KRS § 211.862 — KY Code / Title XVIII / Chapter 211 / Section 211.862
211.862 Definitions for KRS 211.861 to 211.869
Status: in_force

211.862 Definitions for KRS 211.861 to 211.869.

As used in KRS 211.861 to 211.869, unless the compact requires otherwise:

(1) "Commission" means the Central Midwest Interstate Low-Level Radioactive

Waste Commission;

(2) "Cabinet" means the Cabinet for Health and Family Services;

(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 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 material as defined in Section 11e(2) of the Federal Atomic

Energy Act. This definition shall apply regardless of any declaration by the

federal government or any 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 any of the primordial

radionuclides or radioactivity present in soils, rocks, and materials, that are not

concentrated or disturbed as a result of human activities;

(9) "Person" means any individual, corporation, business enterprise, or other legal

entity, public or private, and any legal successor, representative, agent or

agency of 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 host state by the commission;

(12) "Storage" means the temporary holding of radioactive material for treatment or

disposal;

(13) "Technologically enhanced naturally occurring radioactive material" or

"TENORM" means:

(a) Naturally occurring radioactive material with a radionuclide concentration

that has been increased by human activities above levels encountered in

the natural state; or

(b) Naturally occurring radioactive material made more accessible by human

activity.

"TENORM" does not include the natural radioactivity of rocks or soils or source

material, byproduct material, or special nuclear material as defined in 42 U.S.C.

secs. 2011 et seq. and relevant federal regulations implemented by the

Nuclear Regulatory Commission; and

(14) "Treatment" means any method, technique, or process, including storage for

radioactive decay, designed to change the physical, chemical, or biological

characteristics of the radioactive material in order to render the radioactive

material safe for transport or management, amenable to recovery, convertible

to another usable material, or reduced in volume.