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§ 30192.7. General Licenses -- Items and Self-Luminous Products Containing Radium-226.

17 CA ADC § 30192.7Barclays Official California Code of Regulations

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Title 17. Public Health
Division 1. State Department of Health Services (Refs & Annos)
Chapter 5. Sanitation (Environmental) (Refs & Annos)
Subchapter 4. Radiation
Group 2. Licensing of Radioactive Materials
Article 4. Licenses
17 CCR § 30192.7
§ 30192.7. General Licenses -- Items and Self-Luminous Products Containing Radium-226.
(a) A general license is hereby issued to any person to acquire, receive, possess, use, or transfer, in accordance with subsections (b), (c), and (d), radium-226 contained in the following products manufactured prior to November 30, 2007:
(1) Antiquities originally intended for use by the general public. For the purposes of this paragraph, antiquities mean products originally intended for use by the general public and distributed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, such as radium emanator jars, revigators, radium water jars, radon generators, refrigerator cards, radium bath salts, and healing pads;
(2) Intact timepieces containing greater than one microcurie, nonintact timepieces, and timepiece hands and dials no longer installed in timepieces;
(3) Luminous items installed in air, marine, or land vehicles;
(4) All other luminous products, provided that no more than 100 items are used or stored at the same location at any one time; and
(5) Small radium sources containing not more than one microcurie of radium-226. For purposes of this paragraph, “small radium sources” means discrete survey instrument check sources, sources contained in radiation measuring instruments, sources used in educational demonstrations (such as cloud chambers and spinthariscopes), electron tubes, lightning rods, ionization sources, static eliminators, or other sources as designated by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC).
(b) Persons who acquire, receive, possess, use, or transfer radioactive material under the general license issued pursuant to this section are exempt from the provisions of Group 3 of this subchapter, to the extent that the receipt, possession, use, or transfer of radioactive material is within the terms of the general license; provided, however, that this exemption shall not be deemed to apply to any such person specifically licensed under this subchapter.
(c) Any person who acquires, receives, possesses, uses, or transfers radioactive material in accordance with the general license issued pursuant to subsection (a) shall:
(1) Notify the Department should there be any indication of possible damage to the product so that it appears it could result in a loss of the radioactive material. A report containing a brief description of the event, and the remedial action taken, shall be submitted within 30 days of the event;
(2) Not abandon products containing radium-226. The product, and any radioactive material from the product, may only be disposed of by transfer to a person authorized pursuant to a specific license to receive the radium-226 in the product, or as otherwise approved by the Department;
(3) Not export products containing radium-226 except in accordance with an export license issued by NRC pursuant to 10 CFR Part 110. This provision shall not be construed to incorporate by reference 10 CFR Part 110;
(4) Dispose of products containing radium-226 by transfer to a person authorized to receive radium-226 pursuant to a specific license issued by the Department or NRC, or equivalent regulations of an Agreement State, or as otherwise approved by the Department; and
(5) Upon Department request, provide information relating to the general license within 30 calendar days of the date of the request, or such other time specified in the request. If the general licensee is unable to provide the requested information within the allotted time, a request for extending that time shall be submitted prior to the end of the allotted time, and the request for an extension of time shall include a written justification as to why the allotted time should be extended.
(d) The general license issued pursuant to this section does not authorize the manufacture, assembly, disassembly, repair, or import of products containing radium-226, except that timepieces may be disassembled and repaired.

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Note: Authority cited: Sections 114975, 115000 and 131200, Health and Safety Code. Reference: Sections 114965, 114970, 114985(g), 115000, 115060, 115165, 115230, 115235, 131050, 131051 and 131052, Health and Safety Code.
History
1. New section filed 12-30-2014; operative 4-1-2015 (Register 2015, No. 1).
This database is current through 4/26/24 Register 2024, No. 17.
Cal. Admin. Code tit. 17, § 30192.7, 17 CA ADC § 30192.7
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