Terms Used In New Hampshire Revised Statutes > Chapter 125-F - Radiological Health Program

• Amendment: A proposal to alter the text of a pending bill or other measure by striking out some of it, by inserting new language, or both. Before an amendment becomes part of the measure, thelegislature must agree to it.
• Byproduct material: means any radioactive material, except special nuclear material, yielded in or made radioactive by exposure to the radiation incident to the process of producing or utilizing special nuclear material. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 125-F:3
• Civil penalty: means any monetary penalty levied on a licensee or registrant because of violations of statutes, rules, licenses, or registration certificates, but does not include criminal penalties. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 125-F:3
• Closure: or "site closure" means all activities performed at a waste disposal site, such as stabilization and contouring, to assure that the site is in a stable condition so that only minor custodial care, surveillance, and monitoring are necessary at the site following termination of licensed operation. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 125-F:3
• Commissioner: means the commissioner of the department of health and human services. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 125-F:3
• Committee membership: Legislators are assigned to specific committees by their party. Seniority, regional balance, and political philosophy are the most prominent factors in the committee assignment process.
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
• Decommissioning: means final operational activities at a facility to dismantle site structures, to decontaminate site surfaces and remaining structures, to stabilize and contain residual radioactive material, and to carry out any other activities to prepare the site for post-operational care. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 125-F:3
• Department: means the department of health and human services. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 125-F:3
• Fee simple: Absolute title to property with no limitations or restrictions regarding the person who may inherit it.
• following: when used by way of reference to any section of these laws, shall mean the section next preceding or following that in which such reference is made, unless some other is expressly designated. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 21:13
• Generator: means a person who produces or treats low-level radioactive waste in the state. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 125-F:3
• Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
• governing body: shall mean the board of selectmen in a town, the board of aldermen or council in a city or town with a town council, the school board in a school district or the village district commissioners in a village district, or when used to refer to unincorporated towns or unorganized places, or both, the county commissioners. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 21:48
• governor and council: shall mean the governor with the advice and consent of the council. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 21:31-a
• High-level radioactive waste: means (a) irradiated reactor fuel, (b) liquid waste resulting from the operation of the first cycle solvent extraction system or equivalent, and concentrated wastes from subsequent extraction cycles, or equivalent, in a facility for reprocessing irradiated reactor fuel, and (c) solids into which such liquid waste has been converted. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 125-F:3
• Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
• justice: when applied to a magistrate, shall mean a justice of a municipal court, or a justice of the peace having jurisdiction over the subject-matter. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 21:12
• 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}
• License: general and specific:
  (a) "General license" means a license pursuant to rules adopted by the program without the filing of an application with the program, or the issuance of licensing documents to particular persons to transfer, acquire, own, possess or use quantities of, or devices or equipment utilizing, radioactive material. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 125-F:3
• Low-level radioactive waste: means radioactive waste not classified as high-level radioactive waste, transuranic waste, spent nuclear fuel, or byproduct material as defined in paragraph II. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 125-F:3
• Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
• Person: means any individual, corporation, partnership, firm, association, trust, estate, public or private institution, group, agency of this state other than the program, political subdivision of this state, any other state or political subdivision or agency, and any legal successor, representative, or agent of the foregoing, other than federal government agencies. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 125-F:3
• Program: means the radiological health program of the department of health and human services. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 125-F:3
• Radiation: means ionizing radiation and nonionizing radiation:
  (a) "Ionizing radiation" means gamma rays and x-rays, alpha and beta particles, high speed electrons, neutrons, protons, and other nuclear particles, but not sound or radio waves or visible, infrared or ultraviolet light;
  (b) "Nonionizing radiation" means:
  (1) Any electromagnetic radiation other than ionizing radiation which the program determines by rule to present a biological hazard to the occupational or public health and safety; and
  (2) Any sonic, ultrasonic, or infrasonic wave which the program determines by rule to present a biological hazard to the occupational or public health or safety. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 125-F:3
• Radiation equipment: means any manufactured product or device, the component part of such product or device, or any machine or system which during operation is able to generate or emit radiation, except those which emit radiation only from radioactive material. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 125-F:3
• Radioactive material: means any material, whether solid, liquid, or gas, which emits radiation spontaneously. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 125-F:3
• Registration: means registration in accordance with rules adopted pursuant to this chapter. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 125-F:3
• Source material: means (a) uranium, thorium, or any other material which the governor 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 (b) ores containing one or more of the foregoing materials in such concentration as the governor 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. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 125-F:3
• Special nuclear material: means (a) plutonium, uranium 233, uranium enriched in the isotope 233 or in the isotope 235, and any other material which the governor declares by order to be special nuclear material after the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission or its successor has determined the material to be special nuclear material, but does not include source material; or (b) any material artificially enriched by any of the foregoing, but does not include source material. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 125-F:3
• Spent nuclear fuel: means irradiated nuclear fuel that has undergone at least one year's decay since being used as a source of energy in a power reactor. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 125-F:3
• 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
• Transuranic waste: means radioactive waste containing alpha emitting transuranic elements, with radioactive half lives greater than 5 years in excess of 100 nanocuries per gram. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 125-F:3
• United States: shall include said district and territories. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 21:4