La. Admin. Code tit. 33 § XV-1403
Advantageous Attribute or Advantageous to the Material or Product- the radioactivity of the product is necessary to the use of the product.
Beneficiating- the processing of materials or products for the purpose of altering the chemical or physical properties to improve the quality, purity, or assay of a desired product or material.
Confirmatory Survey- a survey of potentially contaminated land, equipment, or sites in order to establish, with reasonable certainty, the absence or magnitude of NORM contamination.
Container- any portable device in which a material is stored, transported, treated, disposed of, or otherwise handled. This does not include tubular goods or drill pipe for labeling purposes under these regulations.
Decontamination- the cleaning process of removing or reducing residual radioactivity from equipment, buildings, structures, and land owned, possessed, or controlled by other persons to a level that permits release of equipment, buildings, structures, and land for unrestricted use or termination of license.
Disposal- the discharge, injection, or placing of regulated NORM into or on land so that such material is isolated from the biosphere inhabited by man and containing his food chain.
Equipment-any apparatus associated with the potential for or actual enhancement of NORM. Examples include, but are not limited to, tubular goods, piping, vessels, wellheads, separators, and condensers. Equipment does not include biodegradable material.
Location- NORM contaminated site(s), such as a commingling facility, a wellhead, a tank battery, any other type of production facility for oil or gas, a warehouse, or other type of NORM storage area for equipment or drums, pipeline, land, or pipeyard. A location may contain several sites.
Naturally Occurring Radioactive Material (NORM)- any nuclide that is radioactive in its natural physical state (i.e., not man-made), but not including source, byproduct, or special nuclear material.
Nonhazardous Oilfield Waste (NOW)-a type of exploration and production waste; solid material produced from oil and gas related activities that contain exempt quantities of hazardous components according to the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA).
NORM Waste-any solid, liquid, or gaseous material or combination of materials, excluding source material, special nuclear material and by-product material, that:
On-Site Maintenance- any activity involving a site or equipment that subjects an individual to potential inhalation or ingestion of NORM. This includes, but is not limited to, performing maintenance on vessels, tanks, tubular goods, or water treatment systems, or the clearing of pipe lines to maintain oil and gas production.
Pile- any non-containerized accumulation of solid, nonflowing NORM waste.
Product- anything produced, made, manufactured, refined, or beneficiated.
Recycling- a process by which materials that have served their intended use are collected, separated, or processed and returned to use in the form of raw materials in the production of new products. Recycling shall not include the use of a material in a manner that constitutes disposal.
Site- any part of a location, land area (e.g., well site, pipeyard, scrapyard, production pit, treater/disposal facility, landfarm, landfill), equipment (each wellhead, each tank, each vessel, each separator, or any other apparatus associated with a process that has technologically enhanced naturally occurring radioactive material) or other appurtenances in a facility that contain technologically enhanced NORM, both active and inactive.
Storage- the containment of NORM waste in such a manner as not to constitute disposal of NORM waste.
Tank- a stationary device designed to contain an accumulation of NORM waste that is constructed primarily of nonearthen materials (e.g., wood, concrete, steel, plastic) that provide structural support and integrity.
Technologically Enhanced Natural Radioactive Material (hereinafter referred to as TENR)- natural sources of radiation which would not normally appear without some technological activity not expressly designed to produce radiation.
Temporary Jobsite- any location where services subject to specific licensure are performed, other than the authorized location(s) listed in the specific license.
Treatment- any method, technique, or process designed to change the physical or radiological character or composition of any NORM or NORM waste so as to render it less radioactive, safer for transport, amenable for recovery, amenable for storage, reduced in volume, or changed in concentration.
Unrestricted Use- any use that does not have controls in place to protect an individual member of the public from exposure to radiation and radioactive material.
La. Admin. Code tit. 33, § XV-1403