Wash. Admin. Code § 246-237-010 - Definitions, abbreviations, and acronyms
The definitions, abbreviations, and acronyms in this section and in WAC 246-220-010 apply throughout this chapter unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:
(1) "Access
control" means a system for allowing only approved individuals to have
unescorted access to the security zone and for ensuring that all other
individuals are subject to escorted access.
(2) "Act" means the Atomic Energy Act of
1954, including any amendments thereto.
(3) "Aggregated" means accessible by the
breach of a single physical barrier that would allow access to radioactive
material in any form, including any devices that contain the radioactive
material, when the total activity equals or exceeds a Category 2 quantity of
radioactive material.
(4)
"Agreement state" means any state with which the Atomic Energy Commission or
the NRC has entered into an effective agreement under subsection 274b of the
act. Nonagreement state means any other state.
(5) "Approved individual" means an individual
whom the licensee has determined to be trustworthy and reliable for unescorted
access in accordance with WAC 246-237-021 through 246-237-033 and who has
completed the training required by WAC 246-237-043(3).
(6) "Background investigation" means the
investigation conducted by a licensee or applicant to support the determination
of trustworthiness and reliability.
(7) "Becquerel (Bq)" means the SI unit of
activity. One becquerel is equal to one disintegration or transformation per
second (s-1).
(8) "By-product material" means:
(a) Any radioactive material (except special
nuclear material) yielded in, or made radioactive by, exposure to the radiation
incident to the process of producing or using special nuclear
material;
(b) The tailings or
wastes produced by the extraction or concentration of uranium or thorium from
ore processed primarily for its source material content, including discrete
surface wastes resulting from uranium solution extraction processes.
Underground ore bodies depleted by these solution extraction operations do not
constitute "byproduct material" within this definition;
(c)
(i) Any
discrete source of radium-226 that is produced, extracted, or converted after
extraction, before, on, or after August 8, 2005, for use for a commercial,
medical, or research activity; or
(ii) Any material that:
(A) Has been made radioactive by use of a
particle accelerator; and
(B) Is
produced, extracted, or converted after extraction, before, on, or after August
8, 2005, for use for a commercial, medical, or research activity; and
(d) Any discrete source
of naturally occurring radioactive material, other than source material, that:
(i) The NRC, in consultation with the
Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, the Secretary of Energy,
the Secretary of Homeland Security, and the head of any other appropriate
federal agency, determines would pose a threat similar to the threat posed by a
discrete source of radium-226 to the public health and safety or the common
defense and security; and
(ii)
Before, on, or after August 8, 2005, is extracted or converted after extraction
for use in a commercial, medical, or research activity.
(9) "Carrier" means a person
engaged in the transportation of passengers or property by land or water as a
common, contract, or private carrier, or by civil aircraft.
(10) "Category 1 quantity of radioactive
material" means a quantity of radioactive material meeting or exceeding the
Category 1 threshold in Table 1 of WAC 246-237-900 Appendix A: Table 1-Category
1 and Category 2. This is determined by calculating the ratio of the total
activity of each radionuclide to the Category 1 threshold for that radionuclide
and adding the ratios together. If the sum equals or exceeds one, the quantity
would be considered a Category 1 quantity. Category 1 quantities of radioactive
material do not include the radioactive material contained in any fuel
assembly, subassembly, fuel rod, or fuel pellet.
(11) "Category 2 quantity of radioactive
material" means a quantity of radioactive material meeting or exceeding the
Category 2 threshold but less than the Category 1 threshold in Table 1 of WAC
246-237-900 Appendix A: Table 1-Category 1 and Category 2. This is determined
by calculating the ratio of the total activity of each radionuclide to the
Category 2 threshold for that radionuclide and adding the ratios together. If
the sum equals or exceeds one, the quantity would be considered a Category 2
quantity. Category 2 quantities of radioactive material do not include the
radioactive material contained in any fuel assembly, subassembly, fuel rod, or
fuel pellet.
(12) "Curie" means a
unit of quantity of radioactivity. One curie (Ci) is that quantity of
radioactive material which decays at the rate of 3.7 x
1010 transformations per second (tps).
(13) "Diversion" means the unauthorized
movement of radioactive material subject to this chapter to a location
different from the material's authorized destination inside or outside of the
site at which the material is used or stored.
