[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 10, Volume 1]
[Revised as of January 1, 2005]
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[CITE: 10CFR40.12]

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                            TITLE 10--ENERGY
 
                CHAPTER I--NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
 
PART 40_DOMESTIC LICENSING OF SOURCE MATERIAL--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 40.12  Carriers.

    (a) Except as specified in paragraph (b) of this section, common and 
contract carriers, freight forwarders, warehousemen, and the U.S. Postal 
Service are exempt from the regulations in this part and the 
requirements for a license set forth in section 62 of the Act to the 
extent that they transport or store source material in the regular 
course of the carriage for another or storage incident thereto.
    (b) The exemption in paragraph (a) of this section does not apply to 
a person who possesses a transient shipment (as defined in Sec. 
40.4(r)), an import shipment, or an export shipment of natural uranium 
in an amount exceeding 500 kilograms, unless the shipment is in the form 
of ore or ore residue.

[52 FR 9651, Mar. 26, 1987]