{"data":{"id":"us-ca/hsc-114677","jurisdiction":"us-ca","citation":"HSC § 114677","heading":"","body":"(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.\n(b) The responsibilities of local government within an emergency planning zone include, but are not limited to, all of the following:\n(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.\n(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.\n(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.\n(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.\n(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.","path":["Health and Safety Code - HSC","DIVISION 104. ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH [106500. - 119406.]","PART 9. RADIATION [114650. - 115342.]","CHAPTER 4. The Radiation Protection Act of 1999 [114650. - 114685.]","ARTICLE 4. Responsibilities of Local Government  [114677. - 114677.]"],"source_url":"https://downloads.leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/pubinfo_2025.zip","current_through":"2026-09-13","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T05:56:33Z","sha256":"6c18c12be9337647f16349342a900adbc1a355a06c98fce8fa8edc287b522ceb","source_id":"us-ca","stale":false,"prev":"us-ca/hsc-114662","next":"us-ca/hsc-114680"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}