.
(f)“Special nuclear material” means (1) plutonium, uranium 233, uranium enriched in the isotope 233 or in the isotope 235, and any other material which the department declares by rule to be special nuclear material after the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission, or any successor thereto, has determined the material to be such, but does not include source material; or (2) any material artificially enriched by any of the foregoing, but does not include
source material.
(g)“General license” means a license, pursuant to regulations promulgated by the department, effective without the filing of an application, to transfer, acquire, own, possess or use quantities of, or devices or equipment utilizing, byproduct, source, or special nuclear materials or other radioactive material occurring naturally or produced artificially.
(h)“Specific license” means a license, issued after application, to use, manufacture, produce, transfer, receive, acquire, own, or possess quantities of, or devices or equipment utilizing, byproduct, source, or special nuclear materials or other radioactive material occurring naturally or produced artificially.
(i)“Registration” means the reporting of possession of a source of radiation and the furnishing of information with respect thereto,
in accordance with subdivision (b) of Section 115060.
(j)“Department” means the State Department of Health Services.
(k)“Director” means the State Director of Health Services.
( l) “Federal research and development activity” means any activity of the Secretary of Energy conducted at any research facility owned or operated by the United States Department of Energy.
(m)“Low-level waste” means radioactive waste not classified as high-level radioactive waste, transuranic waste, spent nuclear fuel, or the byproduct material defined in Section 11(e)(2) of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 (42 U.S.C. Sec. 2014 (e)(2)). For purposes of this subdivision, the following definitions shall apply:
(1)“High-level radioactive waste” means either of the following:
(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 this liquid waste that contains fission products in sufficient concentrations.
(B)Other highly radioactive material that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, consistent with existing law, determines by rule requires permanent isolation.
(2)“Spent nuclear fuel” means fuel that has been withdrawn from a nuclear reactor following irradiation, the constituent elements of which have not been separated by reprocessing.
(3)“Transuranic waste” means any waste containing more than 100
nanocuries of alpha emitting transuranic nuclides with half-life greater than five years per gram of waste material.
(n)“Mammogram” means an X-ray image of the human breast.
(o)“Mammography” means the procedure for creating a mammogram.
(p)“Mammography quality assurance” means the detection of a change in X-ray and ancillary equipment that adversely affects the quality of films and the glandular radiation dose, and the correction of this change.
(q)“Mammogram certification” means a certification, issued by the department after registration, that the equipment dedicated to or used for mammography meets the standards prescribed pursuant to this chapter.