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§ 31.8 Americium-241 and radium-226 in the form of calibration or reference sources.(a) A general license is issued to those
persons listed in this section to own,
receive, acquire, possess, use, and (1) Any person in a non-Agreement State who holds a specific license issued under this chapter which authorizes receipt, possession, use, and transfer of byproduct material, source material, or special nuclear material; and (2) Any Government agency, as defined in § 30.4 of this chapter, which holds a specific license issued under this chapter which authorizes it to receive, possess, use, and transfer byproduct material, source material, or special nuclear material. (b) The general license in paragraph
(a) of this section 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 under § 32.57 of this
chapter or in accordance with the
specifications contained in a specific
license issued to the manufacturer by an
Agreement State which authorizes
manufacture of the sources for
distribution to persons generally (c) The general license in paragraph (a) of this section is subject to the provisions of §§30.14(d), 30.34 (a) to (e), and 30.50 to 30.63 of this chapter, and to the provisions of parts 19, 20, and 21, of this chapter. In addition, persons who own, receive, acquire, possess, use, and transfer one or more calibration or reference sources under this general license: (1) Shall not possess at any one time,
at any one location of storage or use,
more than 0.185 megabecquerel (5 (2) Shall not receive, possess, use, or
transfer a source unless the source, or
the storage container, bears a label
(3) Shall not transfer, abandon, or
dispose of a source except by transfer to
a person authorized by a license issued (4) Shall store a source, except when
the source is being used, in a closed
container adequately designed and (5) Shall not use a source for any purpose other than the calibration of radiation detectors or the standardization of other sources. (d) This general license does not authorize the manufacture or import of calibration or reference sources containing americium-241 or radium-226. (e) This general license does not authorize the export of calibration or reference sources containing americium-241 or radium-226. [30 FR 8189, June 26, 1965, as amended at 38 FR 22220, Aug. 17, 1973; 40 FR 8785, Mar. 3, 1975; 42 FR 28896, June 6, 1977; 43 FR 6922, Feb. 17, 1978; 56 FR 40767, Aug. 16, 1991; 72 FR 55927, Oct. 1, 2007] 1 Sources generally licensed under this section before January 19, 1975, may bear labels authorized by the regulations in effect on January 1, 1975. Sources containing radium-226 generally licensed under this section and manufactured before November 30, 2007 shall be labeled in accordance with the applicable State regulations at the time of manufacture or import. |
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