§2021b Definitions

Summary

Sets the meanings of words used later in the rules about low-level radioactive waste. An "agreement State" is a State that made an agreement with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission under section 2021 and can regulate low-level waste disposal under that deal. "Allocation" is a fixed amount of disposal space given to a commercial nuclear power reactor by sited States. "Commercial nuclear power reactor" is a civilian light-water reactor unit that must be licensed under section 2133 or 2134(b). A "compact" is an agreement between two or more States; a "compact commission" is the group that runs that compact; a "compact region" is the group of States in the compact. "Disposal" means permanently isolating low-level radioactive waste under NRC rules or an agreement State’s rules if done there. "Generate" means to produce such waste. "Low-level radioactive waste" means radioactive material that is not high-level waste, spent nuclear fuel, or certain byproduct material (see section 2014(e)(2)) and that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission classifies as low-level waste; it specifically excludes byproduct material defined in paragraphs (3) and (4) of section 2014(e). A "non-sited compact region" has no disposal site. A "regional disposal facility" is a non-Federal disposal site that was operating on January 1, 1985, or set up later under a compact. "Secretary" means the Secretary of Energy. A "sited compact region" has one of the regional facilities at Barnwell, South Carolina; Richland, Washington; or Beatty, Nevada. "State" includes any U.S. State, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico.