MISSISSIPPI LEGISLATURE

2000 Regular Session

To: Public Health and Welfare

By: Representative Moody

AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 45-14-31, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, TO INCREASE THE SCHEDULE OF FEES FOR RADIOLOGICAL HEALTH LICENSES AND PERMITS; AND FOR RELATED PURPOSES.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI:

SECTION 1. Section 45-14-31, Mississippi Code of 1972, is amended as follows:

45-14-31. All initial application and registration fee and annual fees due under this section shall be paid directly to the agency for deposit into the Radiological Health Operations Fund in the State Treasury. The Mississippi State Board of Health shall submit its separate budget for carrying out the provisions of this chapter. Said budget shall be subject to and shall comply with the requirements of the state budget law. In order to supplement state radiological health budget allocations authorized to carry out and enforce the provisions of this chapter, the agency is hereby authorized to charge and collect fees in accordance with the following schedules:

Category Application Fee Annual Fee

I. Waste Disposal

(a) Licenses specifically $300,000.00 $300,000.00

authorizing the receipt of low-level

waste radioactive material from

other persons for the purpose of

commercial disposal by land burial

by the waste disposal licensee.

(b) Licenses specifically $ 2,000.00 $ 2,000.00

authorizing the receipt of waste

radioactive material from other

persons for the purpose of packaging

the material. The licensee will

dispose of the material by transfer

to another person authorized to receive

or dispose of the material.

(c) Licenses specifically $ 750.00 $ 750.00

authorizing the receipt of

prepackaged waste radioactive

material from other persons. The

licensee will dispose of the

material by transfer to another

person authorized to receive or

dispose of the material.

(d) Licenses specifically $ 2,000.00 $ 2,000.00

authorizing the receipt of waste

radioactive material from other

persons for the purpose of

super-compaction (compaction of

seven-fold or greater). The licensee

will dispose of the material by

transfer to another person authorized

to receive or dispose of the material.

(e) Licenses specifically $ 5,000.00 $ 5,000.00

authorizing the receipt of waste

radioactive material from other

persons for the purpose of

incineration. The licensee will

dispose of radioactive ash by

transfer to another person authorized

to receive or dispose of this material.

II. Nuclear Laundries

Licenses for commercial $ 3,000.00 $ 3,000.00

collection in laundries of items

contaminated with radioactive material.

III. Distributors of

Generally Licensed Devices

Licenses issued to distribute $ 2,000.00 $ 2,000.00

items containing radioactive

material to persons generally

licensed.

IV. Human Use

(a) Licenses issued for $ 750.00 $ 750.00

human use of radioactive material in

sealed sources contained in

teletherapy devices.

(b) Licenses issued to $ 750.00 $ 750.00

physicians or medical institutions

for human use of radioactive material

for diagnostic purposes only.

(c) Licenses issued to $ 850.00 $ 850.00

physicians or medical institutions

for human use of radioactive material

licenses in category IV(a).

(d) Licenses issued to $ 400.00 $ 400.00

service.

(e) Licenses specifically $ 1,200.00 $ 1,200.00

authorizing mobile nuclear medicine

IV(b) or IV(d).

(f) Licenses specifically $ 400.00 $ 400.00

V. Radiopharmacies

 * * * Licenses $ 2,300.00 $ 2,300.00

specifically authorizing the

processing or manufacturing and

distribution or redistribution of

radiopharmaceuticals, generators,

reagent kits and/or sources and

devices containing radioactive material.

VI. Industrial Radiography

Licenses issued for $ 2,100.00 $ 2,100.00

industrial radiography operations.

VII. Well Logging Operations

(a) Licenses for possession $ 1,800.00 $ 1,800.00

and use of radioactive material for well

logging and subsurface tracer studies.

(b) Licenses for possession $ 400.00 $ 400.00

and use of radioactive material in

markers including radioactive collars

and radioactive iron nails.

VIII. Irradiators

(a) Licenses for possession $ 600.00 $ 600.00

and use of radioactive material in

sealed sources for irradiation of

materials where the source is not

removed from its shield

(self-shielded units).

(b) Licenses for possession $ 3,000.00 $ 3,000.00

and use of radioactive material in

sealed sources for irradiation of

materials where the source is

exposed for irradiation purposes.

IX. Civil Defense

Licenses for possession and $ 500.00 $ 500.00

use of radioactive material for

Civil Defense activities.

