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Informs That State of Ny Requested to Take Appropriate Steps to Cease Distribution by New York General Licensee of Lightning Rods Containing Source Matl & Obtain Plan to Recover Devices Distributed to Date
ML20246F240
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Issue date: 04/03/1989
From: Kammerer C
NRC OFFICE OF GOVERNMENTAL & PUBLIC AFFAIRS (GPA)
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AFFILIATION NOT ASSIGNED
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i ALL AGREEMENT AND NON. AGREEMENT STATES i

i UNAUTHORIZED DISTRIBUTION OF LIGHTNING RODS CONTAINING SOURCE MATERIAL A number of States have learned of the distribution of lightning rods

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?.icensee of New York, Henry Brothers. Our Offices of the General Counsel and Nuclear Materials Safety and Safeguards have reviewed this matter and concluded that (a) the distribution of lightning rods containing source material as a consumer product is not authorized by NRC, and (b) the distribution of a consumer product is not en activity contemplated as coming under a general license.

Accordingly, we have requested New York to take appropriate steps to cease such distribution by the New York general licensee and to obtain a plan from the general licensee for recovery of the devices distributed to date.

Should the general licensee wish to do so, a getition for rulemaking can be filed with NRC to amend 10 CFR 40.13, Unimportant quantities of source material" to include lightning rods containing source materis1.

We will keep you informed as developments warrant.

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..The inteipretatioU.S.Nucl' ear. Regulatory Commissi'on"(NRC)Jhes issued an' '-

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lightning preventors are. consumer. products. and must;.be distributed-pursuant. to an exemption such as, listed in Table 1. of Industrial

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Based on the fact'that Heary Bros. Lightning Protection Co.

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