Or. Admin. R. 333-102-0032 - Self Luminous Products and Sources Containing Radium-226
(1) A general
license is hereby issued to any person to acquire, receive, possess, use, or
transfer in accordance with the provisions of sections (1), (2), and (3) of
this rule, radium-226 contained in the following products manufactured prior to
November 30, 2007.
(a) Antiquities originally
intended for use by the general public. For the purposes of this subsection,
antiquities mean products originally intended for use by the general public and
distributed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, such as radium emanator
jars, revigators, radium water jars, radon generators, refrigerator cards,
radium bath salts, and healing pads.
(b) Intact timepieces containing greater than
0.037 megabecquerel (1 microcurie), nonintact timepieces, and timepiece hands
and dials no longer installed in timepieces.
(c) Luminous items installed in air , marine,
or land vehicles.
(d) All other
luminous products provided that no more than 100 items are used or stored at
the same location at any one time.
(e) Small radium sources containing no more
than 0.037 megabecquerel (1 microcurie) of radium-226. For the purposes of this
subsection, "small radium sources" means discrete survey instrument check
sources, sources contained in radiation measuring instruments, sources used in
educational demonstrations (such as cloud chambers and spinthariscopes),
electron tubes, lightning rods, ionization sources, static eliminators, or as
designated by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission .
(2) Persons who acquire, receive, possess,
use, or transfer byproduct material under the general license issued in section
(1) of this rule are exempt from the provisions of the rules in this division
and in divisions 105, 113, 115, 116, 117, 120, 121 and 124 of this chapter, to
the extent that the receipt, possession, use, or transfer of byproduct material
is within the terms of the general license; provided, however, that this
exemption shall not be deemed to apply to any such person specifically licensed
under this chapter.
(3) Any person
who acquires, receives, possesses, uses or transfers byproduct material in
accordance with the general license in section (1) of this rule:
(a) Shall notify the Authority should there
be any indication of possible damage to the product so that it appears it could
result in a loss of the radioactive material . A report containing a brief
description of the event, and the remedial action taken, must be furnished to
the Authority within 30 days.
(b)
Shall not abandon products containing radium-226. The product, and any
radioactive material from the product, may only be disposed of according to 10
CFR Part 20.2008 or by transfer to a person authorized by a specific license to
receive the radium-226 in the product or as otherwise approved by the Nuclear
Regulatory Commission.
(d) Shall dispose of products
containing radium-226 at a disposal facility authorized to dispose of
radioactive material in accordance with any federal or state solid or hazardous
waste law, including the Solid Waste Disposal Act, as authorized under the
Energy Policy Act of 2005, by transfer to a person authorized to receive
radium-226 by a specific licensee or equivalent regulations of an Agreement
State, or as otherwise approved by the Authority.
(e) Shall respond to written requests from
the Authority to provide information relating to the general licensee within 30
calendar days of the date of the request, or other time specified in the
request. If the general licensee cannot provide the requested information
within the allotted time, it shall, within that same time period, request a
longer period to supply the information by a written authorization to the
Authority
(f) The general license
in section (1) of this rule does not authorize the manufacture, assembly,
disassembly, repair or import of products containing radium-226, except that
timepieces may be disassembled and repaired.
Notes
Stat. Auth.: ORS 453.635, 453.665
Stats. Implemented: ORS 453.605 - 453.807
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