(C) The following categories of actions are
considered categorical exclusions:
(1)
Issuance of an amendment to a license for a radioactive material waste disposal
site or an amendment to a radioactive materials license if required by Chapter
3701:1-54 of the Administrative Code which are administrative, organizational,
or procedural in nature, or which result in a change in process operations or
equipment, provided that:
(a) There is no
significant change in the type or significant increase in the amount of any
effluent that may be released offsite;
(b) There is no significant increase in
individual or cumulative occupational radiation exposure;
(c) There is no significant construction
impact; and
(d) There is no
significant increase in the potential for or consequences from radiological
accidents.
(2) Issuance,
amendment or renewal of radioactive materials licenses issued pursuant to this
chapter and Chapters 3701:1-44, 3701:1-46, 3701:1-48, 3701:1-49, 3701:1-52,
3701:1-56 and 3701:1-58 of the Administrative Code affecting general licenses,
manufacture and distribution, industrial radiography, well logging,
irradiators, medical use, source material, special nuclear material of less
than critical mass authorizing the following:
(a) Distribution of radioactive materials and
devices or products containing radioactive material to general licensees and to
persons exempt from licensing;
(b)
Distribution of radiopharmaceuticals, generators, reagent kits, or sealed
sources to persons licensed in accordance with Chapter 3701:1-58 of the
Administrative Code;
(c) Nuclear
pharmacies;
(d) Medical and
veterinary facilities;
(e) Use of
radioactive materials for research and development and for educational
purposes;
(f) Industrial
radiography;
(g)
Irradiators;
(h) Use of sealed
sources or gauging devices, analytical instruments or other devices containing
sealed sources;
(i) Use of uranium
as shielding material in containers or devices;
(j) Possession of radioactive material
incident to performing services such as installation, maintenance, leak tests
and calibration;
(k) Use of sealed
sources or radioactive tracers in well-logging procedures;
(l) Acceptance of packaged radioactive wastes
from others for transfer to a licensed disposal facility, provided that the
interim storage period for any package does not exceed one hundred eighty days
and the total possession limit for all packages held in interim storage at the
same time does not exceed 1.85 terabecquerels (fifty curies);
(m) Manufacturing or processing of source,
radioactive, or special nuclear materials
for distribution to other
licensees, except processing of source material for extraction of rare earth
and other metals and processing of radioactive material for extraction of
metals;
(n) Nuclear
laundries;
(o) Possession,
manufacturing, processing, shipment, testing, or other use of depleted uranium
military munitions; or
(p) Any use
of source, radioactive, or special
nuclear material not listed in paragraphs (C)(2)(a) to (C)(2)(o) of this rule
which involves quantities and forms of source, radioactive, or special nuclear
material of quantities less than a critical mass, similar to those listed in
paragraphs (C)(2)(a) to (C)(2)(o) of this rule.