Subpart 1.
Advanced notification required.
As specified in subparts 2 and 3, each licensee must provide
advance notification to the commissioner and the governor of a state, or the
governor's designee, of the shipment of licensed material in a category 1
quantity, through or across the boundary of the state, before the transport or
delivery to a carrier for transport of the licensed material outside the
confines of the licensee's facility or other place of use or storage.
Subp. 2.
Procedures for
submitting advance notification.
A. The
notification must be made to the commissioner and to the office of each
appropriate governor or governors designee. The contact information, including
telephone numbers and mailing addresses, of governors and governors designees,
is available on the NRC website at
https://scp.nrc.gov/special/designee.pdf.
A list of the contact information is also available upon request from the
Director, Division of Materials Safety, Security, State, and Tribal Programs,
Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001. Notifications to the commissioner must
be to the Radioactive Materials Unit, Minnesota Department of Health, 625
Robert Street N, P.O. Box 64975, St. Paul, MN 55164-0975, or e-mail at
health.ram@state.mn.us.
B. A notification delivered by mail
must be postmarked at least seven days before transport of the shipment
commences at the shipping facility.
C. A notification delivered by any means
other than mail must reach the commissioner at least four days before the
transport of the shipment commences and must reach the office of the governor
or the governor's designee at least four days before transport of a shipment
within or through the state.
Subp.
3.
Information to be furnished in advance notification of
shipment.
Each advance notification of shipment of category 1
quantities of radioactive material must contain the following information, if
available at the time of notification:
A. the name, address, and telephone number of
the shipper, carrier, and receiver of the category 1 radioactive
material;
B. the license numbers of
the shipper and receiver;
C. a
description of the radioactive material contained in the shipment, including
the radionuclides and quantity;
D.
the point of origin of the shipment and the estimated time and date that
shipment will commence;
E. the
estimated time and date that the shipment is expected to enter each state along
the route;
F. the estimated time
and date of arrival of the shipment at the destination; and
G. a point of contact, with a telephone
number, for current shipment information.
Subp. 4.
Revision notice.
A. The licensee must provide any information
not previously available at the time of the initial notification, as soon as
the information becomes available but not later than commencement of the
shipment, to the governor of the state or the governor's designee and to the
commissioner.
B. A licensee must
promptly notify the governor of the state or the governor's designee of any
changes to the information provided under item A and subpart 3. The licensee
must also immediately notify the commissioner of any such changes.
Subp. 5.
Cancellation
notice.
Each licensee who cancels a shipment for which advance
notification has been sent must send a cancellation notice to the commissioner
and to the governor of each state or to the governors designee previously
notified. The licensee must send the cancellation notice before the shipment
would have commenced or as soon thereafter as possible. The licensee must state
in the notice that it is a cancellation and identify the advance notification
that is being canceled.
Subp.
6.
Records.
The licensee must retain a copy of the advance notification
and any revision and cancellation notices as a record for three years.
Subp. 7.
Protection of
information.
State officials, state employees, and other individuals,
whether or not licensees of the commissioner, the NRC, or an agreement state,
who receive schedule information of the kind specified in subpart 3 must
protect that information against unauthorized disclosure as specified in part
4731.8055, subpart 4.
