Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 12, December 20, 2024
A. Any physician
licensed by the state of Louisiana to dispense drugs in the practice of
medicine is exempt from LAC 33:XV.1504 with respect to transport by the
physician of licensed material for use in the practice of medicine. However,
any physician operating under this exemption must be licensed under LAC
33:XV.Chapter 7.
B. A licensee is
exempt from all the requirements of this Chapter with respect to shipment or
carriage of the following low-level materials:
1. natural material and ores containing
naturally occurring radionuclides that are either in their natural state, or
have only been processed for purposes other than for the extraction of the
radionuclides, and which are not intended to be processed for use of these
radionuclides, provided the activity concentration of the material does not
exceed 10 times the applicable radionuclide activity concentration values
specified in Table A-2 or Table A-3 of 10 CFR Part 71, Appendix A, incorporated
by reference in LAC 33:XV.1599.A;
2. materials for which the activity
concentration is not greater than the activity concentration values specified
in Table A-2 or Table A-3 of 10 CFR Part 71, Appendix A, incorporated by
reference in LAC 33:XV.1599.A, or for which the consignment activity is not
greater than the limit for an exempt consignment found in Table A-2 or Table
A-3 of 10 CFR Part 71, Appendix A, incorporated by reference in LAC
33:XV.1599.A; or
3. Non-radioactive
solid objects with radioactive substances present on any surfaces in quantities
not in excess of the levels cited in the definition of
contamination in LAC 33:XV.1503.A.
C. Fissile material meeting at least one of
the following requirements is exempt from classification as fissile material
and from the fissile material package standards of
10 CFR
71.55 and
71.59,
but is subject to all other requirements of this Chapter, except as noted:
1. an individual package containing 2 grams
or less of fissile material;
2.
individual or bulk packaging containing 15 grams or less of fissile material
provided the package has at least 200 grams of solid nonfissile material for
every gram of fissile material. Lead, beryllium, graphite, and hydrogenous
material enriched in deuterium may be present in the package, but must not be
included in determining the required mass for solid nonfissile
material;
3. low concentrations of
solid fissile material commingled with solid nonfissile material, provided that
there is at least 2000 grams of solid nonfissile material for every gram of
fissile material, and there is no more than 180 grams of fissile material
distributed within 360 kg of contiguous nonfissile material. Lead, beryllium,
graphite, and hydrogenous material enriched in deuterium may be present in the
package, but must not be included in determining the required mass of solid
nonfissile material;
4. uranium
enriched in uranium-235 to a maximum of 1 percent by weight, and with total
plutonium and uranium-233 content of up to 1 percent of the mass of
uranium-235, provided that the mass of any beryllium, graphite, and hydrogenous
material enriched in deuterium constitutes less than 5 percent of the uranium
mass, and that the fissile material is distributed homogeneously and does not
form a lattice arrangement within the package;
5. liquid solutions of uranyl nitrate
enriched in uranium-235 to a maximum of 2 percent by mass, with a total
plutonium and uranium-233 content not exceeding 0.002 percent of the mass of
uranium, and with a minimum nitrogen to uranium atomic ratio (N/U) of 2. The
material must be contained in at least a U.S. DOT Type A package; and
6. packages containing, individually, a total
plutonium mass of not more than 1000 grams, of which not more than 20 percent
by mass may consist of plutonium-239, plutonium-241, or any combination of
these radionuclides.
AUTHORITY NOTE:
Promulgated in accordance with
R.S.
30:2104(B) and
2113.
