[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 10, Volume 1]
[Revised as of January 1, 2004]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 10CFR31.8]

[Page 506-507]
 
                            TITLE 10--ENERGY
 
                CHAPTER I--NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
 
PART 31--GENERAL DOMESTIC LICENSES FOR BYPRODUCT MATERIAL--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 31.8  Americium-241 in the form of calibration or reference sources.

    (a) A general license is hereby issued to those persons listed below 
to own, receive, acquire, possess, use and transfer, in accordance with 
the provisions of paragraphs (b) and (c) of this section, americium-241 
in the form of calibration or reference sources:
    (1) Any person in a non-Agreement State who holds a specific license 
issued pursuant to this chapter which authorizes him to receive, 
possess, use and transfer byproduct material, source material, or 
special nuclear material; and
    (2) Any Government agency, as defined in Sec. 30.4(g) of this 
chapter, which holds a specific license issued pursuant to this chapter 
which authorizes it to receive, possess, use and transfer byproduct 
material, source material, or special nuclear material.
    (b) The general license in paragraph (a) of this section applies 
only to calibration or reference sources which

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have been manufactured or initially transferred in accordance with the 
specifications contained in a specific license issued pursuant to Sec. 
32.57 of this chapter or in accordance with the specifications contained 
in a specific license issued to the manufacturer by an Agreement State 
which authorizes manufacture of the sources for distribution to persons 
generally licensed by the Agreement State.
    (c) The general license in paragraph (a) of this section is subject 
to the provisions of Sec. Sec. 30.14(d), 30.34 (a) to (e), and 30.50 to 
30.63 of this chapter, and to the provisions of parts 19, 20, and 21, of 
this chapter. In addition, persons who own, receive, acquire, possess, 
use and transfer one or more calibration or reference sources pursuant 
to this general license:
    (1) Shall not possess at any one time, at any one location of 
storage or use, more than 5 microcuries of americium-241 in such 
sources:
    (2) Shall not receive, possess, use or transfer such 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: \1\
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    \1\ Sources generally licensed under this section prior to January 
19, 1975 may bear labels authorized by the regulations in effect on 
January 1, 1975.

    The receipt, possession, use and transfer of this source, Model ----
, Serial No. ----, are subject to a general license and the regulations 
of the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission or of a State with 
which the Commission has entered into an agreement for the exercise of 
regulatory authority. Do not remove this label.

 CAUTION--RADIOACTIVE MATERIAL--THIS SOURCE CONTAINS AMERICIUM-241. DO 
              NOT TOUCH RADIOACTIVE PORTION OF THIS SOURCE.

________________________________________________________________________
(Name of manufacturer or initial transferor)

    (3) Shall not transfer, abandon, or dispose of such source except by 
transfer to a person authorized by a license pursuant to this chapter or 
from an Agreement State to receive the source.
    (4) Shall store such source, except when the source is being used, 
in a closed container adequately designed and constructed to contain 
americium-241 which might otherwise escape during storage.
    (5) Shall not use such source for any purpose other than the 
calibration of radiation detectors or the standardization of other 
sources.
    (d) This general license does not authorize the manufacture or 
import of calibration or reference sources containing americium-241.
    (e) This general license does not authorize the export of 
calibration or reference sources containing americium-241.

[30 FR 8189, June 26, 1965, as amended at 38 FR 22220, Aug. 17, 1973; 40 
FR 8785, Mar. 3, 1975; 42 FR 28896, June 6, 1977; 43 FR 6922, Feb. 17, 
1978; 56 FR 40767, Aug. 16, 1991]