As used in sections 24-60-2205 to 24-60-2212, unless the context otherwise requires:

1. (1) Department means the department of public health and environment.
2. (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. (3) Low-level radioactive waste means radioactive waste, other than:

   1. (a) Waste generated as a result of defense activities of the federal government or federal research and development activities;
   2. (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;
   3. (c) Waste material containing transuranic elements with contamination levels greater than ten nanocuries per gram of waste material;
   4. (d) Byproduct material as defined in Section 11 e.
   5. (2) of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended on November 8, 1978; or
   6. (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).