New Hampshire Revised Statutes 107-D:8 – Recovery for Damage
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Terms Used In New Hampshire Revised Statutes 107-D:8
- Carrier: means any person engaged in the transportation on the public roads or by water or by railroads in this state of goods or property in, to, or through this state, whether or not such transportation is for hire. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 107-D:1
- High-level radioactive waste: means :
(a) The highly radioactive material resulting from the reprocessing of irradiated reactor fuel, including liquid waste produced directly in reprocessing and any solid material derived from such liquid waste that contains fission products in sufficient concentrations;
(b) The highly radioactive material resulting from atomic energy defense activities; and
(c) Any other highly radioactive material, greater than class C in accordance with Title 10, Code of Federal Regulations, that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, consistent with existing law, determines by rule requires permanent isolation. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 107-D:1 - Person: includes any individual, corporation, partnership, association, state, municipality, political subdivision of a state, and any agency or instrumentality of the United States government or any other entity and includes any officer, agent, or employee of any of the above. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 107-D:1
- Shipper: means any person who arranges for, provides for, solicits a carrier for, consigns to a carrier for, or contracts with a carrier for shipment or transport of goods or property. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 107-D:1
- state: when applied to different parts of the United States, may extend to and include the District of Columbia and the several territories, so called; and the words "United States" shall include said district and territories. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 21:4
In the event of any damage to state property or any discharge of high-level radioactive waste from the authorized shipping package or container or any threat of such discharge which results from the transportation, storage, holding, detention, delivery for transportation, or acceptance for transportation of high-level radioactive waste in this state, the state may recover from any shipper, carrier, bailor, bailee, or any other person responsible for such storage, transportation, holding, detention, delivery, or acceptance all costs incurred by the state in the reparation of the damage and all costs incurred in the prevention, abatement, or removal of any such discharge or threatened discharge, including reasonable attorney’s fees incurred with respect to recovery.