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Chapter 70.98 RCW: NUCLEAR ENERGY AND RADIATION
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Chapter 70.98 RCW
70.98.010 Declaration of policy.
70.98.020 Purpose.
70.98.030 Definitions.
70.98.050 State radiation control agency.
70.98.080 Rules and regulations—Licensing requirements and procedure—Notice of license application—Objections—Notice upon granting of license—Registration of sources of ionizing radiation—Exemptions from registration or licensing.
70.98.085 User permit system—Fees—Indemnify and hold state harmless—Adoption of rules.
70.98.090 Inspection.
70.98.095 Financial assurance—Noncompliance.
70.98.098 Financial assurance—Generally.
70.98.100 Records.
70.98.110 Federal-state agreements—Authorized—Effect as to federal licenses.
70.98.120 Inspection agreements and training programs.
70.98.122 Department of ecology to seek federal funding for environmental radiation monitoring.
70.98.125 Federal assistance to be sought for high-level radioactive waste program.
70.98.130 Administrative procedure.
70.98.140 Injunction proceedings.
70.98.150 Prohibited uses.
70.98.160 Impounding of materials.
70.98.170 Prohibition—Fluoroscopic X-ray shoefitting devices.
70.98.180 Exemptions.
70.98.190 Professional uses.
70.98.200 Penalties.
70.98.220 Adoption of rules for administering site use permit program.
70.98.910 Effective date—1961 c 207.
70.98.920 Section headings not part of law.
Nuclear, thermal power facilities, joint city, public utility district, electrical companies development: Chapter 54.44 RCW.
Radioactive and hazardous waste emergency response programs, state coordinator: RCW 38.52.030.
Radioactive waste act: Chapter 43.200 RCW.
RCW 70.98.010
It is the policy of the state of Washington in furtherance of its responsibility to protect the public health and safety and to encourage, insofar as consistent with this responsibility, the industrial and economic growth of the state and to institute and maintain a regulatory and inspection program for sources and uses of ionizing radiation so as to provide for (1) compatibility with the standards and regulatory programs of the federal government, (2) a single, effective system of regulation within the state, and (3) a system consonant insofar as possible with those of other states.
[1975-'76 2nd ex.s. c 108 § 12; 1961 c 207 § 1.]
RCW 70.98.020
It is the purpose of this chapter to effectuate the policies set forth in RCW 70.98.010 as now or hereafter amended by providing for:
(1) A program of effective regulation of sources of ionizing radiation for the protection of the occupational and public health and safety;
(3) A program to establish procedures for assumption and performance of certain regulatory responsibilities with respect to by-product, source, and special nuclear materials.
[1975-'76 2nd ex.s. c 108 § 13; 1965 c 88 § 1; 1961 c 207 § 2.]
RCW 70.98.080
Rules and regulations—Licensing requirements and procedure—Notice of license application—Objections—Notice upon granting of license—Registration of sources of ionizing radiation—Exemptions from registration or licensing.
(1) The agency shall provide by rule or regulation for general or specific licensing of by-product, source, special nuclear materials, or devices or equipment utilizing such materials, or other radioactive material occurring naturally or produced artificially. Such rule or regulation shall provide for amendment, suspension, or revocation of licenses. Such rule or regulation shall provide that:
(a) Each application for a specific license shall be in writing and shall state such information as the agency, by rule or regulation, may determine to be necessary to decide the technical, insurance, and financial qualifications, or any other qualification of the applicant as the agency may deem reasonable and necessary to protect the occupational and public health and safety. The agency may at any time after the filing of the application, and before the expiration of the license, require further written statements and shall make such inspections as the agency deems necessary in order to determine whether the license should be granted or denied or whether the license should be modified, suspended, or revoked. In no event shall the agency grant a specific license to any applicant who has never possessed a specific license issued by a recognized state or federal authority until the agency has conducted an inspection which insures that the applicant can meet the rules, regulations and standards adopted pursuant to this chapter. All applications and statements shall be signed by the applicant or licensee. The agency may require any applications or statements to be made under oath or affirmation;
(b) Each license shall be in such form and contain such terms and conditions as the agency may by rule or regulation prescribe;
(c) No license issued under the authority of this chapter and no right to possess or utilize sources of ionizing radiation granted by any license shall be assigned or in any manner disposed of; and
(d) The terms and conditions of all licenses shall be subject to amendment, revision, or modification by rules, regulations or orders issued in accordance with the provisions of this chapter.
(2) Before the agency issues a license to an applicant under this section, it shall give notice of such application to the chief executive officer of the incorporated city or town, if the application is for a license within an incorporated city or town, or to the county legislative authority, if the application is for a license outside the boundaries of incorporated cities or towns. The incorporated city or town, through the official or employee selected by it, or the county legislative authority or the official or employee selected by it, shall have the right to file with the agency within twenty days after date of transmittal of such notice, written objections against the applicant or against the activity for which the license is sought, and shall include with such objections a statement of all facts upon which such objections are based, and in case written objections are filed, may request and the agency may in its discretion hold a formal hearing under chapter 34.05 RCW. Upon the granting of a license under this section the agency shall send a duplicate of the license or written notification to the chief executive officer of the incorporated city or town in which the license is granted, or to the county legislative authority if the license is granted outside the boundaries of incorporated cities or towns.
