Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 99 Part 2.djvu/773

 PUBLIC LAW 99-240—JAN. 15, 1986

99 STAT. 1883

"o) 'Person' means any individual, corporation, business enterprise or other legal entity, either public or private, and any legal successor, representative, agent or agency of that individual, corporation, business enterprise, or legal entity. "p) 'Region' means the geographical area of the party states. "q) 'Regional facility' means a facility which is located within the region and which is established by a party state pursuant to designation of that state as a host state by the Commission. "r) 'Shallow-land burial' means a land disposal facility in which radioactive waste is disposed of in or within the upper 30 meters of the earth's surface; however, this definition shall not include an enclosed, engineered, strongly structurally enforced and solidified bunker that extends below the earth's surface. "s) 'Site' means the geographic location of a facility. "t) 'Source reduction' means those administrative practices that reduce the radionuclide levels in low-level radioactive waste or that prevent the generation of additional low-level radioactive waste. "u) 'State' means a state of the United States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands or any other territorial possession of the United States. "v) *Storage' means the temporary holding of waste for treatment or disposal. "w) 'Treatment' means any method, technique or process, including storage for radioactive decay, designed to change the physical, chemical or biological characteristics or composition of any waste in order to render the wsiste safer for transport or management, amenable to recovery, convertible to another usable material or reduced in volume, "x) 'Volume reduction' means those methods including, but not limited to, biological, chemical, mechanical and thermal methods used to reduce the amount of space that waste materials occupy and to put them into a form suitable for storage or disposal. "y) 'Waste management' means the source and volume reduction, storage, transportation, treatment or disposal of waste. "ARTICLE III. THE COMMISSION "a) There is created the Central Midwest Interstate Low-Level Radioactive Waste Commission. Upon the eligible states becoming party states, the Commission shall consist of two voting members from each state eligible to be a host state, one voting member from any other party state, and an ex officio non-voting member who is a member of the County Board of or who is a County Commissioner of each host county. The Grovernor of each party state shall notify the Commission in writing of its members and any alternates. "b) E}ach Commission member is entitled to one vote. No action of the Commission is binding unless a majority of the total membership casts its vote in the affirmative. "c) The Commission shall elect annually from among its members a chairperson. The Commission shall adopt and publish, in convenient form, by-laws and policies that are not inconsistent with this compact, including procedures that conform with the provisions of the Federal Administrative Procedure Act (5 U.S.C. ss. 500 to 559) to the greatest extent practicable in regard to notice, conduct and recording of meetings; access by the public to records; provision of information to the public; conduct of adjudicatory hearings; and issuance of decisions.

Central Midwest Interstate LowLevel Radioactive Waste Commission, establishment.

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