BILL NUMBER: SB 1456	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator Kuehl

                        FEBRUARY 19, 2004

   An act to add Section 114716 to the Health and Safety Code,
relating to radiation.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 1456, as introduced, Kuehl.  Radiation: contamination.
   The existing Radiation Control Law requires the State Department
of Health Services, among other things, to issue licenses, and
prohibits the state department from issuing a license to receive
radioactive material for disposal on land unless specified
requirements are satisfied.  Existing law prohibits any person from
burying, throwing away, or disposing of radioactive waste except in a
manner that will result in no significant radioactive contamination
of the environment.
   This bill would prohibit an owner or operator of the Santa Susana
Field Laboratory in Ventura County from using, selling, transferring,
or leasing any part of that site for residential use unless the
federal Environmental Protection Agency finds that the radioactive
contamination at the Santa Susana Field Laboratory has been surveyed
and remediated in accordance with the federal Comprehensive
Environment Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980.
   Vote:  majority.  Appropriation:  no.  Fiscal committee:  no.
State-mandated local program:  no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:


  SECTION 1.  Section 114716 is added to the Health and Safety Code,
to read:
   114716.  An owner or operator of the site known as the Santa
Susana Field Laboratory, consisting of all parcels of land that
comprise the Santa Susana Field Laboratory in Ventura County, or any
part thereof, may not use, sell, transfer, or lease any part of the
site for residential use unless the federal Environmental Protection
Agency finds, in writing, that the radioactive contamination at the
Santa Susana Field Laboratory has been surveyed and remediated in
accordance with the standards, guidance, procedures, and practices
established by the Environmental Protection Agency for the
remediation of sites with radioactive contaminants intended for
residential use pursuant to the Comprehensive Environment Response,
Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980, 42 U.S.C. Sec. 9601 et seq.

  SEC. 2.  The Legislature finds and declares that a special law is
necessary and that a general law cannot be made applicable within the
meaning of Section 16 of Article IV of the California Constitution
because of the unique legal status and circumstances regarding
radioactivity at the Santa Susana Field Laboratory in Ventura County.