Maine Revised Statutes > Title 38 > Chapter 14-A > Subchapter 3-A – Low-Level Radioactive Waste Disposal


§ 1482	Requirements to be met by any low-level radioactive waste disposal facility
§ 1483	Regulation of disposal or storage of low-level radioactive waste classified by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission as below regulatory concern

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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
Low-level radioactive waste disposal facility: means a facility for the isolation of low-level radioactive waste from the biosphere inhabited by people and their food chains. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 38 Sec. 1451
United States: includes territories and the District of Columbia. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 1 Sec. 72