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Colorado Revised Statutes Title 24. Government State § 24-60-2204. Definitions

Current as of January 01, 2025 | Updated by Findlaw Staff

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;  1 or

(e) Wastes from mining, milling, smelting, or similar processing of ores and mineral-bearing material primarily for minerals other than radium.

1 42 U.S.C.A. § 2014(e).
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