{"data":{"id":"us-nj/n.j.-stat.-13-1e-179","jurisdiction":"us-nj","citation":"N.J. Stat. § 13:1E-179","heading":"Definitions.","body":"3.\tAs used in this act:\n\"Class of low-level radioactive waste\" means a designation of low-level radioactive waste by the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission based on the concentration of specific radionuclides in the waste;\n\"Commission\" means the Northeast Interstate Low-Level Radioactive Waste Commission created pursuant to Article IV of P.L.1983, c.329 (C.32:31-5);\n\"Department\" means the Department of Environmental Protection;\n\"Disposal\" means the isolation of low-level radioactive waste from the biosphere for the hazardous life of the waste;\n\"Facility\" means the land, buildings, equipment, and improvements used or developed for the treatment, storage, or disposal of the low-level radioactive wastes generated within the party states to the Northeast Interstate Low-Level Radioactive Waste Management Compact;\n\"Low-level radioactive waste\" means radioactive waste that (1) is neither high-level waste nor spent fuel, nor by-product material as defined in paragraph (2) of subsection (e) of 42 U.S.C. s.2014; and (2) is classified by the federal government as low-level waste, consistent with existing law; but does not include waste generated as a result of atomic energy defense activities of the federal government, as defined in the \"Low-Level Radioactive Waste Policy Act,\" Pub.L.96-573 (42 U.S.C. s.2021b et seq.) and the \"Low-Level Radioactive Waste Policy Amendments Act of 1985,\" Pub.L.99-240 (42 U.S.C. s.2021b et seq.) or federal research and development activities;\n\"Plan\" means the Low-Level Radioactive Waste Disposal Plan adopted by the department pursuant to section 10 of P.L.1987, c.333 (C.13:1E-186);\n\"Region\" means the geographical area encompassed by the combined jurisdictions of the party states to the Northeast Interstate Low-Level Radioactive Waste Management Compact;\n\"Site\" means both the physical location with a buffer zone and the technology employed to isolate low-level radioactive waste at that location; and\n\"Generator\" means any person, association, public utility, hospital, clinic, research laboratory, corporation, society, radiopharmaceutical facility, academic facility, or nuclear medical research facility that produces low-level radioactive waste, or any other entity identified by the board that produces low-level radioactive waste, or that is licensed by the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission to use, possess, handle or dispose of radioactive materials.\nL.1987,c.333,s.3; amended 1991, c.166, s.1; 2002, c.105, s.1.","path":["TITLE 13 CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT--PARKS AND RESERVATIONS"],"source_url":"https://pub.njleg.state.nj.us/statutes/STATUTES-TEXT.zip","current_through":"P.L.2025, c.405, and J.R.22","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-08-27T17:54:13Z","sha256":"1bc2df95f40f1ade3adb9e346499f803f8d032019e82e3ab6de7162c0a57314c","source_id":"us-nj","stale":true,"prev":"us-nj/n.j.-stat.-13-1e-177","next":"us-nj/n.j.-stat.-13-1e-181.3"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}