4731 RADIATION SAFETY

4731.8030 RELIEF FROM FINGERPRINTING, IDENTIFICATION, AND CRIMINAL HISTORY RECORDS CHECKS AND OTHER ELEMENTS OF BACKGROUND INVESTIGATIONS. Subpart 1. Exemption to certain security checks. Fingerprinting, and the identification and criminal history records checks required by secti…

4731.8035 PROTECTION OF INFORMATION. A. Each licensee who obtains background information on an individual under parts 4731.8010 to 4731.8040 must establish and maintain a system of files and written procedures for protection of the record and the personal information from unautho…

4731.8040 ACCESS AUTHORIZATION PROGRAM REVIEW. A. Each licensee must be responsible for the continuing effectiveness of the access authorization program. Each licensee must ensure that access authorization programs are reviewed to confirm compliance with the requirements of parts…

4731.8050 SECURITY PROGRAM. Subpart 1. Applicability. A. Each licensee that possesses an aggregated category 1 or category 2 quantity of radioactive material must establish, implement, and maintain a security program in accordance with the requirements of parts 4731.8050 to 4731.…

4731.8055 GENERAL SECURITY PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS. Subpart 1. Security plan. A. Each licensee identified in part 4731.8050 must develop a written security plan specific to its facilities and operations. The purpose of the security plan is to establish the licensee's overall securit…

4731.8060 LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY (LLEA) COORDINATION. A. A licensee subject to parts 4731.8050 to 4731.8090 must coordinate, to the extent practicable, with an LLEA for responding to threats to the licensee's facility, including any necessary armed response. The information…

4731.8065 SECURITY ZONES. A. Licensees must ensure that all aggregated category 1 and category 2 quantities of radioactive material are used or stored within licensee-established security zones. Security zones may be permanent or temporary. B. Temporary security zones must be est…

4731.8070 MONITORING, DETECTION, AND ASSESSMENT. Subpart 1. Monitoring and detection. A. Licensees must establish and maintain the capability to continuously monitor and detect without delay all unauthorized entries into its security zones. Licensees must provide the means to mai…

4731.8075 MAINTENANCE AND TESTING. A. Each licensee subject to parts 4731.8050 to 4731.8090 must implement a maintenance and testing program to ensure that intrusion alarms, associated communication systems, and other physical components of the systems used to secure or detect un…

4731.8080 REQUIREMENTS FOR MOBILE DEVICES. Each licensee that possesses mobile devices containing category 1 or category 2 quantities of radioactive material must: A. have two independent physical controls that form tangible barriers to secure the material from unauthorized remov…

4731.8085 SECURITY PROGRAM REVIEW. A. Each licensee must be responsible for the continuing effectiveness of the security program. Each licensee must ensure that the security program is reviewed to confirm compliance with the requirements of parts 4731.8050 to 4731.8090 and that c…

4731.8090 REPORTING OF EVENTS. A. The licensee must immediately notify the local law enforcement agency (LLEA) after determining that an unauthorized entry resulted in an actual or attempted theft, sabotage, or diversion of a category 1 or category 2 quantity of radioactive mater…

4731.8100 ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS FOR TRANSFER OF CATEGORY 1 AND CATEGORY 2 QUANTITIES OF RADIOACTIVE MATERIAL. A licensee transferring a category 1 or category 2 quantity of radioactive material to a licensee of the commissioner, the NRC, or an agreement state must meet the lice…

4731.8105 APPLICABILITY OF PHYSICAL PROTECTION OF CATEGORY 1 AND CATEGORY 2 QUANTITIES OF RADIOACTIVE MATERIAL DURING TRANSIT. The shipping licensee must meet the requirements of parts 4731.8100 to 4731.8125 unless the receiving licensee has agreed in writing to arrange for the i…

4731.8110 PREPLANNING AND COORDINATION OF SHIPMENT OF CATEGORY 1 OR CATEGORY 2 QUANTITIES OF RADIOACTIVE MATERIAL. A. Each licensee that plans to transport, or deliver to a carrier for transport, licensed material that is a category 1 quantity of radioactive material outside the …

4731.8115 ADVANCE NOTIFICATION OF SHIPMENT OF CATEGORY 1 QUANTITIES OF RADIOACTIVE MATERIAL. Subpart 1. Advanced notification required. As specified in subparts 2 and 3, each licensee must provide advance notification to the commissioner and the governor of a state, or the govern…

4731.8120 PHYSICAL PROTECTION OF CATEGORY 1 AND CATEGORY 2 QUANTITIES OF RADIOACTIVE MATERIAL DURING SHIPMENT. Subpart 1. Shipments by road. A. Each licensee who transports, or delivers to a carrier for transport, in a single shipment, a category 1 quantity of radioactive materia…

4731.8125 REPORTING OF EVENTS. A. The shipping licensee must notify the appropriate local law enforcement agency (LLEA) and the commissioner within one hour of its determination that a shipment of category 1 quantities of radioactive material is lost or missing. The appropriate L…

4731.8130 FORM OF RECORDS. Each record required by this part must be legible throughout the retention period specified by the applicable rule part. The record may be the original or a reproduced copy or a microform, provided that the copy or microform is authenticated by authoriz…

4731.8135 RECORD RETENTION. Licensees must maintain the records that are required by parts 4731.8000 to 4731.8140 for the period specified by the applicable rule. If a retention period is not otherwise specified, these records must be retained until the commissioner terminates th…

4731.8140 CATEGORY 1 AND CATEGORY 2 RADIOACTIVE MATERIALS. Subpart 1. Table 1 - category 1 and category 2 threshold. The Terabecquerel (TBq) values are the regulatory standard. The curie (Ci) values specified are obtained by converting from the TBq value. The Ci values are provid…