Maine Revised Statutes > Title 35-A > Part 3 > Chapter 43 > Subchapter 3 – Decommissioning
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- Air contaminants: includes , but is not limited to, dust, fumes, gas, mist, particulate matter, smoke, vapor or any combination thereof. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 38 Sec. 582
- Air pollution: means the presence in the outdoor atmosphere of one or more air contaminants in sufficient quantities and of such characteristics and duration as to be injurious to human, plant or animal life or to property, or which unreasonably interfere with the enjoyment of life and property throughout the State or throughout such areas of the State as shall be affected thereby. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 38 Sec. 582
- Ambient air: means all air outside of buildings, stacks or exterior ducts. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 38 Sec. 582
- Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
- Closing: means the time at which a nuclear power plant ceases to generate electricity and is retired from active service. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 35-A Sec. 4352
- Commission: means the Public Utilities Commission. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 35-A Sec. 102
- Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
- Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
- Decedent: A deceased person.
- Decommissioning: means the series of activities undertaken beginning at the time of closing of a nuclear power plant to ensure that the final disposition of the site or any radioactive components or material, but not including spent fuel, associated with the plant is accomplished safely, in compliance with all applicable state and federal laws. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 35-A Sec. 4352
- Decommissioning expenses: means the following:
A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 35-A Sec. 4352Decommissioning financing plan: means the plan approved by the commission under section 4353. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 35-A Sec. 4352 Decommissioning fund committee: means a committee established to have overall responsibility, as described in section 4354, for a decommissioning trust fund. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 35-A Sec. 4352 Emission: means a release of air contaminants into ambient air or the air contaminants so released. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 38 Sec. 582 Emission source: means any and all sources of emissions of air contaminants, whether privately or publicly owned or operated. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 38 Sec. 582 Escrow: Money given to a third party to be held for payment until certain conditions are met. Escrow account: means an account established under commission rules to hold funds collected under an interim decommissioning financing plan promulgated under section 4353, subsection 5, until a decommissioning trust fund is established or to hold funds for other temporary purposes under this subchapter. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 35-A Sec. 4352 Executor: A male person named in a will to carry out the decedent Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator. fund: means a trust fund set up as prescribed in sections 4353 and 4355 to hold money for the eventual purpose of paying decommissioning expenses. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 35-A Sec. 4352 Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases. Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). Source: OCC Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity. Licensee: means the holder of the operating permit from the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission for a nuclear power plant. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 35-A Sec. 4352 Majority: when used in reference to age shall mean the age of 18 and over. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 1 Sec. 72 Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan. Municipality: includes , for purposes of enacting an air pollution control ordinance, only cities, organized towns and plantations. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 38 Sec. 582 Municipality: includes cities, towns and plantations, except that "municipality" does not include plantations in Title 10, chapter 110, subchapter IV; or Title 30?A, Part 2. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 1 Sec. 72 Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period. Opacity: means the degree of light obscuring capability of emissions of visible air contaminants expressed as a percentage. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 38 Sec. 582 Owner: means any transmission and distribution utility that owns any portion of a nuclear power plant, whether directly or through ownership of stock in a company that owns any portion of a nuclear power plant or through membership in a holding company that owns any portion of a nuclear power plant or through other means. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 35-A Sec. 4352 Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses. Person: means any individual, partnership, corporation, whether private, public or quasi-municipal, municipality, state governmental agency or other legal entity. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 38 Sec. 582 Personal property: All property that is not real property. plant: means a nuclear fission thermal power plant situated in this State. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 35-A Sec. 4352 Premature closing: means the closing of a nuclear power plant before the projected date of decommissioning, as projected in the decommissioning financing plan under section 4353. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 35-A Sec. 4352 Prompt removal and dismantlement: means to immediately remove radioactive or radioactively contaminated material down to allowable residual levels which permit release of the property for unrestricted access. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 35-A Sec. 4352 Real estate: includes lands and all tenements and hereditaments connected therewith, and all rights thereto and interests therein. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 1 Sec. 72 Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land. Statute: A law passed by a legislature. Transmission and distribution utility: means a person, its lessees, trustees or receivers or trustees appointed by a court, owning, controlling, operating or managing a transmission and distribution plant for compensation within the State, except where the electricity is distributed by the entity that generates the electricity through private property alone solely for the use of:
A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 35-A Sec. 102Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust. Trustee: means a bank or trust company qualified to act as a fiduciary in this State. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 35-A Sec. 4352 United States: includes territories and the District of Columbia. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 1 Sec. 72 Waste: means refuse, garbage, rubbish, trash or unwanted or discarded materials of any kind and source. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 38 Sec. 582 Year: means a calendar year, unless otherwise expressed. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 1 Sec. 72