PART 71—PACKAGING AND TRANSPORTATION OF RADIOACTIVE MATERIAL
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Subpart A—General Provisions
71.0 Purpose and scope.
71.1 Communications and records.
71.2 Interpretations.
71.3 Requirement for license.
71.4 Definitions.
71.5 Transportation of licensed material.
71.6 Information collection requirements: OMB approval.
71.7 Completeness and accuracy of information.
71.8 Deliberate misconduct.
71.9 Employee Protection.
71.10 Public Inspection of application.
71.11 Protection of Safeguards Information
Subpart B—Exemptions
71.12 Specific exemptions.
71.13 Exemption of physicians.
71.14 Exemption for low-level materials.
71.15 Exemption from classification as fissile material.
71.16 [Reserved]
Subpart C—General Licenses
71.17 General license: NRC-approved package.
71.18 [Reserved]
71.19 Previously approved package.
71.21 General license: Use of foreign approved package.
71.22 General license: Fissile material.
71.23 General license: Plutonium-beryllium special form material.
71.24 [Reserved]
71.25 [Reserved]
Subpart D—Application for Package Approval
71.31 Contents of application.
71.33 Package description.
71.35 Package evaluation.
71.37 Quality assurance.
71.38 Renewal of a certificate of compliance or quality assurance program approval.
71.39 Requirement for additional information.
Subpart E—Package Approval Standards
71.41 Demonstration of compliance.
71.43 General standards for all packages.
71.45 Lifting and tie-down standards for all packages.
71.47 External radiation standards for all packages.
71.51 Additional requirements for Type B packages.
71.53 [Reserved]
71.55 General requirements for fissile material packages.
71.57 [Reserved]
71.59 Standards for arrays of fissile material packages.
71.61 Special requirements for Type B packages containing more than 105A2.
71.63 Special requirements for plutonium shipments.
71.64 Special requirements for plutonium air shipments.
71.65 Additional requirements.
Subpart F—Package, Special Form, and LSA-III Tests
71.70 Incorporations by reference.
71.71 Normal conditions of transport.
71.73 Hypothetical accident conditions.
71.74 Accident conditions for air transport of plutonium.
71.75 Qualification of special form radioactive material.
71.77 Qualification of LSA-III Material.
Subpart G—Operating Controls and Procedures
71.81 Applicability of operating controls and procedures.
71.83 Assumptions as to unknown properties.
71.85 Preliminary determinations.
71.87 Routine determinations.
71.88 Air transport of plutonium.
71.89 Opening instructions.
71.91 Records.
71.93 Inspection and tests.
71.95 Reports.
71.97 Advance notification of shipment of irradiated reactor fuel and nuclear waste.
71.99 Violations.
71.100 Criminal penalties.
Subpart H—Quality Assurance
71.101 Quality assurance requirements.
71.103 Quality assurance organization.
71.105 Quality assurance program.
71.106 Changes to quality assurance program.
71.107 Package design control.
71.109 Procurement document control.
71.111 Instructions, procedures, and drawings.
71.113 Document control.
71.115 Control of purchased material, equipment, and services.
71.117 Identification and control of materials, parts, and components.
71.119 Control of special processes.
71.121 Internal inspection.
71.123 Test control.
71.125 Control of measuring and test equipment.
71.127 Handling, storage, and shipping control.
71.129 Inspection, test, and operating status.
71.131 Nonconforming materials, parts, or components.
71.133 Corrective action.
71.135 Quality assurance records.
71.137 Audits.
Appendix A to Part 71—Determination of A1 and A2
Authority: Atomic Energy Act of 1954, secs. 53, 57, 62, 63, 81, 161, 182, 183, 223, 234, 1701 (42 U.S.C. 2073, 2077, 2092, 2093, 2111, 2201, 2232, 2233, 2273, 2282, 2297f); Energy Reorganization Act of 1974, secs. 201, 202, 206, 211 (42 U.S.C. 5841, 5842, 5846, 5851); Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982, sec. 180 (42 U.S.C. 10175); 44 U.S.C. 3504 note.
Section 71.97 also issued under Sec. 301, Pub. L. 96–295, 94 Stat. 789 (42 U.S.C. 5841 note).
Source: 60 FR 50264, Sept. 28, 1995, unless otherwise noted.
[72 FR 63974, Nov. 14, 2007; 73 FR 63572, Oct. 24, 2008; 77 FR 39908, Jul. 6, 2012; 77 FR 34204, Jun. 11, 2012; 80 FR 34013-34014, Jun. 12, 2015; 80 FR 54235, Sep. 9, 2015]
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