Louisiana Administrative Code › Title 33 - ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY › Part XV - Radiation Protection › Chapter 14 - Regulation and Licensing of Naturally Occurring Radioactive Material (NORM) › Section XV-1403 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 6, June 20, 2024
A. In addition to
				the definitions specified in Chapter 1, the following definitions apply.
Advantageous Attribute or Advantageous to the
				  Material or Product
- the radioactivity of the product is necessary to
				  the use of the product.
Beneficiating
- the processing of materials
				  or products for the purpose of altering the chemical or physical properties to
				  improve the quality, purity, or assay of a desired product or material.
Confirmatory Survey
- a survey of
				  potentially contaminated land, equipment, or sites in order to establish, with
				  reasonable certainty, the absence or magnitude of NORM contamination.
Container
- any portable device in which a
				  material is stored, transported, treated, disposed of, or otherwise handled.
				  This does not include tubular goods or drill pipe for labeling purposes under
				  these regulations.
Decontamination
- the cleaning process of
				  removing or reducing residual radioactivity from equipment, buildings,
				  structures, and land owned, possessed, or controlled by other persons to a
				  level that permits release of equipment, buildings, structures, and land for
				  unrestricted use or termination of license.
Disposal
- the discharge, injection, or
				  placing of regulated NORM into or on land so that such material is isolated
				  from the biosphere inhabited by man and containing his food chain.
Equipment
-any apparatus associated with the
				  potential for or actual enhancement of NORM. Examples include, but are not
				  limited to, tubular goods, piping, vessels, wellheads, separators, and
				  condensers.
Equipment
does not include biodegradable
				  material.
Location
- NORM contaminated site(s), such
				  as a commingling facility, a wellhead, a tank battery, any other type of
				  production facility for oil or gas, a warehouse, or other type of NORM storage
				  area for equipment or drums, pipeline, land, or pipeyard. A location may
				  contain several sites.
Naturally Occurring Radioactive Material
				  (NORM)
- any nuclide that is radioactive in its natural physical state
				  (i.e., not man-made), but not including source, byproduct, or special nuclear
				  material.
Nonhazardous Oilfield Waste (NOW)
-a type of
				  exploration and production waste; solid material produced from oil and gas
				  related activities that contain exempt quantities of hazardous components
				  according to the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA).
NORM Waste
-any solid, liquid, or gaseous
				  material or combination of materials, excluding source material, special
				  nuclear material and by-product material, that:
a. in its natural physical state emits
				radiation;
b. is discarded or
				unwanted;
c. prior to treatment or
				processing that reduces the radioactivity concentration, exceeds exemption
				criteria specified in LAC 33:XV.1404.
On-Site Maintenance
- any activity involving
				  a site or equipment that subjects an individual to potential inhalation or
				  ingestion of NORM. This includes, but is not limited to, performing maintenance
				  on vessels, tanks, tubular goods, or water treatment systems, or the clearing
				  of pipe lines to maintain oil and gas production.
Pile
- any non-containerized accumulation of
				  solid, nonflowing NORM waste.
Product
- anything produced, made,
				  manufactured, refined, or beneficiated.
Recycling
- a process by which materials
				  that have served their intended use are collected, separated, or processed and
				  returned to use in the form of raw materials in the production of new products.
				  Recycling shall not include the use of a material in a manner that constitutes
				  disposal.
Site
- any part of a location, land area
				  (e.g., well site, pipeyard, scrapyard, production pit, treater/disposal
				  facility, landfarm, landfill), equipment (each wellhead, each tank, each
				  vessel, each separator, or any other apparatus associated with a process that
				  has technologically enhanced naturally occurring radioactive material) or other
				  appurtenances in a facility that contain technologically enhanced NORM, both
				  active and inactive.
Storage
- the containment of NORM waste in
				  such a manner as not to constitute disposal of NORM waste.
Tank
- a stationary device designed to
				  contain an accumulation of NORM waste that is constructed primarily of
				  nonearthen materials (e.g., wood, concrete, steel, plastic) that provide
				  structural support and integrity.
Technologically Enhanced Natural Radioactive
				  Material
(hereinafter referred to as
TENR
)- natural
				  sources of radiation which would not normally appear without some technological
				  activity not expressly designed to produce radiation.
Temporary Jobsite
- any location where
				  services subject to specific licensure are performed, other than the authorized
				  location(s) listed in the specific license.
Treatment
- any method, technique, or
				  process designed to change the physical or radiological character or
				  composition of any NORM or NORM waste so as to render it less radioactive,
				  safer for transport, amenable for recovery, amenable for storage, reduced in
				  volume, or changed in concentration.
Unrestricted Use
- any use that does not
				  have controls in place to protect an individual member of the public from
				  exposure to radiation and radioactive material.