Maryland § 8-101

§ 8-101.

    (a)    In this title the following words have the meanings indicated.

    (b)    “Board” means the Radiation Control Advisory Board.

    (c)    “Emergency” means a sudden and unforeseen condition of such public gravity and urgency that it requires immediate response to protect the public health and welfare.

    (d)    “Emergency planning zone” means a plume exposure pathway emergency planning zone, as described in 10 C.F.R. § 50.47(c)(2).

    (e)    “General license” means a license that, under the rules and regulations adopted by the Department under this title, is effective without the filing of an application by the licensee.

    (f)    “Nuclear incident” means any occurrence, including an extraordinary nuclear occurrence, or series of occurrences at a nuclear power plant with the potential for causing bodily injury, sickness, disease, death, loss of or damage to property, or loss of use of property resulting from the radioactive, toxic, explosive, or other hazardous properties of the radioactive material used by a nuclear power plant or stored on its property.

    (g)    (1)    “Nuclear power plant” means any facility capable of producing electricity using nuclear energy:

            (i)    1.    That is located in the State; or

                2.    With an emergency planning zone that includes any area of the State; and

            (ii)    For which the Department participates in planning and response activities related to the facility.

        (2)    “Nuclear power plant” includes a facility with one or more nuclear power reactors that:

            (i)    Has spent nuclear fuel stored onsite;

            (ii)    Has not been fully dismantled and decommissioned in accordance with applicable federal law and regulations; or

            (iii)    Has not been granted license termination by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

    (h)    “Nuclear Regulatory Commission” means the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission or any successor entity responsible for federal regulation of nuclear energy.

    (i)    “Off–site response organization” means a state, local, or tribal governmental organization responsible for carrying out emergency response functions during a nuclear incident.

    (j)    “Person” includes any public or municipal corporation and any agency, bureau, department, or instrumentality of State or local government and, to the extent authorized by federal law, federal government.

    (k)    “Radiation” means:

        (1)    Ionizing radiation, including gamma rays, X–rays, alpha particles, beta particles, neutrons, high speed electrons, high speed protons, and any other atomic or nuclear particles or rays;

        (2)    Any electromagnetic radiation that can be generated during the operation of a manufactured device that has an electronic circuit; or

        (3)    Any sonic, ultrasonic, or infrasonic waves that are emitted as a result of the operation, in a manufactured device, of an electronic circuit that can generate a physical field of radiation.

    (l)    “Specific license” means a license that, under the rules and regulations adopted by the Department under this title, is effective only after the applicant files an application and the Department approves the application.