Section 504.20  Definitions

As used in this Part, the following definitions will apply:

            "Communication Link" means the telephone line or other connection between the Department supplied modem on the owner's premises to the Department's headquarters in Springfield, Illinois.

            "Department" means the Illinois Department of Nuclear Safety.

            "Owner" means the owner and operator of the nuclear power reactor.

            "Point" means the system parameter being monitored.

            "RDL" means the Reactor Data Link for a reactor.  The RDL includes the entire system by which the owner provides and the Department receives a System Status Signals Catalogue at the Department's headquarters in Springfield, Illinois.

            "RDL outage" means any breakdown in the RDL that prevents the normal continuous data transmission of the System Status Signals Catalogue to the Department's headquarters in Springfield, Illinois.

            "Reactor" means a nuclear power reactor.

            "Station Catalogue" means the complete and inclusive list of all computer monitored points available for transmission from a nuclear power station from which the System Status Signals Catalogue for each reactor is chosen.

            "Station Computer" means the computer or computers which collect and transfer data to the Department's modems.

            "System Status Signals Catalogue" means the points selected by the Department from the Station Catalogue to be transmitted over the Communications Link.  A System Status Signals Catalogue is selected for each reactor.