24-60-2204. Definitions

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.