Terms Used In Michigan Laws > Chapter 333 > Act 204 of 1987 - Low-Level Radioactive Waste Authority Act

• Advice and consent: Under the Constitution, presidential nominations for executive and judicial posts take effect only when confirmed by the Senate, and international treaties become effective only when the Senate approves them by a two-thirds vote.
• 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.
• Annual claim cost: means the net annual cost per unit of benefit before the addition of expenses, including claim settlement expenses, and a margin for profit or contingencies. See Michigan Laws 500.701
• Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
• Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
• Authority: means the low-level radioactive waste authority established in section 3. See Michigan Laws 333.26202
• Baseline: Projection of the receipts, outlays, and other budget amounts that would ensue in the future without any change in existing policy. Baseline projections are used to gauge the extent to which proposed legislation, if enacted into law, would alter current spending and revenue levels.
• Candidate site: means a site designated by the authority as a possible host site pursuant to section 11. See Michigan Laws 333.26202
• Carrier: means a person authorized pursuant to part 137 who is engaged in the transportation of waste by air, rail, highway, or water. See Michigan Laws 333.26202
• Commissioner: means the director. See Michigan Laws 500.102
• Commissioner: means the head of the authority. See Michigan Laws 333.26202
• Compact: means a contractual, cooperative agreement among 2 or more states to provide for the disposal of low-level radioactive waste that is reflected by the passage of statutes by the participating states. See Michigan Laws 333.26202
• 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.
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• Date of disablement: means the earliest date the insured is considered as being disabled under the definition of disability in the health insurance policy or certificate based on a doctor's evaluation or other evidence. See Michigan Laws 500.701
• Date of incurral: means the date a claim is determined to be a liability of the insurer. See Michigan Laws 500.701
• Department: means the department of public health. See Michigan Laws 333.26202
• Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
• Director: means the director of public health. See Michigan Laws 333.26202
• Disposal: means the isolation of waste from the biosphere by emplacement in the disposal site or as otherwise authorized in section 13709(3) of part 137. See Michigan Laws 333.26202
• Disposal site: means a geographic location in this state upon which the disposal unit and any other structures and appurtenances are located, the property upon which any monitoring equipment is located, and the isolation distance from the disposal unit to adjacent property lines. See Michigan Laws 333.26202
• Disposal unit: means the portion of the disposal site into which waste is placed for disposal. See Michigan Laws 333.26202
• Donor: The person who makes a gift.
• Elimination period: means a specified number of days, weeks, or months starting at the beginning of each period of loss, during which benefits under a health insurance policy or certificate are not payable. See Michigan Laws 500.701
• Equitable: Pertaining to civil suits in "equity" rather than in "law." In English legal history, the courts of "law" could order the payment of damages and could afford no other remedy. See damages. A separate court of "equity" could order someone to do something or to cease to do something. See, e.g., injunction. In American jurisprudence, the federal courts have both legal and equitable power, but the distinction is still an important one. For example, a trial by jury is normally available in "law" cases but not in "equity" cases. ^{Source: U.S. Courts}
• Escrow: Money given to a third party to be held for payment until certain conditions are met.
• Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
• Ex officio: Literally, by virtue of one's office.
• Executor: A male person named in a will to carry out the decedent
• Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.
• Freedom of Information Act: A federal law that mandates that all the records created and kept by federal agencies in the executive branch of government must be open for public inspection and copying. The only exceptions are those records that fall into one of nine exempted categories listed in the statute. ^{Source: OCC}
• fund: means the fund created in section 20. See Michigan Laws 333.26202
• Generator: means any person licensed as a generator by the nuclear regulatory commission and authorized pursuant to part 137 whose act or process results in the production of waste or whose act first causes waste to become subject to regulation under part 137 or federal law. See Michigan Laws 333.26202
• grantor: may be construed as including every person from or by whom any estate in lands passes in or by any deed. See Michigan Laws 8.3e
• Grantor: The person who establishes a trust and places property into it.
• Gross premium: means the amount of premium charged by the insurer. See Michigan Laws 500.701
• Groundwater: means water below the land surface in a zone of saturation. See Michigan Laws 333.26202
• Guardian: A person legally empowered and charged with the duty of taking care of and managing the property of another person who because of age, intellect, or health, is incapable of managing his (her) own affairs.
• Health insurance policy: means an expense-incurred hospital, medical, or surgical policy, certificate, or contract. See Michigan Laws 500.608
• Host site: means the candidate site that is designated by the commissioner as the location for the disposal site in this state. See Michigan Laws 333.26202
• Host site community: means the municipality that is designated by the commissioner as the host site. See Michigan Laws 333.26202
• Institute: means the international low-level radioactive waste research and education institute. See Michigan Laws 333.26202
• Institutional control: means the continued surveillance, monitoring, and care of the disposal site after site closure and stabilization to insure the protection of the public health, safety, and welfare, and the environment until the contents of the disposal site no longer have a radioactive content that is greater than the natural background radiation of the host site as determined during its site characterization. See Michigan Laws 333.26202
• Insurer: means an individual, corporation, association, partnership, reciprocal exchange, inter-insurer, Lloyds organization, fraternal benefit society, or other legal entity, engaged or attempting to engage in the business of making insurance or surety contracts. See Michigan Laws 500.106
• Interest rate: The amount paid by a borrower to a lender in exchange for the use of the lender's money for a certain period of time. Interest is paid on loans or on debt instruments, such as notes or bonds, either at regular intervals or as part of a lump sum payment when the issue matures. ^{Source: OCC}
• 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}
• Level premium: means a premium on a health insurance policy or certificate calculated to remain unchanged throughout either the lifetime of the policy or certificate or for some shorter projected period of years. See Michigan Laws 500.701
• Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
• Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
• Local monitoring committee: means a committee established pursuant to section 14 to represent a candidate site. See Michigan Laws 333.26202
• Long-term care insurance: means any insurance policy, certificate, or rider advertised, marketed, offered, or designed to provide coverage for not less than 12 consecutive months for each covered person on an expense incurred, indemnity, prepaid, or other basis, for 1 or more necessary or medically necessary diagnostic, preventive, therapeutic, rehabilitative, maintenance, or personal care services, provided in a setting other than an acute care unit of a hospital. See Michigan Laws 500.701
• Manifest: means a form provided or approved by the department that is used for identifying the quantity; composition, including the class, curie count, and radioactive nuclides; origin; routing; and destination of waste from the point of generation to the point of processing, collection, or disposal. See Michigan Laws 333.26202
• Modal premium: means the premium paid on a health insurance policy or certificate based on a premium term that could be annual, semiannual, quarterly, monthly, or weekly. See Michigan Laws 500.701
• month: means a calendar month; the word "year" a calendar year; and the word "year" alone shall be equivalent to the words "year of our Lord". See Michigan Laws 8.3j
• Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
• Municipality: means a city, village, township, or Indian tribe. See Michigan Laws 333.26202
• Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
• Operation: means the control, supervision, or implementation of the actual physical activities involved in the acceptance, storage, disposal, and monitoring of waste at the disposal site, the maintenance of the disposal site, and any other responsibility pertaining to the disposal unit and the disposal site. See Michigan Laws 333.26202
• 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.
• Performance assessment: means an analysis of the potential pathways for release of waste to the environment and the potential impacts of a release during the transportation of radioactive waste to the disposal site and during the handling and disposal of waste at the disposal site, including, but not limited to: