Section 325.5088. Calibration and reference sources.

(1) This subrule is a general license issued to the following persons to own, receive, acquire, possess, use and transfer, in accordance with subrules (4) and (5), americium- 241 in the form of calibration or reference sources:

(a)   A person who holds a specific license issued by the department which authorizes him to receive, possess, use and transfer radioactive material.

(b)    A person who holds a specific license issued by the NRC which authorizes him to receive, possess, use and transfer special nuclear material.

(2)    This subrule is a general license issued to own, receive, acquire, possess, use and transfer plutonium in the form of calibration or reference sources in accordance with subrules (4) and (5) to a person who holds a specific license issued by the department which authorizes him to receive, possess, use and transfer radioactive material.

(3)    This subrule is a general license issued to own, receive, acquire, possess, use and transfer radium in the form of calibration or reference sources in accordance with subrules (4),

(5)   and (6) as related to states or agencies which license radium, if the source does not exceed 0.1

µCi of radium.

(4)    The general licenses in subrules (1) and (2) apply only to calibration or reference sources which have been manufactured in accordance with the specifications contained in a specific license issued to the manufacturer or importer of the sources by the NRC pursuant to section 32.57 of 10 CFR Part 32 or section 70.39 of 10 CFR Part 70, or which have been manufactured in accordance with the specifications contained in a specific license issued to the manufacturer by the department or an agreement state pursuant to licensing requirements equivalent to those contained in Section 32.57 of 10 CFR Part 32 or Section 70.39 of 10 CFR Part 70 of the regulations of the NRC.

(5)   The general licenses provided in subrules (1), (2) and (3) are subject to rules 41 to 43, 119, 123 and 124 and part 5. In addition, persons who own, receive, acquire, possess, use or transfer one or more calibration or reference sources pursuant to these general licenses:

(a)    Shall not possess at any 1 time, at any 1 location of storage or use, more than 5 microcuries of americium-241 and 5 microcuries of plutonium in the sources.

(b)      Shall not receive, possess, use or transfer the 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:

The receipt, possession, use and transfer of this source, Model                 , Serial No.                , are subject to a general license and the regulations of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission or of a state with which the Commission has entered into an agreement for the exercise of regulatory authority. Removal of this label is prohibited. CAUTION - RADIOACTIVE MATERIAL - THIS SOURCE CONTAINS (AMERICIUM-241) (PLUTONIUM) (RADIUM)

(Showing  only the  name   of  the  appropriate  material).  DO  NOT  TOUCH  RADIOACTIVE PORTION OF THIS SOURCE.

(Name of Manufacturer or Importer).

(c)    Shall not transfer, abandon or dispose of the source except by transfer to a person authorized by a license from the department, the NRC, or an agreement state to receive the source.

(d)   Shall store the source, except when the source is being used, in a closed container adequately designed and constructed to contain americium-241, plutonium or radium which might otherwise escape during storage.

(e)   Shall not use the source for any purpose other than the calibration of radiation detectors or the standardization of other sources.

(6)     The general licenses provided in subrules (1), (2) and (3) do not authorize the manufacture of calibration or reference sources containing americium-241, plutonium or radium.

History: 1954 ACS 85, Eff. Dec. 3, 1975.