Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 96 Part 2.djvu/841

 PUBLIC LAW 97-425—JAN. 7, 1983

96 STAT. 2203

(F) defense nuclear materials security and safeguards and security investigations; and (G) defense research and development. (4) The term "candidate site" means an area, within a geologic and hydrologic system, that is recommended by the Secretary under section 112 for site characterization, approved by the President under section 112 for site characterization, or undergoing site characterization under section 113. (5) The term "civilian nuclear activity" means any atomic energy activity other than an atomic energy defense activity. (6) The term "civilian nuclear power reactor" means a civilian nuclear powerplant required to be licensed under section 103 or 104 b. of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 (42 U.S.C. 2133, 2134(b)). (7) The term "Commission" means the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. (8) The term "Department" means the Department of Energy. (9) The term "disposal" means the emplacement in a repository of high-level radioactive waste, spent nuclear fuel, or other highly radioactive material with no foreseeable intent of recovery, whether or not such emplacement permits the recovery of such waste. (10) The terms "disposal package" and "package" mean the primary container that holds, and is in contact with, solidified high-level radioactive waste, spent nuclear fuel, or other radioactive materials, and any overpacks that are emplaced at a repository. (11) The term "engineered barriers" means manmade components of a disposal system designed to prevent the release of radionuclides into the geologic medium involved. Such term includes the high-level radioactive waste form, high-level radioactive waste canisters, and other materials placed over and around such canisters. (12) The term "high-level radioactive waste" means— (A) the highly radioactive material resulting from the reprocessing of spent nuclear fuel, including liquid waste produced directly in reprocessing and any solid material derived from such liquid waste that contains fission products in sufficient concentrations; and (B) other highly radioactive material that the Commission, consistent with existing law, determines by rule requires permanent isolation. (13) The term "Federal agency" means any Executive agency, as defined in section 105 of title 5, United States Code. (14) The term "Governor" means the chief executive officer of a State. (15) The term "Indian tribe" means any Indian tribe, band, nation, or other organized group or community of Indians recognized as eligible for the services provided to Indians by the Secretary of the Interior because of their status as Indians, including any Alaska Native village, as defined in section 3(c) of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (43 U.S.C. 1602(c)). (16) The term "low-level radioactive waste" means radioactive material that— (A) is not high-level radioactive waste, spent nuclear fuel, transuranic waste, or by-product material as defined in

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