U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Disposal Requirements for Specific and Exempt Licensed Smoke Detectors
HPPOS-150 PDR-9111220094
Title: Disposal Requirements for Specific and Exempt
Licensed Smoke Detectors
See the letter from J. W. N. Hickey to D. L. Tremblay
(Simplex Time Recorder Company) dated October 5, 1981.
Imported smoke detectors possessed under a specific license
must be returned to the manufacturer. A licensee who
possesses detectors distributed as exempt items is exempt
from regulatory requirements regarding the smoke detectors,
and they may be disposed of as ordinary trash.
Your letter to General Counsel dated September 8, 1981 has
been referred to the Division of Fuel Cycle and Material
Safety. In our telephone conversion, you explained that
your company possesses two types of smoke detectors: those
imported, possessed, and distributed in accordance with NRC
License Nos. 20-17584-01 and 20-17584-02E, and those
obtained from an American manufacturer as exempt units.
We agreed that the imported detectors must be returned to
the manufacturer in accordance with your licenses, and that
your letter concerns the domestic units. To the extent
that you possess domestic smoke detectors distributed as
exempt units, you are exempt from any regulatory
requirements. Therefore, you may dispose of these units as
ordinary trash.
Regulatory references: 10 CFR 30.20, 10 CFR 32.26
Subject codes: 3.3, 9.0
Applicability: Byproduct material