(a) A general
license to acquire, possess, use and transfer, in accordance with the
provisions of subsections (b) and (c), americium-241 or radium-226 in the form
of calibration or reference sources is hereby issued to any person who holds a
specific license issued by the nuclear regulatory commission that authorizes
the agency to acquire, possess, use, and transfer by-product material, source
material, or special nuclear material.
(b) The general license issued in subsection
(a) shall apply only to calibration or reference sources that have been
manufactured or initially transferred in accordance with the specifications
contained in a specific license issued by the secretary, the nuclear regulatory
commission, or an agreement state.
(c) The general license issued in subsection
(a) shall be subject to the provisions of
K.A.R. 28-35-184a, and to all of the
provisions of parts 4 and 10 of these regulations. In addition, persons who
acquire, possess, use, and transfer one or more calibration or reference
sources pursuant to this general license shall meet the following requirements:
(1) Not possess, at any one time, at any one
location of storage or use, more than 5 microcuries of either ameri-cium-241 or
radium-226 in such sources;
(2) not
receive, possess, use, or transfer such a source unless the source, or the
storage container, bears a label that includes the following statement or a
substantially similar statement that contains the information called for in the
following statement:
"The receipt, possession, use and transfer of this source,
Model____, Serial No.____, are subject to a general license and the
regulations of the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission or of a State
with which the commission has entered into an agreement for the exercise of
regulatory authority. Do not remove this label.
CAUTION-RADIOACTIVE MATERIAL-THIS SOURCE CONTAINS AMERICIUM-241
(or RADIUM-226). DO NOT TOUCH RADIOACTIVE PORTION OF THIS SOURCE.
_________________________________
(Name of manufacturer or initial transferor)";
(3) not transfer, abandon, or dispose of such
source except by transfer to a person authorized by a license issued by the
secretary, the nuclear regulatory commission, or an agreement state to receive
the source;
(4) store such source,
except when the source is being used, in a closed container designed and
constructed to contain either americium-241 or radium-226 that might otherwise
escape during storage; and
(5) not
use the source for any purpose other than the calibration of radiation
detectors or the standardization of other sources.
(d) The general license issued in this
regulation shall not authorize the manufacture, or the importation or
exportation, of calibration or reference sources containing either
americium-241 or radium-226.
Notes
Kan. Admin. Regs.
§
28-35-178e
Authorized by and
implementing
K.S.A. 48-1607; effective, T-86-37, Dec. 11, 1985;
effective May 1, 1986; amended March 18,
2011.
