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45 ILCS 141/15

(45 ILCS 141/15)

    Sec. 15. Definitions. In this Act:
    "IEMA-OHS" means the Illinois Emergency Management Agency and Office of Homeland Security, or its successor agency.
    "Commission" means the Central Midwest Interstate Low-Level Radioactive Waste Commission.
    "Compact" means the Central Midwest Interstate Low-Level Radioactive Waste Compact.
    "Director" means the Director of IEMA-OHS.
    "Disposal" means the isolation of waste from the biosphere in a permanent facility designed for that purpose.

"Facility" means a parcel of land or site, together with the structures, equipment, and improvements on or appurtenant to the land or site, that is used or is being developed for the treatment, storage or disposal of low-level radioactive waste.

"Low-level radioactive waste" or "waste" means radioactive waste not classified as (1) high-level radioactive waste, (2) transuranic waste, (3) spent nuclear fuel, or (4) byproduct material as defined in Sections 11e(2), 11e(3), and 11e(4) of the Atomic Energy Act (42 U.S.C. 2014). This definition shall apply notwithstanding any declaration by the federal government, a state, or any regulatory agency that any radioactive material is exempt from any regulatory control.

"Management plan" means the plan adopted by the Commission for the storage, transportation, treatment and disposal of waste within the region.

"Nuclear facilities" means nuclear power plants, facilities housing nuclear test and research reactors, facilities for the chemical conversion of uranium, and facilities for the storage of spent nuclear fuel or high-level radioactive waste.

"Nuclear power plant" or "nuclear steam-generating facility" means a thermal power plant in which the energy (heat) released by the fissioning of nuclear fuel is used to boil water to produce steam.

"Nuclear power reactor" means an apparatus, other than an atomic weapon, designed or used to sustain nuclear fission in a self-supporting chain reaction.

"Person" means any individual, corporation, business enterprise or other legal entity, public or private, and any legal successor, representative, agent or agency of that individual, corporation, business enterprise, or legal entity.

"Region" means the geographical area of the State of Illinois and the Commonwealth of Kentucky.

"Regional Facility" means any facility as defined in this Act that is (1) located in Illinois, and (2) established by Illinois pursuant to designation of Illinois as a host state by the Commission.

"Small modular reactor" or "SMR" means an advanced nuclear reactor: (1) with a rated nameplate capacity of 300 electrical megawatts or less; and (2) that may be constructed and operated in combination with similar reactors at a single site.

"Storage" means the temporary holding of radioactive material for treatment or disposal.

"Treatment" means any method, technique or process, including storage for radioactive decay, designed to change the physical, chemical, or biological characteristics of the radioactive material in order to render the radioactive material safe for transport or management, amenable to recovery, convertible to another usable material, or reduced in volume.

(Source: P.A. 103-306, eff. 7-28-23; 103-569, eff. 6-1-24.)