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Revising Source Material Regulations
The Commission is developing a more risk-informed and coherent set of
requirements for licensing source material, including possible revisions
to 10 CFR 40.13(a). In order to accomplish this, the Commission has
requested that the staff complete three distinct tasks:
- Begin a Jurisdictional
Working Group to bring together State and Federal regulatory agencies
to explore the best approach to delineate the responsibilities of the
NRC and the other agencies in the group with regard to low-level source
material (as defined in 10 CFR Part 40) or materials containing less
than 0.05% uranium and/or thorium;
- Begin a Rulemaking Working Group to develop a rulemaking plan to improve
the control of distribution of source material to exempt persons and
to general licensees; and
- Complete a rulemaking to incorporate the resolution of PRM-40-27 in order to make Part 40 more risk-informed, and initiate the development of a proposed rule to amend 40.51(b)(3) and (4) to require prior Commission approval for transfers to persons exempt under 40.13(a).
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