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Training Courses

Quality Assurance for Radioactive Material Packaging: QA training and practical experience for DOE personnel and contractors who are required to develop and implement a QA plan or prepare the QA chapter of a Safety Analysis Report for Packaging (SARP). This course is sponsored by the US DOE and presented by Argonne National Laboratory. The three-day course is scheduled for June 24-26, 2008 at Argonne National Laboratory in Argonne, Illinois USA. Online registration is available until June 10^th.

CTMA 44th Annual Workshop: The Contractor Transportation Management Association provides conference presentations, vendor exibits, council meetings and DOE Directives training. The five-day conference/workshop is scheduled for June 9-13, 2008 at the Doral Desert Princess Resort in Palm Springs, California. Registration is available until May 30^th.

INMM 49th Annual Meeting: The Institute of Nuclear Materials Management provides a professional forum for the exchange of the latest technical information in nuclear materials management. The meeting addresses all aspects of nuclear materials management with papers and posters organized by the INMM Technical Program Committee and will be held July 13-17, 2008 at the Nashville Convention Center and Renaissance Hotel Nashville, Tennessee USA.

DOE News

UCID-21218, Rev. 3, Packaging Review Guide for Reviewing Safety Analysis Reports for Packagings, dated February 2008: Commonly known as the "PRG," the guidance document was updated to reflect changes in applicable DOE Orders.

http://OTAC.doeal.gov: The NNSA Service Center's Packaging Certification Division (PCD) is pleased to announce its new NNSA Packaging Web Site.
In addition, http://scprod.na.gov/OTAC is an intranet site available only to personnel with access to the NNSA Service Center intranet. Such personnel needing access to the new NNSA Packaging Web Site intranet application should submit their requests to Ms. June Storey, National Security Department, at jstorey@doeal.gov.

For answers to questions about the new websites, please contact Maximo Barela at mbarela@doeal.gov, or Glen Ellenwood at gellenwood@doeal.gov.

NRC Costs for NRC Certificates with DOE the Certificate Holders: Fee payment responsibility memorandum from the Headquarters Certifying Official, dated May 14, 2007.

Requirements for Owners and Users of DOE Certificates: Recent implementation of directives from DOE Order 460.1B.

Packaging Decertification Checklist: Revised the list of actions to be followed by the DOE program sponsor of a Type: B or fissile material packaging certified by DOE or NRC, when it has been determined that continued certification of the packaging is no longer required.

All DOE Certificate of Compliance holders should be aware of the new packaging marking requirements in 49 CFR 172.310(a) through (e) that went into effect on October 1, 2004 as a result of HM-230. If any packaging drawings, or any other information in the approved SARP, need to be revised to reflect the new data plate information, the SARP should be revised to reflect the new drawings and/or other information, and the revised SARP submitted to the DOE Packaging Certification Program (EM-63) for review. After Review by the DOE PCP and approval by the HCO (EM-60), the HCO will sign and the DOE PCP will issue a revised CoC to reference the updated SARP.
No shipments should be made with a packaging that does not comply with the new 49 CFR 172.310 requirements.

The new 10 CFR Part 71 rulemaking, which went into effect October 1, 2004, contains a number of new requirements of significant interest to the Department of Energy packaging and transportation community. Among these is the expansion of Part 71 quality assurance requirements to Certificate of Compliance (CoC) holders and applicants for a CoC (referred to as Issue 13 in the rulemaking).
DOE organizations are strongly encouraged to read the rulemaking and ensure that their contractors and subcontractors involved in the design, fabrication, assembly, testing, maintenance, repair, modification, or use of packagings have implemented quality assurance programs that meet the applicable requirements of Subpart H of Part 71.

DOT News

Second correction to the January 26, 2004 DOT Final Rule, published October 1, 2004.

First correction to the January 26, 2004 DOT Final Rule, published September 13, 2004.

Minor editorial corrections and clarifications to the DOT Hazardous Materials Regulations, published September 7, 2004.

DOT Final Rule 49 CFR Parts 171, 171, et al. Hazardous Materials Regulations; Compatibility with the Regulations of the International Atomic Energy Agency; Final Rule, published January 26, 2004.

NRC News

NRC Regulatory Issue Summary RIS 2007-09: Examples of Recurring Requests for Additional Information (RAIS) for 10 CFR Part 71 and 72 Applications, dated May 4, 2007.

NRC Information Notice 2005-13, Potential Non-Conservative Error in Modeling Geometric Regions in the Keno-V.a Criticality Code, dated May 17, 2005.

NRC Information Notice 2005-10, Changes to 10 CFR Part 71 Packages, dated April 7, 2005.

The NRC has published new revisions of two foundational regulatory guides:

Regulatory Guide 7.9, Standard Format and Content of Part 71 Applications for Approval of Packages for Radioactive Material, Revision 2, dated March 2005.

Regulatory Guide 7.10, Establishing Quality Assurance Programs for Packaging Used in Transport of Radioactive Material, Revision 2, dated March 2005.

NRC Final Rule, 10 CFR Part 71 Compatibility with IAEA Transportation Safety Standards (TS-R-1) and Other Transportation Safety Amendments: Final Rule, published January 26, 2004.

Correction to the January 26, 2004 NRC Final Rule, published September 29, 2004.

NUREG/BR-0292, NRC brochure on Safety of Spent Fuel Transportation, published March 2003.

IAEA News

Denial of Shipments-Steering Committee Documents: Links to PDF files from June 2007 and zip file of the November 2006 Meeting.

PACKTRAM, the IAEA's database of Competent Authority package approval certificates.
(The website is down -- IAEA plans to restore it but has not identified a target date.)

IAEA List 35, National Competent Authorities Responsible for Approvals and Authorizations in Respect of the Transport of Radioactive Materials, Published 2004.

TS-R-1, IAEA Regulations for the Safe Transport of Radioactive Material, 1996 Edition (as Amended 2003), published 2004.

TS-G-1.1 (ST-2), Advisory Material for the IAEA Regulations for the Safe Transport of Radioactive Material, published 2002.

Click here for detailed information on the IAEA Transport Safety Unit's program of work.

Packaging Certification News Archive

Updated June 3, 2008