§2093 Domestic distribution of source material

Summary

The Commission can give licenses to distribute source material inside the United States to qualified applicants. It can do this for research and development listed in section 2051, for research or medical therapy under a license in section 2134, for uses covered by section 2133, or for any other use the Commission approves to help science or industry. The Commission must write rules that set minimum standards for specific or general licenses. Those standards must look at the material’s physical form, how much is given, and how it will be used, based on how those things affect national defense or public health and safety. The Commission may charge a reasonable fee (see section 2201(m)) for materials in the first, second, or fourth categories, and must charge for the third category. It must also write criteria for when a fee will be charged for the first, second, or fourth categories, and consider if the requester is a nonprofit or charitable organization and the purpose of the use.