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 f 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.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) .
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