Minnesota Administrative Rules

4731.0745 GENERAL LICENSE; SMALL QUANTITIES OF SOURCE MATERIAL.

Subpart 1.

General license issued.

A general license is issued authorizing commercial and industrial firms; research, educational, and medical institutions; and state and local government agencies to use and transfer not more than 15 pounds of source material at any one time for research, development, educational, commercial, or operational purposes. A person authorized to use or transfer source material under this general license may not receive more than a total of 150 pounds of source material in any one calendar year.

Subp. 2.

Other law.

A person who receives, possesses, uses, or transfers source material under the general license issued under subpart 1 is exempt from parts 4731.1000 to 4731.2950, to the extent that the receipt, possession, use, or transfer is within the terms of the general license. This exemption does not apply to a person who is also in possession of source material under a specific license issued under parts 4731.0700 to 4731.0840.

Subp. 3.

Prohibition.

A person who receives, possesses, uses, or transfers source material under the general license issued under subpart 1 is prohibited from administering source material, or the radiation therefrom, either externally or internally, to human beings except as may be authorized by the commissioner, the NRC, or an agreement state in a specific license.

Statutory Authority:

MS s 144.1202; 144.1203

History:

29 SR 755

Published Electronically:

March 12, 2009