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Forwards IE Info Notice 80-32, Clarification of Certain Requirements of Exclusive Use Shipments of Radioactive Matls
ML19344B428
Person / Time
Site: 05000262
Issue date: 08/29/1980
From: Sniezek J
NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE)
To: Mcclurg L
Brigham Young University, PROVO, UT
References
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tion lwith4this effort, civil penalties have been assessed for violationlof associated.re

of' Low Level gulatory requirementsJ. IE-Bulletins 79-19.and 79-20 " Packaging Radioactive Waste for Transport.and 8urial," issued' August 8i 1979 and IE Information Notice' 79-21,""Trtnsportation ~and Commercial' Burial of

' Radioactive Meterial'".fssued September 7, 1979, provide background in this regard.~

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prompted-al number of. questions on the proper; application of certain regulatory requirements.- These. questions involve:mainly the~ problems;and deficiencies' n

associated wi.thiexclusive use. highway shipments;ofelow-level radicactive wastes. -The purpose of:this Notice is'to discussithe' questions and clarify the applicability of'certain: requirements.

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p Aeolication of 39 CFR 173.'393(i) and TD i

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