42 U.S.C. § 7911: Definitions

The term “Secretary” means the Secretary of Energy. The term “Commission” means the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. The term “Administrator” means the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency. The term “Indian tribe” means any tribe, band, clan, group, pueblo, or community of Indians recognized as eligible for services provided by the Secretary of the Interior to Indians. The term “person” means any individual, association, partnership, corporation, firm, joint venture, trust, government entity, and any other entity, except that such term does not include any Indian or Indian tribe. such site was owned or controlled as of January 1, 1978 , or is thereafter owned or controlled, by any Federal agency, or a license (issued by the Commission or its predecessor agency under the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 [ 42 U.S.C. 2011 et seq.] or by a State as permitted under section 274 of such Act [ 42 U.S.C. 2021 ]) for the production at such site of any uranium or thorium product derived from ores is in effect on January 1, 1978 , or is issued or renewed after such date; and is in the vicinity of such site, and is determined by the Secretary, in consultation with the Commission, to be contaminated with residual radioactive materials derived from such site. waste (which the Secretary determines to be radioactive) in the form of tailings resulting from the processing of ores for the extraction of uranium and other valuable constituents of the ores; and other waste (which the Secretary determines to be radioactive) at a processing site which relate to such processing, including any residual stock of unprocessed ores or low-grade materials. The term “tailings” means the remaining portion of a metal-bearing ore after some or all of such metal, such as uranium, has been extracted. The term “Federal agency” includes any executive agency as defined in section 105 of title 5 . The term “United States” means the 48 contiguous States and Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, the District of Columbia, and the territories and possessions of the United States.