Terms Used In Maine Revised Statutes Title 38 Sec. 1452

  • High-level radioactive waste: means 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 that liquid waste that contains fission products in sufficient concentrations; and other highly radioactive material that the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission, consistent with existing law, determines by rule to require permanent isolation. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 38 Sec. 1451
  • 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
  • Low-level radioactive waste: means radioactive material that is not high-level radioactive waste, spent nuclear fuel, transuranic waste or by-product material, as defined in the United States Code, title 42, § 2014(e)(2), the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, Section 11(e)(2); and that the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission, consistent with existing law, classifies as low-level radioactive waste. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 38 Sec. 1451
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, this State does not consent to the acquisition by the Federal Government, by purchase, condemnation, lease, easement or by any other means, of any land, building or other structure, above or below ground, or in or under the waters of the State for use in storing, depositing or treating high-level or low-level radioactive waste materials. The Legislature may consent, by prior affirmative vote, to such activities, except that consent is expressly withheld for any such activity undertaken in connection with the deep geological disposal of high-level radioactive waste, as provided in section 1461?A. [PL 1985, c. 802, §5 (AMD).]
SECTION HISTORY

PL 1983, c. 381, §9 (NEW). PL 1985, c. 802, §5 (AMD).
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