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420 ILCS 5/3

(420 ILCS 5/3) (from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 4303)

(Text of Section before amendment by P.A. 103-569)

Sec. 3. Definitions.

Unless the context otherwise clearly requires, as used
in
this Act:

(1) "Agency" means the Illinois Emergency Management Agency
						
of the State of Illinois.

(2) "Director" means the Director of the Illinois Emergency Management Agency.

(3) "Person" means any individual, corporation, partnership, firm,
association, trust, estate, public or private institution, group,
agency, political subdivision of this State, any other state or
political subdivision or agency thereof, and any legal successor,
representative, agent, or agency of the foregoing.

(4) "NRC" means the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission or
any agency which succeeds to its functions in the licensing of nuclear
power reactors or facilities for storing spent nuclear fuel.

(5) "High-level radioactive waste" means (1) 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 (2) the highly radioactive material that the NRC has
determined to be high-level radioactive waste requiring permanent isolation.

(6) "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.

(7) "Spent nuclear fuel" means fuel that has been withdrawn from a
nuclear reactor following irradiation, the constituent elements of which
have not been separated by reprocessing.

(8) "Transuranic waste" means material contaminated with elements that
have an atomic number greater than 92, including neptunium, plutonium,
americium, and curium, excluding radioactive wastes shipped to a licensed
low-level radioactive waste disposal facility.

(9) "Highway route controlled quantity of radioactive materials" means that quantity of radioactive materials defined as a highway route controlled quantity under rules of the United States Department of Transportation, or any successor agency.

(Source: P.A. 93-1029, eff. 8-25-04.)

    (Text of Section after amendment by P.A. 103-569)
    Sec. 3. Definitions. Unless the context otherwise clearly requires, as used in this Act:

(1) "Agency" or "IEMA-OHS" means the Illinois Emergency Management Agency and Office of Homeland Security, or its successor agency.

(2) "Director" means the Director of the Agency.

(3) "Person" means any individual, corporation, partnership, firm, association, trust, estate, public or private institution, group, agency, political subdivision of this State, any other state or political subdivision or agency thereof, and any legal successor, representative, agent, or agency of the foregoing.

(4) "NRC" means the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission or any agency which succeeds to its functions in the licensing of nuclear power reactors or facilities for storing spent nuclear fuel.

(5) "High-level radioactive waste" means (1) 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 (2) the highly radioactive material that the NRC has determined to be high-level radioactive waste requiring permanent isolation.

(6) "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.

(7) "Spent nuclear fuel" means fuel that has been withdrawn from a nuclear reactor following irradiation, the constituent elements of which have not been separated by reprocessing.

(8) "Transuranic waste" means material contaminated with elements that have an atomic number greater than 92, including neptunium, plutonium, americium, and curium, excluding radioactive wastes shipped to a licensed low-level radioactive waste disposal facility.

(9) "Highway route controlled quantity of radioactive materials" means that quantity of radioactive materials defined as a highway route controlled quantity under rules of the United States Department of Transportation, or any successor agency.

(10) "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.

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

(12) "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.

(Source: P.A. 103-569, eff. 6-1-24.)