RE: Exempt Quantities

["Jim F. Herrold" <Herrold@UWyo.Edu>]

Betty:

This is the way we understand this regulation: The exemption in 10 CFR
30.18 exempts people from LICENSING requirements for total quantities of
radionuclides not exceeding 30.71 Schedule B. If you already have a
broad-scope license you obviously are not exempt, so any quantity of
radioactive material you receive is covered under your license. At the
University of Wyoming, all radionuclides received must be approved and
processed through the Radiation Safety Office, whether or not they are
below the 30.71 Schedule B quantities. All waste is picked up and
disposed the same way. The University is the licensee, not the
researcher. It should be the same at your institution, unless otherwise
allowed under your license.

Jim F. Herrold
Radiation Safety Officer
University of Wyoming
Environmental Health & Safety
312 Merica Hall
Laramie, WY 82071

herrold@uwyo.edu
(307) 766-3277

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>From: 	Betty E Schwab[SMTP:bschwab@hsc.vcu.edu]
>Sent: 	Tuesday, November 04, 1997 9:13 AM
>To: 	Multiple recipients of list
>Subject: 	Exempt Quantities
>
>    At Virginia Commonwealth University we have a medical center and a
>research community.  We would like to know how other universities or
>institutions with broad byproduct materials licenses from the NRC treat
>exempt quantities of RAM that do not require a license to order. Do you
>operate as if there are no exempt quantities under your license?  Or, do
>
>you allow users to order, receive and dispose of exempt quantities
>without regard to your license.
>    An example is the C-14 PYTest for H. pylori, which will not require
>an NRC license if the proposed NRC ruling is approved.  Would you allow
>a user in your institution to order, use and dispose of the radioactive
>material waste in the regular trash?  Or would they have to meet all
>license requirements as required of users of larger quantities?
>
>Betty Schwab, Radiation Safety Supervisor
>bschwab@hsc.vcu.edu
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