PUBLIC LAW 100-319—MAY 19, 1988
102 STAT. 473
Federal Government, as defined in Public Law 96-573, or Federal research and development activities. "(1) 'Management' means the reduction, collection, consolidation, storage, packaging or treatment of low-level waste. "(m) 'Operator' means a person who operates a regional facility. "(n) 'Party state' means any state that has become a party in accordance with Article 5 of this compact. "(o) 'Person' means an individual, corporation, partnership or other legal entity, whether public or private. "(p) 'Region' means the combined geographical area within the boundaries of the party states. "(q) 'Regional facility' means a facility within any party state which has been approved by the Commission for the disposal of lowlevel WEiste. "(r) 'Shallow land burial' means the disposal of low-level radioactive waste directly in subsurface trenches without additional confinement in engineered structures or by proper packaging in containers as determined by the law of the host state. "(s) 'Transuranic waste' means low-level waste containing radionuclides with an atomic number greater than 92 which are excluded from shallow-land burial by the Federal Government. "(A) Creation and Organization. Establishment. "(1) Creation—There is hereby created the Appalachian States Low-Level Radioactive Waste Commission. The Commission is hereby created as a body corporate and politic, with succession for the duration of this compact, as an agency and instrumentality of the governments of the respective signatory parties, but separate and distinct from the respective signatory party states. The Commission shall have central offices located in Pennsylvania. "(2) Commission Membership—The Commission shall consist of two voting members from each party state to be appointed according to the laws of each party state and two additioncd voting members from each host state to be appointed according to the laws of each host state. Upon selection of the site of the regional facility, an additional voting member shall be appointed to the Commission who shall be a resident of the county or municipality where the facility is to be located. The appointing authority of each party state shall notify the Commission in writing of the identities of the members and of any alternates. An alternate may vote and act in the member's absence. No member shall have a financial interest in any industry which generates low-level radioactive waste, any low-level radioactive waste regional facility or any related industry for the duration of the member's term. No more than one-half the members and alternates from any party state shall have been employed by or be employed by a low-level wsiste generator or related industry upon appointment to or during their tenure of office; provided, tnat no member shall have been employed by or be employed by a regional facility operator. No member or alternate from any party state shall accept employment from any regional facility operator or brokers for at least three years after leaving office. "(3) Compensation—Members of the Commission and alternates shall serve without compensation from the Commission but may be reimbursed for necessary expenses incurred in and incident to the performance of their duties. "(4) Voting Power—Each Commission member is entitled to one vote. Unless otherwise provided in this compact, affirmative votes by a majority of a host state's members are necessary for the
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