Sec. 16-8a-1. Definitions

For the purposes of Section 16-8a-1 through 16-8a-6 of the regulations:

(a) "Company" means a public service company as defined in Section 16-1 of the General Statutes of Connecticut;

(b) "Holding Company" means any holding company as defined in Section 16-47 of the General Statutes of Connecticut;

(c) "Licensee" means any federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission licensee operating a nuclear power generating facility in the State of Connecticut;

(d) "Person" means one or more idnividuals, firms, corporations, joint ventures, partnerships, associations, cooperative associations, business trusts, legal representatives, or any organized groups of persons; and shall include any trustees, receivers, assignees or personal representatives thereof;

(e) "Employer" means any company, holding company, or licensee, or any contractor or subcontractor directly or indirectly providing goods or services to a company, holding company, or licensee;

(f) "Employee" means any person engaged in service to an employer;

(g) "Department" means the Department of Public Utility Control;

(h) "Facility" means a nuclear power generating facility in the State of Connecticut;

(i) "Complaint" means the transmission of facts and information to the Department by an employee having knowledge of any matter involving substantial misfeasance, malfeasance or nonfeasance, or of the discharge, discipline or other penalizing of, or threat of retaliatory action against a person reporting the misfeasance, malfeasance or nonfeasance, in the management of a company or facility;

(j) "Complainant" means an employee who transmits a complaint to the Department; and

(k) "Equivalent position" means a position that provides the same level of pay and benefits, and the same or similar potential for career advancement for the employee as the employee's former position. Whenever possible and practical the equivalent position shall be in the same department, unit and location as the former position.

(Effective May 22, 1992; Amended July 10, 1998; Amended May 30, 2000)