WAC 246-233-012
General license for certain items and
self-luminous products containing radium-226. (1) A general
license shall be issued to any person to acquire, receive,
possess, use, or transfer, in accordance with the provisions
of subsections (2), (3), and (4) of this section, radium-226
contained in:
(a) Antiquities originally intended for use by the
general public. For the purposes of this subsection,
antiquities mean products originally intended for use by the
general public and distributed in the late 19th and early 20th
centuries, such as radium emanator jars, revigators, radium
water jars, radon generators, refrigerator cards, radium bath
salts, and healing pads.
(b) Intact timepieces containing greater than 0.037
megabecquerel (1 microcurie), nonintact timepieces, and
timepiece hands and dials no longer installed in timepieces.
(c) Luminous items installed in air, marine, or land
vehicles.
(d) All other luminous products, provided that no more
than one hundred items are used or stored at the same location
at any one time.
(e) Small radium sources containing no more than 0.037
megabecquerel (1 microcurie) of radium-226. For the purposes
of this subsection, "small radium sources" means discrete
survey instrument check sources, sources contained in
radiation measuring instruments, sources used in educational
demonstrations (such as cloud chambers and spinthariscopes),
electron tubes, lightning rods, ionization sources, static
eliminators, or as designated by the department of health.
(2) Persons who acquire, receive, possess, use, or
transfer radioactive materials under the general license
issued in subsection (1) of this section are exempt from the
provisions of chapters 246-221 and 246-222 WAC to the extent
that such receipt, possession, use, or transfer is within the
terms of such general license. This exemption shall not apply
to any person who is also in possession of radioactive
materials under a specific license issued under chapter 246-235 WAC.
(3) Any person who acquires, receives, possesses, uses,
or transfers by-product material in accordance with the
general license in subsection (1) of this section:
(a) Shall notify the department should there be any
indication of possible damage to the product so that it
appears it could result in a loss of the radioactive material.
A report containing a brief description of the event, and the
remedial action taken, must be furnished to the department
within thirty days.
(b) Shall not abandon products containing radium-226.
The product, and any radioactive material from the product,
may only be transferred or disposed of in accordance with
chapter 246-232 WAC, or as otherwise approved by the
department.
(c) Shall not export products containing radium-226
except in accordance with chapter 246-231 WAC.
(d) Shall dispose of products containing radium-226 at a
disposal facility authorized to dispose of radioactive
material in accordance with any federal or state solid or
hazardous waste law, including the Solid Waste Disposal Act,
as authorized under the Energy Policy Act of 2005, by transfer
to a person authorized to receive radium-226 by a specific
license issued under chapter 246-235 WAC, or equivalent
regulations of an agreement state, or as otherwise approved by
the NRC.
(e) Shall respond to written requests from the department
to provide information relating to the general license within
thirty calendar days of the date of the request, or other time
specified in the request. If the general licensee cannot
provide the requested information within the allotted time, it
shall, within that same time period, request a longer period
to supply the information by providing a written justification
for the request.
(4) The general license in subsection (1) of this section
does not authorize the manufacture, assembly, disassembly,
repair, or import of products containing radium-226, except
that timepieces may be disassembled and repaired.
[Statutory Authority: RCW 70.98.050 and 70.98.080. 09-06-003, § 246-233-012, filed 2/18/09, effective 3/21/09.]