Title 42The Public Health and WelfareRelease 119-73not60

§2092 License Requirements for Transfers

Title 42 › Chapter 23— DEVELOPMENT AND CONTROL OF ATOMIC ENERGY › Subchapter VI— SOURCE MATERIAL › § 2092

Last updated Apr 5, 2026|Official source

Summary

A general or specific license from the Commission is required to move, import, export, sell, or change ownership of any source material taken from nature; small quantities the Commission calls unimportant are exempt.

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Title 42, §2092

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Unless authorized by a general or specific license issued by the Commission which the Commission is authorized to issue, no person may transfer or receive in interstate commerce, transfer, deliver, receive possession of or title to, or import into or export from the United States any source material after removal from its place of deposit in nature, except that licenses shall not be required for quantities of source material which, in the opinion of the Commission, are unimportant.

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Prior Provisions

Provisions similar to this section were contained in section 1805(b)(2) of this title, prior to the general amendment and renumbering of act Aug. 1, 1946, by act Aug. 30, 1954.

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42 U.S.C. § 2092

Title 42The Public Health and Welfare

Last Updated

Apr 5, 2026

Release point: 119-73not60