Section 2950.20  Definitions

As used in this Part, the following terms shall mean:

            "Act" means the Illinois Low-Level Radioactive Waste Management Act [420 ILCS 20/10.2].

            "Chairman" means the Chairman of the Low-Level Radioactive Waste Task Group.

            "Document" means notice, affidavit, memorandum, brief, petition, or other paper or combination of papers required or permitted to be submitted.

            "FOIA" means the Illinois Freedom of Information Act [5 ILCS 140 et seq.].

            "IDNS" means the Illinois Department of Nuclear Safety.

            "Material" means any substantive issue that is of consequence to the determination of a proceeding.

            "Participant" means any person, not including the Task Group members, who takes part in any matter pending before the Task Group.  A person becomes a participant in any of several ways, including, but not limited to, submitting a comment, being added to the notice list of a particular proceeding, or testifying at a meeting or hearing.

            "Person" includes, but is not limited to, any individual, partnership, company, corporation, political subdivision, or state agency.

            "Task Group" means the members of the Low-Level Radioactive Waste Task Group.

            "Undue delay" means delay which is unwarranted, unjustified, improper, or is more delay than necessary.

(Source:  Amended at 18 Ill. Reg. 8684, effective May 25, 1994)