Wyoming Administrative Code › Agency 020 - Environmental Quality, Dept. of › Sub-Agency 0013 - Uranium Recovery › Chapter 4 - LICENSING REQUIREMENTS FOR SOURCE AND BYPRODUCT MATERIAL › Section 4-6 - Exemptions from Regulatory Requirements

Current through July 13, 2024
(a) Any person is
				exempt from this Chapter to the extent that such person receives title to,
				acquires, owns, possesses, uses, or transfers source material in any chemical
				mixture, compound, solution, or alloy in which the source material is by weight
				less than one-twentieth of one percent (0.05 percent) of the mixture, compound,
				solution, or alloy. The exemption contained in this paragraph does not apply to
				Australian-obligated source material, nor does it include byproduct materials
				as defined in these rules.
(b) Any
				person is exempt from this Chapter to the extent that such person receives,
				possesses, uses, or transfers unrefined and unprocessed ore containing source
				material provided that, except as authorized in specific license, such person
				shall not refine or process such ores.
(c) No person may introduce source or
				byproduct material into a product or material either knowing or having reason
				to believe that it will be transferred to persons exempt under this
				Chapter.
(d) The Department may,
				upon its own initiative or the application of an interested person, grant such
				exemptions from the requirements of this Chapter as authorized by law and, as
				determined by the Department, will not endanger life, property, and is
				otherwise in the public interest.
(e) Common and contract carriers, freight
				forwarders, warehousemen, and the United States Postal Service are exempt from
				the requirements of this Chapter and the requirements set forth in Section 81
				of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954,
				42 U.S.C. §§
										2011
et seq
., as amended to
				the extent that they transport or store source, and byproduct material in the
				regular course of carriage for another or storage incident thereto.
(f) Except to the extent that the Department
				of Energy's (DOE) facilities or activities, subject to licensing pursuant to
				Section 202 of the Energy Reorganization Act of 1974 (42
				U.S.C. §
										5842.), are involved, any prime
				contractor of the DOE is exempt from the requirements for a license set forth
				in 81 and 82 of the Act (42 U.S.C. §
										2111 and 42 U.S.C. § 2112) and from this
				Chapter to the extent that such contractor, under his prime contract with the
				DOE manufactures, produces, transfers, receives, acquires, owns, possesses, or
				uses byproduct material for:
(i) The
				performance of work for the DOE at a United States Government owned or
				controlled site, including the transportation of byproduct material to or from
				such site and the performance of contract services during temporary
				interruptions of such transportation;
(ii) Research in, or development,
				manufacture, storage, testing, or transportation of, atomic weapons or
				components thereof; or
(iii) The
				use or operation of nuclear reactors or other nuclear devices in a United
				States Government owned vehicle or vessel.