(420 ILCS 42/10)
Sec. 10. Definitions. As used in this Act:
"Agency" means the Illinois Emergency Management Agency. "By-product material" means
the tailings or wastes produced by the extraction
or concentration of uranium or thorium from any ore processed primarily for
its source material content, including discrete surface wastes resulting
from underground solution extraction processes but not including
underground ore bodies depleted by such solution extraction processes.
"Director" means the Director of the Illinois Emergency Management Agency.
"Person" means any individual, corporation, partnership, firm,
association, trust, estate, public or private institution, group, agency,
political subdivision of this State, any other State or political
subdivision or agency thereof, and any legal successor, representative,
agent, or agency of the foregoing, other than the United States Nuclear
Regulatory Commission, or any successor thereto, and other than federal
government agencies licensed by the United States Nuclear Regulatory
Commission, or any successor thereto.
"Radiation emergency" means the uncontrolled release of radioactive
material from a radiation installation that poses a potential threat to
the public health, welfare, and safety.
"Source material" means (i) uranium, thorium, or any other material
that the Agency declares by order to be source material after the
United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission or its successor has
determined the material to be source material; or (ii) ores containing one
or more of those
materials in such concentration as the Agency declares
by order to be source material after the United States Nuclear Regulatory
Commission or its successor has determined the material in such
concentration to be source material.
"Specific license" means a license, issued after application, to
use, manufacture, produce, transfer, receive, acquire, own, or possess
quantities of radioactive materials or devices or equipment utilizing
radioactive materials.
(Source: P.A. 95-777, eff. 8-4-08.)
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