Current through Register Vol. 24-18, September 15, 2024
(1) A
general license shall be issued to any person to acquire, receive, possess,
use, or transfer, in accordance with the provisions of subsections (2), (3),
and (4) of this section, radium-226 contained in:
(a) Antiquities originally intended for use
by the general public. For the purposes of this subsection, antiquities mean
products originally intended for use by the general public and distributed in
the late 19th and early 20th centuries, such as radium emanator jars,
revigators, radium water jars, radon generators, refrigerator cards, radium
bath salts, and healing pads.
(b)
Intact timepieces containing greater than 0.037 megabecquerel (1 microcurie),
nonintact timepieces, and timepiece hands and dials no longer installed in
timepieces.
(c) Luminous items
installed in air, marine, or land vehicles.
(d) All other luminous products, provided
that no more than one hundred items are used or stored at the same location at
any one time.
(e) Small radium
sources containing no more than 0.037 megabecquerel (1 microcurie) of
radium-226. For the purposes of this subsection, "small radium sources" means
discrete survey instrument check sources, sources contained in radiation
measuring instruments, sources used in educational demonstrations (such as
cloud chambers and spinthariscopes), electron tubes, lightning rods, ionization
sources, static eliminators, or as designated by the department.
(2) Persons who acquire, receive,
possess, use, or transfer radioactive material under the general license issued
in subsection (1) of this section are exempt from the provisions of chapters
246-221 and 246-222 WAC to the extent that such receipt, possession, use, or
transfer is within the terms of such general license. This exemption shall not
apply to any person who is also in possession of radioactive mate-rial under a
specific license issued under chapter 246-235 WAC.
(3) Any person who acquires, receives,
possesses, uses, or transfers radioactive material in accordance with the
general license in subsection (1) of this section:
(a) Shall notify the department should there
be any indication of possible damage to the product so that it appears it could
result in a loss of the radioactive material. A report containing a brief
description of the event, and the remedial action taken, must be furnished to
the department within thirty days.
(b) Shall not abandon products containing
radium-226. The product, and any radioactive material from the product, may
only be transferred or disposed in accordance with chapter 246-232 WAC, or as
otherwise approved by the department.
(c) Shall not export products containing
radium-226 except in accordance with chapter 246-231 WAC.
(d) Shall dispose of products containing
radium-226 at a disposal facility authorized to dispose of radioactive material
in accordance with any federal or state solid or hazardous waste law, including
the Solid Waste Disposal Act, as authorized under the Energy Policy Act of
2005, by transfer to a person authorized to receive radium-226 by a specific
license issued under chapter 246-235 WAC, or equivalent regulations of an
agreement state, or as otherwise approved by the NRC.
(e) Shall respond to written requests from
the department to provide information relating to the general license within
thirty calendar days of the date of the request, or other time specified in the
request. If the general licensee cannot provide the requested information
within the allotted time, it shall, within that same time period, request a
longer period to supply the information by providing a written justification
for the request.
(4) The
general license in subsection (1) of this section does not authorize the
manufacture, assembly, disassembly, repair, or import of products containing
radium-226, except that timepieces may be disassembled and repaired.
Statutory Authority:
RCW
70.98.050 and
70.98.080. 09-06-003, §
246-233-012, filed 2/18/09, effective
3/21/09.
