Minnesota Administrative Rules

4731.0570 APPLICATION; CONTENTS.

Subpart 1.

Required information.

A.

An application for a license under parts 4731.0525 to 4731.0630 must contain:

(1)

the applicant's full name and address;

(2)

the applicant's age, if an individual;

(3)

the applicant's citizenship; and

(4)

the names and addresses of three personal references.

B.

If the applicant is a corporation or other entity, the application must contain:

(1)

the state where the entity was incorporated or organized;

(2)

the location of the principal office;

(3)

the names, addresses, and citizenship of the entity's principal officers; and

(4)

information known to the applicant concerning the control or ownership, if any, exercised over the applicant by any alien, foreign corporation, or foreign government.

C.

All applications must contain:

(1)

a description of the activity for which the special nuclear material is requested, or in which special nuclear material will be produced, the place at which the activity is to be performed, and the general plan for carrying out the activity;

(2)

the period of time for which the license is requested;

(3)

the name, amount, and specifications, including the chemical and physical form and, where applicable, isotopic content, of the special nuclear material the applicant proposes to use or produce;

(4)

the technical qualifications, including training and experience of the applicant and members of the applicant's staff, to engage in the proposed activities according to this chapter;

(5)

a description of equipment and facilities that will be used by the applicant to protect health and minimize danger to life or property, such as handling devices, working areas, shields, measuring and monitoring instruments, devices for the disposal of radioactive effluents and wastes, storage facilities, and criticality accident alarm systems; and

(6)

proposed procedures to protect health and minimize danger to life or property, such as procedures to avoid accidental criticality, procedures for personnel monitoring and waste disposal, and postcriticality accident emergency procedures.

D.

Where the nature of the proposed activities is such as to require consideration of the applicant's financial qualifications to engage in the proposed activities according to this chapter, the commissioner may request the applicant to submit information regarding the applicant's financial qualifications.

E.

As provided under part 4731.0580, certain applications for specific licenses filed under parts 4731.0525 to 4731.0630 must contain a proposed decommissioning funding plan or a certification of financial assurance for decommissioning.

F.

Each application and statement must contain complete and accurate disclosure as to all matters and things required to be disclosed.

Subp. 2.

Additional information.

The commissioner may, at any time after the filing of the original application and before the expiration of the license, require further statements to enable the commissioner to determine whether an application should be granted or denied or whether a license should be modified or revoked. All applications and statements must be signed by the applicant or licensee or a corporate officer thereof.

Statutory Authority:

MS s 144.1202; 144.1203

History:

29 SR 755

Published Electronically:

March 12, 2009