Ohio Administrative Code
Title 3701:1 - Radiation Control
Chapter 3701:1-50 - Packaging and Transportation of Radioactive Material
Section 3701:1-50-23 - Advance notification of shipment of irradiated reactor fuel and nuclear waste
Universal Citation: OH Admin Code 3701:1-50-23
Current through all regulations passed and filed through March 18, 2024
(A)
(1) As
specified in paragraphs (B), (C) and (D) of this rule, each licensee shall
provide advance notification to the governor of a state, or the governor's
designee, of the shipment of licensed material, through, 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 in compliance with section
4163.07 of the Revised
Code.
(2) As specified in
paragraphs (B), (C), and (D) of this rule, each licensee shall provide advance
notification to the tribal official of participating indian tribes referenced
in paragraph (C)(3)(c) of this rule, or the official's designee, of the
shipment of licensed material, within or across the boundary of the indian
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 in compliance with section
4163.07 of the Revised
Code.
(B) Advance notification is also required under this rule for shipments of licensed material, other than irradiated reactor fuel, meeting the following three conditions:
(1) The licensed material is
required by this part to be in type B packaging for transportation;
(2) The licensed material is being
transported to or across a state boundary in route to a disposal facility or to
a collection point for transport to a disposal facility; and
(3) The quantity of licensed material in a
single package exceeds the least of the following:
(a) Three thousand times the
A1 value of the radionuclides as specified in rule
3701:1-50-25 of the
Administrative Code for special form radioactive material;
(b) Three thousand times the
A2 value of the radionuclides as specified in rule
3701:1-50-25 of the
Administrative Code for normal form radioactive material; or
(c) One thousand terabecquerels (twenty-seven
thousand curies).
(C) Each licensee shall submit an advance notification as follows:
(1) The notification
must be made in writing to the office of each appropriate governor or
governor's designee, the office of each appropriate tribal official or tribal
official's designee, and to the director, office of nuclear security and
incident response, United States nuclear regulatory commission.
(2) A notification delivered by mail must be
postmarked at least seven days before the beginning of the seven-day period
during which departure of the shipment is estimated to occur.
(3) A notification delivered by any other
means than mail must reach the office of the governor or of the governor's
designee or the tribal official or tribal official's designee at least four
days before the beginning of the seven-day period during which departure of the
shipment is estimated to occur.
(a) 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 United States nuclear regulatory commission's web site at:
https://scp.nrc.gov/special/designee.pdf.
(b) 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 Material Safety, Security, State, and Tribal Programs,
Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards, United States Nuclear
Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001."
(4) The licensee shall retain a copy of the
notification as a record for three years.
(D) Each advance notification of shipment of nuclear waste must contain the following information:
(1) The name, address, and telephone number
of the shipper, carrier, and receiver of the nuclear waste shipment;
(2) A description of the nuclear waste
contained in the shipment, as specified in the regulation of DOT in
49 C.F.R.
172.202 and
49 C.F.R.
172.203(D) (as in effect on
the effective date of this rule);
(3) The point of origin of the shipment and
the seven-day period during which departure of the shipment is estimated to
occur;
(4) The seven-day period
during which arrival of the shipment at state boundaries, or tribal reservation
boundaries is estimated to occur;
(5) The destination of the shipment, and the
seven-day period during which arrival at the destination of the shipment is
estimated to occur; and
(6) A point
of contact, with a telephone number, for current shipment
information.
(E) Revision notice.
(1) 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, in accordance with this section,
will not be met, shall 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 shall maintain a
record of the name of the individual contacted for three
years.
(F) Cancellation notice.
(1) Each licensee who cancels a
nuclear waste shipment for which advance notification has been sent shall send
a cancellation notice to the offices listed in paragraph (A) of this rule
previously notified, and to the director, office of nuclear security and
incident response, United States nuclear regulatory commission.
(2) The licensee shall state in the notice
that it is a cancellation and identify the advance notification that is being
canceled. The licensee shall retain a copy of the notice as a record for three
years.
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