General Laws of Massachusetts - Chapter 111H Massachusetts Low-level Radioactive Waste
Management Act
- Massachusetts General Laws - Definitions - Chapter 111H, Section 1
As used in this chapter, the following words shall, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise, have the following meanings:— “Affected community”, a community, other than...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 2002, 184, Sec. 92 - Chapter 111H, Section 2 3
Repealed, 2002, 184, Sec.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Powers and duties of board; acceptance of donations, loans or grants - Chapter 111H, Section 4
(a) The board shall have the following powers and duties: (1) to take any action authorized by this chapter either directly or through, or by...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Low Level Radioactive Waste Management Fund; assessments - Chapter 111H, Section 4A
(a) There is hereby established on the books of the commonwealth a separate fund, to be known as the Low Level Radioactive Waste Management Fund....
- Massachusetts General Laws - Violations of Sec. 4A; civil penalties - Chapter 111H, Section 4B
(a) If the board finds, after notice of any violation of section four A and an opportunity for a hearing have been provided, that any...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 2002, 184, Sec. 92A - Chapter 111H, Section 5
Repealed, 2002, 184, Sec.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Public participation coordinator; duties - Chapter 111H, Section 6
The executive director, after an open and competitive selection process, shall appoint a full-time public participation coordinator based on demonstrated competence subject to approval by...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Information concerning type, volume, radioactivity, source and characteristics of low-level radioactive waste; inspections; confidentiality - Chapter 111H, Section 7
(a) For the purpose of ensuring the accuracy and completeness of the low-level radioactive waste management plan or of determining compliance with this chapter or...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Issuance of orders; notice and opportunity for hearing; civil penalties; injunctions and actions to compel - Chapter 111H, Section 8
(a) The department of public health may issue orders as are reasonably necessary for the enforcement of the provisions of this chapter. Such orders may...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Management of low-level radioactive waste; liability; damages; funds to satisfy liability - Chapter 111H, Section 9
(a) It shall be the responsibility of the operator to take all appropriate steps to clean up and stabilize the facility and to contain migration...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Phase I of the Low-Level Radioactive Waste Management Act; planning - Chapter 111H, 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...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Procedures for adoption of management plan - Chapter 111H, 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...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Preparation, adoption by regulation, and implementation of management plan; contents of plan - Chapter 111H, 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....
- Massachusetts General Laws - Low-level radioactive waste source minimization, volume minimization and storage for decay by generators program; establishment - Chapter 111H, 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...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Site selection criteria and application guidelines; adoption of regulations - Chapter 111H, 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...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Selection of operators; adoption of regulations - Chapter 111H, 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...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Licensing, development, operation, closure, post-closure observation and maintenance, and institutional control of facilities; adoption of regulations - Chapter 111H, 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...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Initiation of site selection process; board vote; conditions - Chapter 111H, 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...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Phase II of the Low-Level Radioactive Waste Management Act; implementation for site selection process - Chapter 111H, 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...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Site selection process; procedures - Chapter 111H, 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...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Site selection process; issuance of required reports; public meetings; acquisition of property interest in candidate sites - Chapter 111H, 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...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Community supervisory committees; establishment - Chapter 111H, 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...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Requests for proposals for development, operation and closure of a facility; investigation and certification of applicants; contract - Chapter 111H, 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...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Detailed site characterization plan for candidate sites; public review and comment; selection of superior site - Chapter 111H, 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...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Petition by aggrieved person; adjudicatory proceeding - Chapter 111H, 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...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Phase III of the Low-Level Waste Management Act; selection of operator and technology - Chapter 111H, 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...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Community supervisory committee representatives, appointment; site community field offices, establishment - Chapter 111H, 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...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Certified applicant interviews; selection of operator of superior site facility - Chapter 111H, 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...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Execution of development contract - Chapter 111H, 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...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Phase IV of the Low-Level Radioactive Waste Management Act; facility approval and licensing - Chapter 111H, 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...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Notice of intent to apply for facility license; environmental impact report - Chapter 111H, Section 30
(a) Except as otherwise provided in this section, the development, operation, closure, post-closure observation and maintenance and institutional control of a facility at any superior...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Facility license application; public comment period; preparation of draft license or draft denial; final decision - Chapter 111H, Section 31
(a) Upon the filing with the secretary of the executive office of environmental affairs of a notification pursuant to section thirty of intent to apply...
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- Massachusetts General Laws - Negotiation of comprehensive operating contract; contents - Chapter 111H, Section 33
(a) Upon issuance of a facility license pursuant to section thirty-one, the board, after consultation with the community supervisory committee of each site community, and...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Community compensation - Chapter 111H, Section 34
Any community compensation to be provided for site communities pursuant to the comprehensive operating contract shall be divided among such communities in the proportion that...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Phase V of the Low-Level Radioactive Waste Management Act; facility development, operation, and closure - Chapter 111H, Section 35
Facility development, operation, closure, and post-closure observation and maintenance shall be conducted in accordance with sections thirty-six to forty-four, inclusive, shall be known and be...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Comprehensive environmental monitoring program; establishment - Chapter 111H, Section 36
(a) Within thirty days of the issuance of a facility license pursuant to section thirty-one; the department of public health shall, after consultation with the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Commencement of facility construction - Chapter 111H, Section 37
Upon the determination of the department of public health that the environmental monitoring program or detailed site characterization of the superior site has yielded representative...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Payment by operator equal to expected annual operating budget; proposed fees and waste acceptance criteria schedule - Chapter 111H, Section 38
(a) Upon the issuance of a facility license pursuant to section thirty-one, and annually thereafter, until the facility license is transferred to the board pursuant...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Determination of operator’s compliance with comprehensive operating contract; notice to generators - Chapter 111H, Section 39
(a) Upon written notification by the operator that the facility is ready to accept low-level radioactive waste, and upon written notification by the department of...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Operation of facility; temporary or permanent closure; inspection report - Chapter 111H, Section 40
(a) The facility shall be operated in accordance with this section and with regulations adopted under section sixteen. All shipments of low-level radioactive waste shall,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Contingent liability account; institutional control account - Chapter 111H, Section 41
(a) There is hereby established within the Low-Level Radioactive Waste Trust Fund, a contingent liability account and the institutional control account. The board shall determine...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Administration of the Low-Level Radioactive Waste Trust Fund - Chapter 111H, Section 42
The Low-Level Radioactive Waste Trust Fund, established by section thirty-five H of chapter ten, shall be administered by the board, without liability on the part...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Facility closure plan - Chapter 111H, Section 43
(a) At least one year prior to the date scheduled for facility closure in the facility closure plan required to be prepared and maintained by...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Active observation and maintenance of facility - Chapter 111H, Section 44
Upon completion of site closure activities, the operator shall, for no less than five years thereafter, engage in active observation and maintenance of the facility...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Phase VI of the Low-Level Radioactive Waste Management Act; institutional control of facility - Chapter 111H, Section 45
Institutional control of a facility shall be conducted, subject to appropriation, in accordance with sections forty-six and forty-seven, which shall be known and may be...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Transfer of facility license from operator - Chapter 111H, Section 46
(a) No sooner than five years after the implementation of the site closure plan pursuant to section forty-four, the board shall accept transfer of the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Institutional control of facility; annual report; public meetings - Chapter 111H, Section 47
The board shall be responsible for institutional control of the facility in accordance with the program approved by the department of public health and regulations...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Statutes not applicable - Chapter 111H, Section 48
The selection of an operator and the development of a facility pursuant to this chapter shall, for the purposes of section forty-two B of chapter...
Last modified: September 11, 2015