[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 10, Volume 1]
[Revised as of January 1, 2001]
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[CITE: 10CFR40.1]

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                            TITLE 10--ENERGY
 
                CHAPTER I--NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
 
PART 40--DOMESTIC LICENSING OF SOURCE MATERIAL--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 40.1  Purpose.

    (a) The regulations in this part establish procedures and criteria 
for the issuance of licenses to receive title to, receive, possess, use, 
transfer, or deliver source and byproduct materials, as defined in this 
part, and establish and provide for the terms and conditions upon which 
the Commission will issue such licenses. (Additional requirements 
applicable to natural and depleted uranium at enrichment facilities are 
set forth in Sec. 70.22 of this chapter.) These regulations also provide 
for the disposal of byproduct material and for the long-term care and 
custody of byproduct material and residual radioactive material. The 
regulations in this part also establish certain requirements for the 
physical protection of import, export, and transient shipments of 
natural uranium. (Additional requirements applicable to the import and 
export of natural uranium are set forth in part 110 of this chapter.)
    (b) The regulations contained in this part are issued under the 
Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended (68 Stat. 919), title II of the 
Energy Reorganization Act of 1974, as amended (88 Stat. 1242), and 
titles I and II of the Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act of 
1978, as amended (42 U.S.C. 7901).

[55 FR 45597, Oct. 30, 1990, as amended at 56 FR 55997, Oct. 31, 1991]