Re: DOT Applicability

[don@radpro.uchicago.edu]

This question has bedeviled us for a while as well.  In the end we 
gave up & designed & had Type-A testing done for several packagings.
(They passed!)  We have had the same response from our Agreement 
State regulators (Ill. Dept. of Nuc. Safety) as the NRC as to the 
"contiguous facility" concept, i.e., that the state did not intend 
to enforce DOT regs. for transport on our campus.  This, however,
left several questions unanswered, namely, would DOT enforce their
regs for such transport?  Or, would the Ill. State police or the 
Chicago police decide to enforce those regulations?  The IDNS 
assurances did not address these concerns.  If I were to see a similar
statement on enforcement policy from DOT on transport around a campus,
I would be more comfortable.  Also, wasn't someone at NIH convicted
of criminal charges a couple of years ago for transporting RAM around
that campus in the trunk of his car?

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Don Jordan                          Tel. (773) 702-6299
Office of Radiation Safety          Fax        702-4008
The University of Chicago           email: don@radpro.uchicago.edu
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