2017 Annual Count of Active Radioactive Materials Licenses in the National Materials Program

UNITED STATES

NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20555-0001

October XX, 2017

ALL AGREEMENT STATES, WYOMING, VERMONT

ANNUAL COUNT OF ACTIVE RADIOACTIVE MATERIAL LICENSES IN THE NATIONAL MATERIALS PROGRAM (STC-17-xxx)

Purpose: To update the count of radioactive material specific licenses, general licenses/registrations, and generally-licensed devices currently active in the National Materials Program.

Background: Annually, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) requests that all Agreement States provide the number of specific radioactive material licenses currently active under their jurisdiction. Additionally, the NRC is requesting that all Agreement States who have regulations compatible with 10 CFR 31.5, regarding general licenses, update the total number of general licenses/registrations and generally-licensed devices currently active under their jurisdiction.

Discussion: The latest count of specific material licenses in the National Materials Program as of November 30, 2016, is provided in Enclosure 1. Please revise the total number of currently active specific material licenses under your State’s jurisdiction, and indicate how many of those licenses are industrial, medical, or academic licenses.

An estimate of the latest count of active general licenses/registrations and generally-licensed devices in the National Materials Program is provided in Enclosure 2. The NRC is requesting that all Agreement States who have regulations compatible with 10 CFR 31.5 update: 1) the total number of general licenses and, if applicable, the number of those licenses which are formally registered, and 2) the approximate number of

generally-licensed devices currently active under their jurisdiction.

We would appreciate your email response providing the updated count of specific licenses and general licenses to the point of contact below within 30 days of the date of this letter.¹

If you have any questions regarding this communication, please contact the individual named below:

POINT OF CONTACT: Jeffery Lynch E-MAIL: [email protected]

TELEPHONE: (301) 415-5041

/RA/

Daniel S. Collins, Director

Division of Material Safety, State, Tribal

and Rulemaking Programs

Office of Nuclear Material Safety

and Safeguards

Enclosures:

1. Active Agreement State and

NRC Specific Licenses

2. Active Agreement State and

NRC General Licenses

Agreement State and NRC Specific Radioactive Material Licenses by NRC Region
November 30, 2016
Region I				Region IV
	State	NRC			State	NRC
Alabama	388	16		Alaska	0	66
Connecticut	0	138		Arizona	339	11
Delaware	0	43		Arkansas	208	6
District of Columbia	0	32		California	1762	59
Florida	1620	26		Colorado	319	19
Georgia	414	22		Guam	0	7
Kentucky	364	12		Hawaii	0	58
Maine	103	4		Idaho	0	73
Maryland	537	82		Kansas	272	13
Massachusetts	424	31		Louisiana	459	10
New Hampshire	86	3		Mississippi	286	7
New Jersey	573	35		Montana	0	84
New York	1310	22		Nebraska	140	5
North Carolina	578	24		Nevada	242	2
Pennsylvania	631	46		New Mexico	214	13
Puerto Rico	0	117		North Dakota	89	4
Rhode Island	44	2		Oklahoma	231	16
South Carolina	364	15		Oregon	271	5
Tennessee	526	22		South Dakota	0	36
Vermont	0	33		Texas	1493	47
Virgin Islands	0	8		Utah	190	10
Virginia	398	57		Washington	332	16
West Virginia	0	161		Wyoming	0	87
Total	8,360	951		Total	6,847	654
Region III
	State	NRC
Illinois	625	32		Total materials licenses in Agreement State jurisdiction		17,017
Indiana	0	239
Iowa	164	2		Total materials licenses in NRC jurisdiction		2,622
Michigan	0	430
Minnesota	136	15		Total materials licenses in the United States		19,639
Missouri	0	246
Ohio	593	41
Wisconsin	292	12
				Agreement State
Total	1,810	1,017

Agreement State and NRC Specific Radioactive Material Licenses by NRC Region

Count of Industrial, Medical, and Academic Licenses

November 30, 2016

Agreement State and NRC Active General Licenses*

November 30, 2016

	General Licenses/ Registrations	Estimated Number of GL Devices
Alabama	200	900
Arizona	22	22
Arkansas	53	106
California	75	670
Colorado	885	10,029
Florida	277	929
Georgia	120	140
Illinois	321	1,094
Iowa	127	437
Kansas	48	198
Kentucky	133	532
Louisiana	88	88
Maine	157	537
Maryland	86	711
Massachusetts	746	4,671
Minnesota	57	700
Mississippi	95	148
Nebraska	140	2,173
Nevada	25	1,612
New Hampshire	n/a	2,500
New Jersey	1,790	8,849
New Mexico	2	2
New York	173	173
North Carolina	1,337	1,337
North Dakota	0	0
Ohio	177	1,152
Oklahoma	40	40

	General Licenses/ Registrations	Estimated Number of GL Devices
Oregon	49	80
Pennsylvania	178	655
Rhode Island	14	37
South Carolina	400	2,500
Tennessee	230	1,106
Texas	216	2,068
Utah	52	52
Virginia	74	445
Washington	362	362
Wisconsin	4,320	15,124

	General Licenses/ Registrations	Estimated Number of GL Devices
Agreement States	13,069	62,179
NRC	18,000	157,703
Total	31,069	219,882

n/a = not reported

*Note – The numbers provided are only estimates.

Methods for tracking general licenses/registrations and

generally-licensed devices may vary substantially by

Agreement State.

1 This information request has been approved by OMB 3150-0029 expiration 1/31/2019. The estimated burden per response to comply with this voluntary collection is approximately 8 hours. Send comment regarding the burden estimate to the Information Services Branch (T-5F53), U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001, or by e-mail to [email protected], and to the Desk Officer, Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, NEOB-10202 (3150-0029), Office of Management and Budget, Washington, DC 20503. If a means used to impose an information collection does not display a currently valid OMB control number, the NRC may not conduct or sponsor, and a person is not required to respond to, the information collection.