Terms Used In New Hampshire Revised Statutes > Chapter 162-F - Decommissioning of Nuclear Electric Generating Facilities

• Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
• Committee: means a nuclear decommissioning financing committee established pursuant to N. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 162-F:14
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Decommissioning: means , but is not limited to, any or all of the following, as may be required by any federal or state agency with jurisdiction, when any radioactive portion of the facility is permanently removed from service:
  (a) Safe removal of the land, facility, or site from service, including, but not limited to, decontamination, stabilization, removal, relocation, shipment, containment, demolition, dismantling, or storage, or a combination thereof, of any buildings, structures, systems, components, materials, or debris containing activation products or radioactive contamination. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 162-F:14
• Electric utility: means any entity that generates or distributes electricity and which recovers the cost of this electricity, either directly or indirectly, through rates established by the entity itself or by a separate regulatory authority. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 162-F:14
• 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.
• Facility: means any nuclear electric generating facility subject to decommissioning pursuant to this chapter. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 162-F:14
• 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
• Fund: means a nuclear decommissioning financing fund established pursuant to N. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 162-F:14
• Funding assurance: means any prepayment, external sinking funds, parental or self-guarantee, insurance, bonds, letters of credit, form of surety, long-term power sales contract, or other method, or combination of methods approved by the committee, that, in the aggregate, meets or exceeds the decommissioning funding requirements established by the committee. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 162-F:14
• Funding date: means the date established by the committee at which time the fund shall have sufficient moneys to complete decommissioning. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 162-F:14
• 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.
• Non-utility: means any entity owning or proposing to own an interest in a nuclear electric generating facility, other than an electric utility. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 162-F:14
• 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.
• person: may extend and be applied to bodies corporate and politic as well as to individuals. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 21:9
• Projected cost of decommissioning: means the amount, as determined by the committee, that is required to fully fund the cost of decommissioning a facility. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 162-F:14
• 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
• Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony.
• Subpoena duces tecum: A command to a witness to produce documents.
• Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
• Transcript: A written, word-for-word record of what was said, either in a proceeding such as a trial or during some other conversation, as in a transcript of a hearing or oral deposition.
• vacancy shall be filled for the unexpired term: when used in connection with appointments to the state service by the governor and council shall be construed to mean that the successor shall be commissioned for a term equal in length to the unexpired balance of the term of his predecessor and where an appointee has held over beyond the expiration date of his commission, so far as the appointment of a successor is concerned, a vacancy shall be deemed to have been created. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 21:34