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10 C.F.R. § 1.42   Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards.

Title 10 - Energy

Title 10: Energy
PART 1—STATEMENT OF ORGANIZATION AND GENERAL INFORMATION
Subpart B—Headquarters
Program Offices

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§ 1.42   Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards.

(a) The Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards is responsible for protecting the public health and safety, the common defense and security, and the environment by licensing, inspection, and environmental impact assessment for all nuclear facilities and activities, and for the import and export of special nuclear material.

(b) The Office responsibilities include—

(1) Development and promulgation of regulations;

(2) Development and implementation of NRC policy for the regulation of activities involving safety, quality, approval, and inspection of the use and handling of nuclear and other radioactive materials, such as uranium activities;

(3) Fuel fabrication and fuel development;

(4) Medical, industrial, academic, and commercial uses of radioactive isotopes;

(5) Safeguards activities;

(6) Transportation of nuclear materials, including certification of transport containers;

(7) Out-of-reactor spent fuel storage;

(8) Safe management and disposal of low-level and high-level radioactive wastes;

(9) Planning and direction of program for financial assurance of NMSS licensees; and

(10) Management of the decommissioning of facilities and sites when their licensed functions are over.

(c) Safeguards responsibilities include—

(1) Development of overall agency policy;

(2) Monitoring and assessment of the threat environment, including liaison with intelligence agencies, as appropriate; and

(3) Those licensing and review activities appropriate to deter and protect against threats of radiological sabotage and threats of theft or diversion of special nuclear material at fuel facilities and during transport.

(d) The Office identifies and takes action to control safety and safeguards issues for activities under its responsibility, including consulting and coordinating with international, Federal, State, and local agencies, as appropriate.

[52 FR 31602, Aug. 21, 1987. Redesignated at 57 FR 1639, Jan. 15, 1992, as amended at 63 FR 69544, Dec. 17, 1998]

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