AB 452

This bill streamlines California's regulation of radioactive materials by automatically adopting federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) regulations as state law, specifically those regulations in effect as of January 1, 2014, and future federal regulations that are required for states participating in the NRC's Agreement State program. The bill ensures California maintains its authority to regulate certain radioactive materials under federal agreement while preventing regulatory gaps or conflicts, as the state must adopt these federal regulations in an "essentially identical manner" to maintain its Agreement State status. By incorporating these federal regulations into state law under the Radiation Control Law, violations become state misdemeanors, though the bill also clarifies that the state cannot regulate areas that federal law reserves exclusively to the NRC.