Sec.19-24-2. Definitions

(a) As used in sections 19-24-1 to 19-24-14, inclusive:

"Airborne radioactive material" means any radioactive material dispersed in the air in the form of dusts, fumes, mists, vapors or gases;

"Calendar quarter" means any period determined according to either of the following methods:

(1) The first period of thirteen complete, consecutive calendar weeks in a calendar year; the second period of thirteen complete, consecutive calendar weeks in a calendar year; the third period of thirteen complete, consecutive calendar weeks in a calendar year; the fourth period of thirteen complete, consecutive calendar weeks in a calendar year. Alternately the four periods may consist of the first fourteen complete, consecutive calendar weeks; the next twelve complete, consecutive calendar weeks; the next fourteen complete, consecutive calendar weeks, and the last twelve complete, consecutive calendar weeks. If at the end of a calendar year there are any days not falling within a complete calendar week of that year, such days shall be included within the last complete calendar week of that year. If at the beginning of any calendar year there are days not falling within a complete calendar week of that year, such days shall be included within the last complete calendar week of the previous year.

(2) The first period of three consecutive months of any year beginning on any date in January. The second, third, and fourth periods of three consecutive months of any year accordingly beginning on the same date in April, July and October respectively. The fourth period shall extend into January of the succeeding year if necessary to complete a three-month period. The method of determining calendar quarters shall not be changed except at the beginning of a calendar year.

"Department" means the state department of environmental protection.

"High radiation area" means any area accessible to individuals in which there exists radiation originating from radioactive materials or other sources of ionizing radiation at such levels that a major portion of the body could receive in any one hour a dose in excess of one hundred millirem.

"Individual" means any human being.

"Installation" means a location where for a period of more than thirty days one or more sources of radiation are received, possessed, operated, handled, used, stored or manufactured.

"Mobile source" means a source of radiation used, operated or stored outside an installation. If a mobile source is used routinely in one location, it shall be considered a fixed installation.

"Occupational dose" means exposure of an individual to radiation during or in the course of employment, provided occupational dose shall not be deemed to include any exposure to radiation which was administered for the purpose of diagnosis or therapy by or under supervision of a licensed healing arts practitioner as authorized by law.

"Owner of an installation" means the person owning or having actual control of sources of radiation located within the installation.

"Owner of a mobile source" means the person owning or having actual control thereof.

"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.

"Radiation" means ionizing radiation.

"Radiation area" means any area accessible to individuals in which there exists radiation originating from radioactive materials or other sources of ionizing radiation at such levels that a major portion of the body could receive in any one hour a dose in excess of five millirem or in any five consecutive days a dose in excess of one hundred millirem.

"10 CFR 20" means title 10, chapter I, Code of Federal Regulations – Energy, part 20, "Standards For Protection Against Radiation," Rules and Regulations of the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission. A current copy is on file with the department at Hartford.

(b) Definitions of certain other words and phrases as used in section 19-24-1 to 19-24-14, inclusive, are set forth in other sections including "airborne radioactivity area," defined in section 19-24-8 (a) (4) (A), "personnel monitoring equipment" defined in section 19-24-6 (a) (2), "survey" defined in section 19-24-7 (a) (1), "Dose" (rad, rem) defined in section 19-24-4 (a) (1), (2), and (3) and "units of measurement of radioactivity" defined in section 19-24-4 (b) (1), (2), and (3).

(c) Scientific and technical terms not herein specifically defined shall be used in accordance with definitions recommended by the National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurement.

(Effective October 1, 1982)