As used in sections 24-60-2205 to 24-60-2212, unless the context otherwise requires:
"Department" means the department of public health and environment.
"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.
"Low-level radioactive waste" means radioactive waste, other than:
Waste generated as a result of defense activities of the federal government or federalresearch and development activities;
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;
Waste material containing transuranic elements with contamination levels greater than ten nanocuries per gram of waste material;
Byproduct material as defined in Section 11 e. (2) of the "Atomic Energy Act of1954", as amended on November 8, 1978; or
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).