**(a)** The Commission shall establish a system to ensure that materials described in subsection (b), when transferred or received in the United States by any party pursuant to an import or export license issued pursuant to this chapter, are accompanied by a manifest describing the type and amount of materials being transferred or received. Each individual receiving or accompanying the transfer of such materials shall be subject to a security background check conducted by appropriate Federal entities.
**(b)** Except as otherwise provided by the Commission by regulation, the materials referred to in subsection (a) are byproduct materials, source materials, special nuclear materials, high-level radioactive waste, spent nuclear fuel, transuranic waste, and low-level radioactive waste (as defined in [section 10101(16) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section10101/16&num=0&edition=prelim)).
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**(a)** The Commission shall establish a system to ensure that materials described in subsection (b), when transferred or received in the United States by any party pursuant to an import or export license issued pursuant to this chapter, are accompanied by a manifest describing the type and amount of materials being transferred or received. Each individual receiving or accompanying the transfer of such materials shall be subject to a security background check conducted by appropriate Federal entities.
**(b)** Except as otherwise provided by the Commission by regulation, the materials referred to in subsection (a) are byproduct materials, source materials, special nuclear materials, high-level radioactive waste, spent nuclear fuel, transuranic waste, and low-level radioactive waste (as defined in [section 10101(16) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section10101/16&num=0&edition=prelim)).
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§ 2210i. Secure transfer of nuclear materials
(a) The Commission shall establish a system
to ensure that materials described in subsection
(b), when transferred or received in the United
States by any party pursuant to an import or
export license issued pursuant to this chapter,
are accompanied by a manifest describing the
type and amount of materials being transferred
or received. Each individual receiving or accom-
panying the transfer of such materials shall be
subject to a security background check con-
ducted by appropriate Federal entities.
(b) Except as otherwise provided by the Com-
mission by regulation, the materials referred to
in subsection (a) are byproduct materials,
source materials, special nuclear materials,
high-level radioactive waste, spent nuclear fuel,
transuranic waste, and low-level radioactive
waste (as defined in section 10101(16) of this
title).
(Aug. 1, 1946, ch. 724, title I, § 170I, as added Pub.
L. 109–58, title VI, § 656(a), Aug. 8, 2005, 119 Stat.
813.)
Editorial Notes
REFERENCES IN TEXT
This chapter, referred to in subsec. (a), was in the
original ‘‘this Act’’, meaning act Aug. 1, 1946, ch. 724, as
added by act Aug. 30, 1954, ch. 1073, § 1, 68 Stat. 919,
known as the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, which is clas-
sified principally to this chapter. For complete classi-
fication of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note
set out under section 2011 of this title and Tables.
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
EFFECTIVE DATE
Pub. L. 109–58, title VI, § 656(c), Aug. 8, 2005, 119 Stat.
814, provided that: ‘‘The amendment made by sub-
section (a) [enacting this section] shall take effect
upon the issuance of regulations under subsection (b)
[set out below], except that the background check re-
quirement shall