OAR 333-118-0040: General Regulatory Provisions: Exemptions

(1) Common and contract carriers, freight forwarders, warehouse workers, and the U.S. Postal Service are exempt from the regulations in this division and divisions 102, 105, 113, 116, 121 and 125, and the requirements for a license to the extent that they transport or store radioactive material in the regular course of their carriage for others or storage incident thereto. Common and contract carriers who are not subject to the requirements of the U.S. Department of Transportation or U.S. Postal Service are subject to OAR 333-118-0030 and other applicable requirements of these rules. (2) Any licensee is exempt from the requirements of this division to the extent that the licensee delivers to a carrier for transport a package containing radioactive material having a specific activity not greater than (0.002 microcurie per gram 70 Becquerels per gram (Bq/g). (3) Any physician licensed under division 116 or by an Agreement State or the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to dispense radiopharmaceuticals in the practice of medicine, is exempt from OAR 333-118-0050 with respect to transporting licensed material for use in the practice of medicine.