§2021b Definitions

Summary

Defines key words used in the rules about low-level radioactive waste and interstate compacts. The list explains who and what the rules talk about. An agreement State is a State that has a formal pact with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and can regulate low‑level radioactive waste under that pact. Allocation is assigning a specific amount of disposal space to a commercial nuclear power reactor that a sited State must provide under these rules. A commercial nuclear power reactor is a civilian light‑water reactor unit that must be licensed under sections 2133 or 2134(b). A compact is an agreement between two or more States under these sections. A compact commission is the regional body a compact creates to run the compact. A compact region is the area made up of the States in a compact. Disposal means permanently isolating low‑level radioactive waste under NRC rules or an agreement State’s rules. Generate means to produce low‑level radioactive 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 does not include the byproduct material defined in paragraphs (3) and (4) of section 2014(e). A non‑sited compact region is a compact region that does not have one of the named disposal sites. A regional disposal facility is a non‑Federal disposal site that was operating on January 1, 1985, or that was later set up and run under a compact. Secretary means the Secretary of Energy. State means any State of the United States, the District of Columbia, or the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.