ML20206N983
| ML20206N983 | |
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| Issue date: | 12/04/1998 |
| From: | Bangart R NRC OFFICE OF STATE PROGRAMS (OSP) |
| To: | Coleman M OKLAHOMA, STATE OF |
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| NUDOCS 9812290185 | |
| Download: ML20206N983 (3) | |
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_DEC - 4 g3 Mr. Mark Coleman, Executive Director Oklahoma Department of Environmental Quality 707 North Robinson P.O. Box 1677 Oklahoma City, OK 73101-1677
Dear Mr. Coleman:
We have received your letter of November 12,1998, prepared in response to our August 21, 1998 request for clarification of your proposal to limit the source materia 1 category of licensees under the proposed Oklahoma Agreement. Staff plans to seek Commission direction on the proposal. The expanded characterization provided in your letter will be included in the Commission paper. We will keep your office informed of the status of your proposal.
If you have any questions, please contact me or Patricia Larkins at 301-415-2309.
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4 DElk Q K L A H 0 M A MARK COLEMAN FRANK KEATING Exxutive Dirutw OKLAHOMA DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY sovunu November 12,1988 5
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Dear Mr. Bangart:
e The Atomic Energy Act, as amended, makes provision for states to achieve Agreement Status while exempting Source, Byproduct, and/or Special Nuclear Material from the Agreement. As discussed with the OSP staff, Oklahoma wishes to use this authority to become an Agreement State while exempting Source Material from the scope of the Agreement. The Commission has expressed concem that the terms of any Agreement should minimize confusion for licensees, and Oklahoma holds the same view.
In most cases, excluding source material is a simple matter, however there is a class of source material which requires some consideration. Source material is used in certain limited applications to take advantage ofits density, not its radioactivity. Specifically, certain licensees use source material as shielding from the radiation produced by special nuclear materials and byproduct materials, or for sinker bars associated with well logging using byproduct and special nuclear materials. These licenses have as their primary object the use of byproduct material and/or special nuclear material, but include the use of source material for ancillary purposes not related to its radioactivity.
Licensees in these subclasses will possess source material used only for these limited purposes, while few (if any) would have source material for any other purpose. When used in these limited purposes, source material does not constitute a significant radiation safety or national security concern that wouldjustify separate consideration from byproduct or special nuclear materials.
If exclusion of source material was blindly followed, Oklahema's licensees in this category would be required to shift their licenses covering byproduct and special nuclear material to Oklahoma's jurisdiction, but would have to maintain a separate license for source material with the NRC. This would create difficulties for Oklahoma, NRC, and the licensees. We do not believe it is desirable. Without a substantial reason, existing i
licenses should not be split.
l Double regulation of this class would be an unfounded and unnecessary regulatory burden and fee expense. It would have no basis in radiation safety or in national security i
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concerns. The industrial radiography and well logging subcategories have large numbers of small entities, which would be particularly hard hit by this requirement.
Oklahoma proposes that the simplest way to address this problem is that jurisdiction over source material inherently associated with byproduct or special nuclear material should go with that material to Oklahoma. This proposal only involves source material which is intrinsically associated with byproduct or special nuclear material in an NRC license.
Other source material users, where source material was centrel to the operation, and was the principal source of hazard or security concern in the license, would remain with NRC.
This will mean that no licenses will be broken up because of source material unless there is a legitimate radiation safety or national security reason to do so.
We have identified the following subcategories that are ofinterest here:
industrial radiography using source material for shielding purposes.
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l medical licensees using source material for shielding in certain applications such as irradiators, teletherapy units, and radionuclide generators.
well logging licensees using source material for sinker bars.
Please feel free to contact Mike Broderick of my staff for any clarification or assistance in this matter.
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