2007 California Health and Safety Code Article 4. Responsibilities Of Local Government

CA Codes (hsc: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.