(14) "Escorted access" means accompaniment
while in a security zone by an approved individual who maintains continuous
direct visual surveillance at all times over an individual who is not approved
for unescorted access.
(15) "FBI"
means the federal bureau of investigation.
(16) "Fingerprint orders" means the orders
issued by the NRC or the legally binding requirements issued by agreement
states that require fingerprints and criminal history records checks for
individuals with unescorted access to Category 1 and Category 2 quantities of
radioactive material or safeguards information modified handling.
(17) "Government agency" means any executive
department, commission, independent establishment, corporation, wholly or
partly owned by the United States of America which is an instrumentality of the
United States, or any board, bureau, division, service, office, officer,
authority, administration, or other establishment in the executive branch of
the government.
(18) "License"
means, except where otherwise specified, a license for radioactive material
issued pursuant to the regulations in chapters 246-232, 246-233, 246-235,
246-240, 246-243, or 246-244 WAC.
(19) "License issuing authority" means the
licensing agency (the department, NRC, or an agreement state) that issued the
license.
(20) "LLEA (local law
enforcement agency)" means a public or private organization that has been
approved by a federal, state, or local government to carry firearms and make
arrests, and is authorized and has the capability to provide an armed response
in the jurisdiction where the licensed Category 1 or Category 2 quantity of
radioactive material is used, stored, or transported.
(21) "Lost or missing licensed material"
means licensed material whose location is unknown. It includes material that
has been shipped but has not reached its destination and whose location cannot
be readily traced in the transportation system.
(22) "Mobile device" means a piece of
equipment containing licensed radioactive material that is either mounted on
wheels or casters, or otherwise equipped for moving without a need for
disassembly or dismounting; or designed to be hand carried. Mobile devices do
not include stationary equipment installed in a fixed location.
(23) "Movement control center" means an
operations center that is remote from transport activity and that maintains
position information on the movement of radioactive material, receives reports
of attempted attacks or thefts, provides a means for reporting these and other
problems to appropriate agencies, and can request and coordinate appropriate
aid.
(24) "No-later-than arrival
time" means the date and time that the shipping licensee and receiving licensee
have established as the time at which an investigation will be initiated if the
shipment has not arrived at the receiving facility. The no-later-than arrival
time may not be more than six hours after the estimated arrival time for
shipments of Category 2 quantities of radioactive material.
(25) "NRC" or "commission" means the U.S.
Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
(26)
"Person" means any individual, corporation, partnership, firm, association,
trust, estate, public or private institution, group, government agency other
than NRC or the Department of Energy, any state or any political subdivision
of, or any political entity within, a state, any foreign government or nation,
or any political subdivision of any such government or nation, or other entity,
and any legal successor, representative, agent or agency of the
foregoing.
(27) "Reviewing
official" means the individual who makes the trustworthiness and reliability
determination of an individual to determine whether the individual may have, or
continue to have, unescorted access to the Category 1 or Category 2 quantities
of radioactive materials that are possessed by the licensee.
(28) "Sabotage" means deliberate damage, with
malevolent intent, to a Category 1 or Category 2 quantity of radioactive
material, a device that contains a Category 1 or Category 2 quantity of
radioactive material, or the components of the security system.
(29) "Safe haven" means a readily
recognizable and readily accessible site at which security is present or from
which, in the event of an emergency, the transport crew can notify and wait for
the local law enforcement authorities.
(30) "Security zone" means any temporary or
permanent area determined and established by the licensee for the physical
protection of Category 1 or Category 2 quantities of radioactive
material.
(31) "State" means a
state of the United States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of
Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and the Commonwealth of
the Northern Mariana Islands.
(32)
"Telemetric position monitoring system" means a data transfer system that
captures information by instrumentation or measuring devices about the location
and status of a transport vehicle or package between the departure and
destination locations.
(33)
"Trustworthiness and reliability" are characteristics of an individual
considered dependable in judgment, character, and performance, such that
unescorted access to Category 1 or Category 2 quantities of radioactive
material by that individual does not constitute an unreasonable risk to the
public health and safety or security. A determination of trustworthiness and
reliability for this purpose is based upon the results from a background
investigation.
(34) "Unescorted
access" means solitary access to an aggregated Category 1 or Category 2
quantity of radioactive material or the devices that contain the
material.
(35) "United States"
means when used in a geographical sense includes Puerto Rico and all
territories and possessions of the United States.
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