This subsection shall not apply to activities conducted within the boundaries of the Hanford reservation.
(3) The agency may require registration of all sources of ionizing radiation.
(4) The agency may exempt certain sources of ionizing radiation or kinds of uses or users from the registration or licensing requirements set forth in this section when the agency makes a finding after approval of the technical advisory board that the exemption of such sources of ionizing radiation or kinds of uses or users will not constitute a significant risk to the health and safety of the public.
(5) In promulgating rules and regulations pursuant to this chapter the agency shall, insofar as practical, strive to avoid requiring dual licensing, and shall provide for such recognition of other state or federal licenses as the agency shall deem desirable, subject to such registration requirements as the agency may prescribe.
[ 1984 c 96 § 1; 1965 c 88 § 5; 1961 c 207 § 8.]
RCW 70.98.090
The agency or its duly authorized representative shall have the power to enter at all reasonable times upon any private or public property for the purpose of determining whether or not there is compliance with or violation of the provisions of this chapter and rules and regulations issued thereunder.
[ 1985 c 372 § 2; 1961 c 207 § 9.]
RCW 70.98.098
Financial assurance—Generally.
(1) In making the determination of the appropriate level of financial assurance, the secretary shall consider: (a) Any report prepared by the department of ecology pursuant to RCW 43.200.200; (b) the potential cost of decontamination, treatment, disposal, decommissioning, and cleanup of facilities or equipment; (c) federal cleanup and decommissioning requirements; and (d) the legal defense cost, if any, that might be paid from the required financial assurance.
(2) The secretary may establish different levels of required financial assurance for various classes of permit or license holders.
(3) The secretary shall establish by rule the instruments or mechanisms by which a person may demonstrate financial assurance as required by RCW 70.98.095.
(4) To the extent that money in the site closure account together with the amount of money identified for repayment to the site closure account pursuant to RCW 43.200.080 equals or exceeds the cost estimate approved by the department of health for closure and decommissioning of the commercial low-level radioactive waste disposal facility, the money in the site closure account together with the amount of money identified for repayment to the site closure account shall constitute adequate financial assurance for purposes of the department of health financial assurance requirements under RCW 70.98.095.
[ 2012 c 19 § 11; 2003 1st sp.s. c 21 § 2; 1992 c 61 § 4; 1990 c 82 § 3.]
RCW 70.98.100
(1) The agency shall require each person who possesses or uses a source of ionizing radiation to maintain necessary records relating to its receipt, use, storage, transfer, or disposal and such other records as the agency may require which will permit the determination of the extent of occupational and public exposure from the radiation source. Copies of these records shall be submitted to the agency on request. These requirements are subject to such exemptions as may be provided by rules.
(2) The agency may by rule and regulation establish standards requiring that personnel monitoring be provided for any employee potentially exposed to ionizing radiation and may provide for the reporting to any employee of his or her radiation exposure record.
[ 2012 c 117 § 415; 1961 c 207 § 10.]
RCW 70.98.110
Federal-state agreements—Authorized—Effect as to federal licenses.
(1) The governor, on behalf of this state, is authorized to enter into agreements with the federal government providing for discontinuance of certain of the federal government's responsibilities with respect to sources of ionizing radiation and the assumption thereof by this state pursuant to this chapter.
(2) Any person who, on the effective date of an agreement under subsection (1) above, possesses a license issued by the federal government shall be deemed to possess the same pursuant to a license issued under this chapter which shall expire either ninety days after the receipt from the state radiation control agency of a notice of expiration of such license or on the date of expiration specified in the federal license, whichever is earlier.
[ 1965 c 88 § 6; 1961 c 207 § 11.]
RCW 70.98.120
Inspection agreements and training programs.
(1) The agency is authorized to enter into an agreement or agreements with the federal government, other states, or interstate agencies, whereby this state will perform on a cooperative basis with the federal government, other states, or interstate agencies, inspections or other functions relating to control of sources of ionizing radiation.
(2) The agency may institute training programs for the purpose of qualifying personnel to carry out the provisions of this chapter and may make said personnel available for participation in any program or programs of the federal government, other states, or interstate agencies in furtherance of the purposes of this chapter.
[ 1961 c 207 § 12.]
RCW 70.98.122
Department of ecology to seek federal funding for environmental radiation monitoring.
The department of ecology shall seek federal funding, such as is available under the clean air act (42 U.S.C. Sec. 1857 et seq.) and the nuclear waste policy act (42 U.S.C. Sec. 10101 et seq.) to carry out the purposes of *RCW 70.98.050(4)(c).
[ 1985 c 372 § 3.]
