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211.862 Definitions for KRS 211.861 to 211.869.
As used in KRS 211.861 to 211.869, unless the compact requires otherwise: <br>(1) "Commission" means the Central Midwest Interstate Low-Level Radioactive Waste
Commission;
(2) "Cabinet" means the Cabinet for Health and Family Services; <br>(3) "Compact" means the Central Midwest Interstate Low-Level Radioactive Waste
Compact;
(4) "Disposal" means the isolation of waste from the biosphere in a permanent facility
designed for that purpose;
(5) "Facility" means a parcel of land or site, together with the structures, equipment,
and improvements on, or appurtenant to, the land or site, that is used or is being <br>developed for the treatment, storage, or disposal of low-level radioactive waste;
(6) "Low-level radioactive waste" or "waste" means radioactive waste not classified as
high-level radioactive waste, transuranic waste, spent nuclear fuel, or by-product <br>material as defined in Section 11e(2) of the Federal Atomic Energy Act. This <br>definition shall apply regardless of any declaration by the federal government or any <br>state that any radioactive material is exempt from any regulatory control;
(7) "Management plan" means the plan adopted by the commission for the storage,
transportation, treatment, and disposal of waste within the region;
(8) "Naturally-occurring radioactive material" (NORM) means naturally occurring
materials not regulated under the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended, whose <br>radionuclide concentrations have been increased by or as a result of human <br>practices. Naturally occurring radioactive material does not include the natural <br>radioactivity of rocks or soils, or background radiation, but instead refers to <br>materials whose radioactivity is technologically enhanced by controllable practices <br>(or by past human practices);
(9) "Person" means any individual, corporation, business enterprise, or other legal
entity, public or private, and any legal successor, representative, agent or agency of <br>that individual, corporation, business enterprise, or legal entity;
(10) "Region" means the geographical area of the state of Illinois and the
Commonwealth of Kentucky;
(11) "Regional facility" means any facility as defined in this section that is located in
Kentucky, and established by Kentucky pursuant to designation of Kentucky as a <br>host state by the commission;
(12) "Storage" means the temporary holding of radioactive material for treatment or
disposal; and
(13) "Treatment" means any method, technique, or process, including storage for
radioactive decay, designed to change the physical, chemical, or biological <br>characteristics of the radioactive material in order to render the radioactive material <br>safe for transport or management, amenable to recovery, convertible to another <br>usable material, or reduced in volume.
Effective: June 20, 2005
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History: Amended 2005 Ky. Acts ch. 99, sec. 385, effective June 20, 2005. -- Created
1998 Ky. Acts ch. 46, sec. 2, effective July 15, 1998.
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