Current through Register Vol. 43, No. 52, December 26, 2024
(a) A general license is hereby issued
authorizing commercial and industrial firms, research, educational, and medical
institutions, and federal, state, and local government agencies to receive,
possess, use, and transfer uranium and thorium, in their natural isotopic
concentrations and in the form of depleted uranium, for research, development,
educational, commercial, or operational purposes in any of the following forms
and quantities:
(1) Uranium and thorium in the
following quantities and forms:
(A) Not more
than 1.5 kg (3.3 lb) of uranium and thorium in dispersible forms, including
gases, liquids, and powders, at any one time. All material processed by the
general licensee that alters the chemical or physical form of the material
containing source material shall be accounted for as a dispersible form. A
person authorized to possess, use, and transfer source material under this
paragraph shall not receive more than a total of 7 kg (15.4 lb) of uranium and
thorium in any one calendar year; and
(B) not more than 7 kg (15.4 lb) of uranium
and thorium at any one time. A person authorized to possess, use, and transfer
source material under this paragraph shall not receive more than 70 kg (154 lb)
of uranium and thorium in any one calendar year. A person shall not alter the
chemical or physical form of the source material possessed under this paragraph
unless the source material is accounted for under the limits of paragraph
(a)(1);
(2) not more
than 7 kg (15.4 lb) of uranium, removed during the treatment of drinking water,
at any one time. A person shall not remove more than 70 kg (154 lb) of uranium
from drinking water during a calendar year under this paragraph; or
(3) not more than 7 kg (15.4 lb) of uranium
and thorium at laboratories for the purpose of determining the concentration of
uranium and thorium contained within the material being analyzed at any one
time. A person authorized to possess, use, and transfer source material under
this paragraph shall not receive more than 70 kg (154 lb) of source material in
any one calendar year.
(b)
(1)
Each person who receives, possesses, uses, or transfers source material in
accordance with the general license in subsection (a) shall be prohibited from
the following:
(A) Administering source
material, or the radiation from the source material, either externally or
internally, to human beings except as authorized by a specific license issued
by the department;
(B) abandoning
the source material. Source material may be disposed of as follows:
(i) A cumulative total of 0.5 kg (1.1 lb) of
source material in a solid, nondispersible form may be transferred each
calendar year by a person authorized to receive, possess, use, and transfer
source material under the general license to persons receiving the material for
permanent disposal. The recipient of source material transferred under this
paragraph shall be exempt from the requirements to obtain a license under part
3 of these regulations to the extent that the source material is permanently
disposed of. This exemption shall not apply to any person who is in possession
of source material under a specific license issued by the department;
or
(ii) source material may be
disposed in accordance with
K.A.R.
28-35-190a; and
(C) exporting the source material to another
country except in accordance with a license issued by the nuclear regulatory
commission (NRC).
(2)
Each person specified in paragraph (b)(1) shall respond to each written request
from the department to provide information relating to the general license
within 30 calendar days of the date of the request or other time specified in
the request. If the person cannot provide the requested information within the
required time, the person shall, within the same time period, request a longer
period to supply the information by providing the department with a written
justification for the request.
(c) Each person who receives, possesses,
uses, or transfers source material in accordance with subsection (a) shall
minimize contamination of the facility and the environment. When activities
involving source material are permanently ceased at any site, if evidence of
significant contamination is identified, the general licensee shall notify the
department about the contamination and may consult with the department
regarding the appropriateness of sampling and restoration activities to ensure
that any contamination or residual source material remaining at the site where
source material was used under this general license is not likely to result in
exposures that exceed the limits in these regulations.
(d) Each person who receives, possesses,
uses, or transfers source material in accordance with the general license
granted in subsection (a) shall be exempt from parts 4 and 10 of these
regulations to the extent that the receipt, possession, use, and transfer are
within the terms of this general license, except that the person shall meet the
requirements of paragraph (b)(1)(B) and subsection (c). This exemption shall
not apply to any person who also holds a specific license issued by the
department.
(e) No person shall
initially transfer or distribute source material to persons generally licensed
under paragraph (a) (1) or (2) or equivalent regulations of an agreement state,
unless authorized by a specific license issued by the NRC or equivalent
provisions of an agreement state. This subsection shall not apply to analytical
laboratories returning any processed sample to the client who initially
provided the sample.
