Definitions.

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As used in sections 24-60-2205 to 24-60-2212, unless the context otherwise requires:

  1. "Department" means the department of public health and environment.

  2. "Facility" means a low-level radioactive waste facility capable of serving as a regional disposal or management site for low-level radioactive waste and which complies with the provisions of the "Rocky Mountain Low-level Radioactive Waste Compact" set forth in section 24-60-2202.

  3. "Low-level radioactive waste" means radioactive waste, other than:

  1. Waste generated as a result of defense activities of the federal government or federalresearch and development activities;

  2. High-level waste such as irradiated reactor fuel, liquid waste from reprocessing irradiated reactor fuel, or solids into which any such liquid waste has been converted;

  3. Waste material containing transuranic elements with contamination levels greater than ten nanocuries per gram of waste material;

  4. Byproduct material as defined in Section 11 e. (2) of the "Atomic Energy Act of1954", as amended on November 8, 1978; or

  5. Wastes from mining, milling, smelting, or similar processing of ores and mineralbearing material primarily for minerals other than radium.

Source: L. 82: Entire part added, p. 403, § 1, effective July 1. L. 94: (1) amended, p. 2740, § 376, effective July 1.

Cross references: For the definition of "byproduct material" as defined in the federal "Atomic Energy Act of 1954", see 42 U.S.C. 2014 (e)(2).


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