Current through September 17, 2024
020.01
REQUIREMENTS.
As specified in 180 NAC 13-020.02, 13-20.03 and 13-020.04, each licensee must
provide advance notification to:
(A) The
governor of a State, or the governor's designee, of the shipment of licensed
material, within or across the boundary of the State, before the transport, or
delivery to a carrier, for transport, of licensed material outside the confines
of the licensee's plant or other place of use or storage.
(B) The Tribal official of participating
Tribes referenced in 180 NAC 13-020.03, or the official's designee, of the
shipment of licensed material, within or across the boundary of the Tribe's
reservation, before the transport, or delivery to a carrier, for transport, of
licensed material outside the confines of the licensee's plant or other place
of use or storage.
020.02
CONDITIONS.
Advance notification is also required in 180 NAC 13 for the shipment of
licensed material, other than irradiated fuel, meeting the following three
conditions:
(A) The nuclear waste is required
to be in Type B packaging for transportation;
(B) The nuclear waste is being transported
into, within, or through, a state enroute to a disposal facility or to a
collection point for transport to a disposal facility; and
(C) The quantity of licensed material in a
single package exceeds:
(i) 3000 times the
A1 value of the radionuclides as specified in Appendix
13-A, Table I for special form radioactive material;
(ii) 3000 times the A2
value of the radionuclides as specified in Appendix 13-A, Table I for normal
form radioactive material; or
(iii)
1000 TBq (27,000 Ci).
020.03
REQUIRED
INFORMATION. Each advance notification required by 180 NAC
13-020.01 must contain the following information:
(A) The name, address, and telephone number
of the shipper, carrier, and receiver of the shipment;
(B) Description of the nuclear waste
contained in the shipment as required by
49 CFR
172.202 and
172.203(d);
(C) Point of origin of the shipment and the
seven day period during which departure of the shipment is estimated to
occur;
(D) The seven day period
during which arrival of the shipment at state boundaries or Tribal reservation
boundaries is estimated to occur;
(E) Destination of the shipment, and the
seven day period during which arrival of the shipment is estimated to occur;
and
(F) Point of contact with a
telephone number for current shipment information.
020.04
SUBMISSION
PROCEDURES. The notification required by 180 NAC 13-020.01 must:
(A) Be made in writing to:
(i) The office of each appropriate governor,
or governor's designee;
(ii) The
office of each appropriate Tribal official or Tribal official's designee
and
(iii) To the U.S. Nuclear
Regulatory Director, Division of Nuclear Security, Office of Nuclear Security
and Incident Response;
(B) Be postmarked at least seven days before
the beginning of the seven day period during which departure of the shipment is
estimated to occur if delivered by mail.
(C) Reach the office of the governor, or
governor's designee, or the Tribal official or Tribal official's designee at
least four days before the beginning of the seven day period which departure of
the shipment is estimated to occur, if the notification is delivered by any
other means than mail.
(i) Contact information
for each State, including telephone and mailing addresses of governors and
governors' designees, and participating Tribes, including telephone and mailing
addresses of Tribal officials and Tribal official's designees, is available on
the NRC Web site at:
https://scp.nrc.gov/special/designee.pdf.
(ii) A list of the names and mailing
addresses of the governors' designees and Tribal officials' designees of
participating Tribes is available on 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.
(iii) The licensee
must retain a copy of the notification as a record for 3 years.
020.05
REVISION NOTICE. A licensee who finds that schedule
information previously furnished to a governor or governor's designee or a
Tribal official or Tribal official's designee, according to 180 NAC 13-020,
will not be met, must telephone a responsible individual in the office of the
governor of the State or of the governor's designee or the Tribal official or
the Tribal official's designee and inform that individual of the extent of the
delay beyond the schedule originally reported. The licensee must maintain a
record of the name of the individual contacted for three years.
020.06
CANCELLATION
NOTICE. Each licensee who cancels an irradiated reactor fuel or
nuclear waste shipment for which advance notification has been sent must:
(A) Send a cancellation notice to the
governor of each State or to the governor's designee previously notified, each
Tribal official or to the Tribal official's designee previously notified, and
the Director, Office of Nuclear Security and Incident Response;
(B) State in the notice that it is a
cancellation and identify the advance notification being canceled;
and
(C) Retain a copy of the notice
for three years.
