SECTIONS 114677 - California Statutes

HEALTH AND SAFETY CODE

SECTION 114677

114677. (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.