Final Statement of Reasons

FINAL Stateme= nt of Reasons

No changes to the= Initial Statement of Reasons (ISR) were made.&nbs= p; All content of the ISR are hereby incorporated into the Final State= ment of Reasons.

Incorporation by Reference: Federal provisions incorporated by reference in section 30195.1 contain extensive tables and procedures for ensuring surety instrument integrity making it cumbersome, duly expensive and impractical to publish the documents in the California Code of Regulations. Further, the documents are readily available from federal sources as identified in second Note to section 30195.1.

COMMENT RECEIV= ED DURING THE PERIOD PROPOSED TEXT WAS AVAILABLE TO THE PUBLIC.

This regulation (DP= H-06-018) was made available to the public from August 26, 2008 and ended at 5:00 p.= m. on October 24, 2008. A request = for a public hearing was not received and, thus, no public hearing was held. The written proceeding produced no comments.

ALTERNATIVES DETERMINATION

The Department has determined that, because the radiation control program must maintain compatibility with the regulations of the United States Atomic Energy Commission, the predecessor to the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission (Health &am= p; Saf. Code, § 115230), and according to the agreement, the state is to= use its "best efforts to maintain continuing compatibility between its pr= ogram and the program of the [United States Atomic Energy] Commission for the regulation of like materials..." (Health & Saf. Code, § 1152= 35, art. V) no alternative considered by the Department would= be more effective in carrying out the purpose for which the regulation is pro= posed or would be as effective and less burdensome to affected private persons t= han the proposed regulation.

IMPOSITION OF = LOCAL MANDATE

The Department has determined that the proposed regulations do not impose a lo= cal mandate.