Colo. Rev. Stat. § 24-60-2204

Current through Chapter 519 of the 2024 Legislative Session and Chapter 2 of the 2024 First Extraordinary Session
Section 24-60-2204 - Definitions

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

(1) "Department" means the department of public health and environment.
(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) "Low-level radioactive waste" means radioactive waste, other than:
(a) Waste generated as a result of defense activities of the federal government or federal research and development activities;
(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;
(c) Waste material containing transuranic elements with contamination levels greater than ten nanocuries per gram of waste material;
(d) Byproduct material as defined in Section 11 e. (2) of the "Atomic Energy Act of 1954", as amended on November 8, 1978; or
(e) Wastes from mining, milling, smelting, or similar processing of ores and mineral-bearing material primarily for minerals other than radium.

C.R.S. § 24-60-2204

L. 82: Entire part added, p. 403, § 1, effective July 1. L. 94: (1) amended, p. 2740, § 376, effective July 1.

For the definition of "byproduct material" as defined in the federal "Atomic Energy Act of 1954", see 42 U.S.C. 2014(e)(2) .