Emergency Access [Energy] Law and Legal Definition
According to 10 CFR 62.2 [Title 10 – Energy; Chapter I -- Nuclear Regulatory Commission; Part 62 -- Criteria and Procedures for Emergency Access to Non-Federal and Regional Low-Level Waste Disposal Facilities; Subpart A -- General Provisions], the term emergency access means “access to an operating non-Federal or regional low-level radioactive waste disposal facility or facilities for a period not to exceed 180 days, which is granted by NRC (Nuclear Regulatory Commission) to a generator of low-level radioactive waste who has been denied the use of those facilities.”
