Ohio Administrative Code › Title 3701:1 - Radiation Control › Chapter 3701:1-56 - License for Special Nuclear Material › Section 3701:1-56-02 - General license for calibration or reference sources

Current through all regulations passed and filed through July 1, 2024
(A) A general
			 license is hereby issued to any person in Ohio, who holds a specific license
			 issued by the 
								director which authorizes him or her to receive,
			 possess, use and transfer special nuclear material, to receive title to, own,
			 acquire, deliver, receive, possess, use and transfer in accordance with the
			 provisions of paragraphs (B) and (C) of this rule, plutonium in the form of
			 calibration or reference sources.
(B) The general license in paragraph (A) of
			 this rule applies only to calibration or reference sources which have been
			 manufactured or initially transferred in accordance with the specifications
			 contained in a specific license issued pursuant to rule
			 3701:1-56-06
			 of the Administrative Code, or in accordance with the specifications contained
			 in a specific license issued by the United States nuclear regulatory commission
			 or an agreement state, which authorizes manufacture of the sources for
			 distribution to persons generally licensed by the United States nuclear
			 regulatory commission or an agreement state.
(C) The general license in paragraph (A) of
			 this rule is subject to the provisions of rules
			 3701:1-56-04,
			 3701:1-56-09,
			 3701:1-56-10,
			 and Chapters 3701:1-40 and 3701:1-38 of the Administrative Code. In addition,
			 persons who receive title to, own, acquire, deliver, receive, possess, use or
			 transfer one or more calibration or reference sources pursuant to this general
			 license:
(1) Shall not possess at any one
			 time, at any one location of storage or use, more than one hundred eighty-five
			 kilobecquerels (five microcuries) of plutonium in such sources;
(2) Shall not receive, possess, use or
			 transfer such source unless the source, or the storage container, bears a label
			 which includes the following statement or a substantially similar statement
			 which contains the information called for in the following statement:
(a) The receipt, possession, use and transfer
			 of this source, model ____, serial no. ____, are subject to a general license
			 and the regulations of the United States nuclear regulatory commission or of a
			 state with which the commission has entered into an agreement for the exercise
			 of regulatory authority. Do not remove this label.
Caution - radioactive material - this source contains
				plutonium. Do not touch radioactive portion of this source.
(Name of manufacturer or initial transferor)
(b) Sources generally licensed prior to
			 January 19, 1975 may bear labels authorized by the regulations in effect on
			 January 1, 1975 if they are different from the label in paragraph (C)(2)(a) of
			 this rule.
(3) Shall
			 not transfer, abandon, or dispose of such source except by transfer to a person
			 authorized by a license from the director,
			 the United States nuclear regulatory commission, or an agreement state to
			 receive the source.
(4) Shall
			 store such source, except when the source is being used, in a closed container
			 adequately designed and constructed to contain plutonium which might otherwise
			 escape during storage.
(5) Shall
			 not use such source for any purpose other than the calibration of radiation
			 detectors or the standardization of other sources.