[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 40, Volume 24]

[Revised as of July 1, 2006]

From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access

[CITE: 40CFR191.02]



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                   TITLE 40--PROTECTION OF ENVIRONMENT

 

         CHAPTER I--ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY (CONTINUED)

 

PART 191_ENVIRONMENTAL RADIATION PROTECTION STANDARDS FOR MANAGEMENT AND 

DISPOSAL OF SPENT NUCLEAR FUEL, HIGH-LEVEL AND TRANSURANIC RADIOACTIVE 

WASTES--Table of Contents

 

      Subpart A_Environmental Standards for Management and Storage

 

Sec.  191.02  Definitions.



    Unless otherwise indicated in this subpart, all terms shall have the 

same meaning as in Subpart A of Part 190.

    (a) Agency means the Environmental Protection Agency.

    (b) Administrator means the Administrator of the Environmental 

Protection Agency.

    (c) Commission means the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

    (d) Department means the Department of Energy.

    (e) NWPA means the Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982 (Pub. L. 97-

425).

    (f) Agreement State means any State with which the Commission or the 

Atomic Energy Commission has entered into an effective agreement under 

subsection 274b of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended (68 Stat. 

919).

    (g) Spent nuclear fuel means fuel that has been withdrawn from a 

nuclear reactor following irradiation, the constituent elements of which 

have not been separated by reprocessing.

    (h) High-level radioactive waste, as used in this part, means high-

level radioactive waste as defined in the Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 

1982 (Pub. L. 97-425).

    (i) Transuranic radioactive waste, as used in this part, means waste 

containing more than 100 nanocuries of alpha-emitting transuranic 

isotopes, with half-lives greater than twenty years, per gram of waste, 

except for: (1) High-level radioactive wastes; (2) wastes that the 

Department has determined, with the concurrence of the Administrator, do 

not need the degree of isolation required by this part; or (3) wastes 

that the Commission has approved for disposal on a case-by-case basis in 

accordance with 10 CFR Part 61.

    (j) Radioactive waste, as used in this part, means the high-level 

and transuranic radioactive waste covered by this part.

    (k) Storage means retention of spent nuclear fuel or radioactive 

wastes with the intent and capability to readily retrieve such fuel or 

waste for subsequent use, processing, or disposal.

    (l) Disposal means permanent isolation of spent nuclear fuel or 

radioactive waste from the accessible environment with no intent of 

recovery, whether or not such isolation permits the recovery of such 

fuel or waste. For example, disposal of waste in a mined geologic 

repository occurs when all of the shafts to the repository are 

backfilled and sealed.

    (m) Management means any activity, operation, or process (except for 

transportation) conducted to prepare spent nuclear fuel or radioactive 

waste for storage or disposal, or the activities associated with placing 

such fuel or waste in a disposal system.

    (n) Site means an area contained within the boundary of a location 

under the effective control of persons possessing or using spent nuclear 

fuel or radioactive waste that are involved in any activity, operation, 

or process covered by this subpart.



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    (o) General environment means the total terrestrial, atmospheric, 

and aquatic environments outside sites within which any activity, 

operation, or process associated with the management and storage of 

spent nuclear fuel or radioactive waste is conducted.

    (p) Member of the public means any individual except during the time 

when that individual is a worker engaged in any activity, operation, or 

process that is covered by the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended.

    (q) Critical organ means the most exposed human organ or tissue 

exclusive of the integumentary system (skin) and the cornea.