Colorado § 24-60-2204 - Definitions.
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§ 24-60-2204. Definitions.
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:
(a) Waste generated as a result of defense activities of the federal government or federal research and development activities;
(b) 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;
(c) Waste material containing transuranic elements with contamination levels greater than ten nanocuries per gram of waste material;
(d) Byproduct material as defined in Section 11 e. (2) of the "Atomic Energy Act of 1954", as amended on November 8, 1978; or
(e) Wastes from mining, milling, smelting, or similar processing of ores and mineral-bearing 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).
ANNOTATION
Since Colorado department of health regulation, part 14, did not apply to licensing of materials that were within federal Atomic Energy Act definition of "by-product material", and the Colorado department of health expressly excluded low-level radioactive waste in an amended license, the department was not subject to the part 14 requirements in granting an amended license. WCC v. Umetco Minerals, 919 P.2d 887 (Colo. App. 1996).
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