X. Broad Scope Licenses

(a) Licenses of broad $ 900.00 $ 900.00

scope for possession and use of

radioactive material issued for

educational research and development

and instructional purposes.

(b) Licenses of broad $ 1,000.00 $ 1,000.00

scope for possession and use of

radioactive materials issued for human

use, medical research and development

and instructional purposes.

(c) Licenses of broad $ 1,500.00 $ 1,500.00

XI. Research and Development

(a) Licenses for possession $ 500.00 $ 500.00

and use of radioactive material for

educational research and development

and instructional purposes.

(b) Licenses for possession $ 750.00 $ 750.00

and use of radioactive material for

industrial research and development.

XII. Industrial Gauges

(a) Licenses for possession $ 600.00 $ 600.00

and use of fixed in-plant gauge(s)

containing radioactive material.

(b) Licenses for possession $ 600.00 $ 600.00

and use of pipe wall thickness gauge(s)

containing radioactive material.

(c) Licenses for possession $ 600.00 $ 600.00

and use of portable densitometer(s)

containing radioactive material.

(d) Licenses for possession $ 450.00 $ 450.00

and use of portable industrial gauge(s)

containing radioactive material except

categories XII(b) and (c).

XIII. Licenses for possession $ 1,000.00 $ 1,000.00

and use of radioactive material for

the performance of environmental

tracer studies.

XIV. Licenses authorizing $ 600.00 $ 600.00

the installation, removal, repair

and maintenance of gauge(s) containing

radioactive material.

XV. Licenses authorizing $ 275.00 $ 275.00

the use of radioactive material

contained in gas chromatographs.

XVI. Licenses specifically $ 2,500.00 $ 2,500.00

authorizing decommissioning,

decontamination, reclamation,

or site restoration activities.

XVII. Licenses specifically $ 700.00 $ 700.00

authorizing the removal of

radioactive material from oil and/or

gas tubing and equipment.

XVIII. All other specific $ 400.00 $ 400.00

licenses other than those

specified above.

XIX. Additional permanent sites 10% of 10% of

where radioactive material is applicable applicable

stored or used under same license. fee fee

Initial registration and annual fees for the receipt, possession or use of radioactive material under a general license shall be per registration as follows:

(a) Certain measuring, $ 150.00 $ 150.00

gauging and controlling device(s).

(b) Generally licensed gas $ 100.00 $ 100.00

chromatographs.

(c) Static elimination $ 100.00 $ 100.00

device(s) and ion generating tube(s).

(d) Source material. $ 100.00 $ 100.00

(e) Depleted Uranium. $ 100.00 $ 100.00

(f) In Vitro testing $ 100.00 $ 100.00

and clinical labs.

(g) All other general $ 100.00 $ 100.00

license registrations other than

those specified above.

Fees for the initial registration and annual renewal fees of each x-ray tube shall be as follows:

X-RAY TUBES

I. Healing Arts and Veterinary Medicine $ 50.00

II. Nonhealing Arts

(a) Industrial, other than $ 75.00

Industrial Radiography

(b) Educational $ 60.00

Fees for the initial registration and annual fees for industrial radiography x-ray devices shall be Four Hundred Fifty Dollars ($450.00).

Each person who assembles, installs or services radiation machines within the State of Mississippi shall pay an annual registration fee of Two Hundred Fifty Dollars ($250.00).

Fees for the initial registration and annual fees of each accelerator shall be Five Hundred Fifty Dollars ($550.00).

Fees for initial registration and annual fees for * * * neutron generators shall be Four Hundred Dollars ($400.00).

A person possessing a Nuclear Regulatory Commission license or permit authorizing a nuclear reactor in the State of Mississippi for commercial production of electrical energy utilizing special nuclear material sufficient to form a critical mass, shall pay an annual fee of Seventeen Dollars ($17.00) per megawatt (thermal) rating for each such reactor so licensed or permitted. When more than one (1) reactor is on the same site, the fee or sum of each additional reactor after the first shall be Five Dollars ($5.00) per megawatt (thermal).

An out-of-state person possessing:

(a) A license from the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission;

(b) A license or registration from an Agreement State or Licensing State; or

(c) A registration or permit from a state radiological health program; and who enters the State of Mississippi to conduct the activities authorized in such license, registration or permit shall pay an annual fee in accordance with the above fee schedules.

Fees for the initial registration and annual renewal of each unit of tanning equipment shall be Thirty-five Dollars ($35.00).

SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after July 1, 2000.