*Reviser's note: "(c)" in this reference has been redesignated "(c)[(e)]" in the published version of RCW 70.98.050.
RCW 70.98.125
Federal assistance to be sought for high-level radioactive waste program.
(1) The agency shall seek federal financial assistance as authorized by the nuclear waste policy act of 1982, P.L. 97-425 section 116(c), for activities related to the high-level radioactive waste program in the state of Washington. The activities for which federal funding is sought shall include, but are not limited to, the development of a radiological baseline for the Hanford reservation; the implementation of a program to monitor ionizing radiation emissions on the Hanford reservation; the collection of statistical data and epidemiological research, where available, on diseases that result from exposure to sources of ionizing radiation on the Hanford reservation.
(2) In the event the federal government refuses to grant financial assistance for the activities under subsection (1) of this section, the agency is directed to investigate potential legal action.
[ 1985 c 383 § 2.]
RCW 70.98.130
(1) In any proceeding under this chapter for the issuance or modification or repeal of rules relating to control of sources of ionizing radiation, the agency shall comply with the requirements of chapter 34.05 RCW, the administrative procedure act.
(2) Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, whenever the agency finds that an emergency exists requiring immediate action to protect the public health, safety, or general welfare, the agency may, in accordance with RCW 34.05.350 without notice or hearing, adopt a rule reciting the existence of such emergency and require that such action be taken as is necessary to meet the emergency. As specified in RCW 34.05.350, such rules are effective immediately.
(3) In any case in which the department denies, modifies, suspends, or revokes a license or permit, RCW 43.70.115 governs notice of the action and provides the right to an adjudicative proceeding to the applicant or licensee or permittee. Such an adjudicative proceeding is governed by chapter 34.05 RCW.
[ 2012 c 19 § 12; 1989 c 175 § 133; 1961 c 207 § 13.]
RCW 70.98.140
Notwithstanding the existence or use of any other remedy, whenever any person has engaged in, or is about to engage in, any acts or practices which constitute or will constitute a violation of any provision of this chapter, or any rule, regulation, or order issued thereunder, the attorney general upon the request of the agency, after notice to such person and opportunity to comply, may make application to the appropriate court for an order enjoining such acts or practices, or for an order directing compliance, and upon a showing by the agency that such person has engaged in, or is about to engage in, any such acts or practices, a permanent or temporary injunction, restraining order, or other order may be granted.
[ 1961 c 207 § 14.]
RCW 70.98.150
It shall be unlawful for any person to use, manufacture, produce, transport, transfer, receive, acquire, own, or possess any source of ionizing radiation unless licensed by or registered with, or exempted by the agency in accordance with the provisions of this chapter.
[ 1965 c 88 § 7; 1961 c 207 § 15.]
RCW 70.98.160
Impounding of materials.
The agency shall have the authority in the event of an emergency to impound or order the impounding of sources of ionizing radiation in the possession of any person who is not equipped to observe or fails to observe the provisions of this chapter or any rules or regulations issued thereunder.
[ 1961 c 207 § 16.]
Prohibition—Fluoroscopic X-ray shoefitting devices.
[ 1973 c 77 § 27; 1961 c 207 § 17.]
*Reviser's note: The term "podiatrist" was changed to "podiatric physician and surgeon" by 1990 c 147.
RCW 70.98.180
This chapter shall not apply to the following sources or conditions:
(1) Radiation machines during process of manufacture, or in storage or transit: PROVIDED, That this exclusion shall not apply to functional testing of such machines.
(2) Any radioactive material while being transported in conformity with regulations adopted by any federal agency having jurisdiction therein, and specifically applicable to the transportation of such radioactive materials.
(3) No exemptions under this section are granted for those quantities or types of activities which do not comply with the established rules and regulations promulgated by the Atomic Energy Commission, or any successor thereto.
[ 1965 c 88 § 8; 1961 c 207 § 18.]
RCW 70.98.190
Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to limit the kind or amount of radiation that may be intentionally applied to a person for diagnostic or therapeutic purposes by or under the immediate direction of a licensed practitioner of the healing arts acting within the scope of his or her professional license.
[ 2012 c 117 § 416; 1961 c 207 § 19.]
RCW 70.98.200
Any person who violates any of the provisions of this chapter or rules, regulations, or orders in effect pursuant thereto shall be guilty of a gross misdemeanor.
[ 1961 c 207 § 20.]
RCW 70.98.220
Adoption of rules for administering site use permit program.
The agency shall adopt rules for administering a site use permit program under RCW 70.98.085.
[ 2012 c 19 § 13.]
RCW 70.98.910
Effective date—1961 c 207.
The provisions of this act relating to the control of by-product, source and special nuclear materials shall become effective on the effective date of the agreement between the federal government and this state as authorized in RCW 70.98.110. All other provisions of this act shall become effective on the 30th day of June, 1961.
[ 1961 c 207 § 23.]
RCW 70.98.920
Section headings not part of law.
[ 1961 c 207 § 25.]