Prohibited Items

Many nuclear inspection teams have visited Iraq to inspect facilities, interview key personnel, inventory nuclear materials, identify prohibited items and carry out destruction and removal operations. 

This paper analyses the effectiveness of equipment (x-ray devices) used to detect prohibited items in registered and hand baggage. 

A current list of prohibited items is included in the Candidate Agreement on the NCEES Web site. If a prohibited item is found in an examinee s possession after the exam begins, or if an examinee is found to be using a writing instrument other than the NCEES-supplied pencil, the item will be confiscated, the examinee will be dismissed from the exam, his or her exam will not be scored, and no refund will be provided. All confiscated items will be sent to NCEES. 

Statutory requirements may apply to the prohibition of items from certain countries, power supply ratings, security provisions, markings, and certain notices. 

With a few exceptions, the use of major item classifications (declaration of meats, cereals, etc.) is prohibited. 

This downtime can be avoided by installing alternate pieces of equipment that can be immediately put into service when an item fails. If this is done for all pieces of equipment, it is almost equivalent to building a spare plant. The cost of this would of course be prohibitive. Usually for large plants a spare piece of equipment will be installed only when the equipment is expected to break down frequently. 

Liquids are most economically stored in bulk containers. When large quantities above 25,000 gal must be stored, the tanks should be constructed to the dimensions given by the American Petroleum Institute Standards (see Table 5-2). These tanks must be field-erected. For smaller quantities more economical shop-constructed tanks should be specified. Field fabrication is always more expensive than shop fabrication. A shop-constructed item, in general, must be less than 11.5 ft (3.5 m) in diameter, so that it can be shipped by truck or train. For any piece of equipment that must be shop-fabricated, or for which the cost of field construction is prohibitive, this limitation should be noted. When barges may be used for transportation, this limitation does not hold. 

Table 2.4 summarizes the above in terms of a shopping list for new items. It is once again emphasized that the numbers are to be understood as indicative (e.g., not for use in grant proposals). And recall that old spectrometers are not necessarily inferior at all to new ones, and they can be very cheap if standing in someone s way. Also, items such as frequency counters up to X-band appear regularly as second hand offers on the Internet for a fraction of their new price. And finally, the table does not show possible hidden costs, that is, of items that are taken for granted because they already happen to be around, but whose budgeting may be prohibitive when they have to be acquired, for example, square meters of lab space or dedicated operators. 

Waste Disposal Method Open pit burning or burying of VX or items containing or contaminated with VX in any quantity is prohibited. The detoxified VX(using procedures above) can be thermally destroyed by in a EPA approved incinerator according to appropriate provisions of Federal, State, or local Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) regulations. 

Open pit burning or burying of HD or items containing or contaminated with HD in any quantity is prohibited. 

The final element of this federal impact on confidentiality is that certain laws require certain things to be made public. The Toxic Substances Control Act has several useful confidentiality provisions in 14, but it adversely affects confidentiality when it prohibits the EPA withholding of health and safety "studies." That term is not well defined at all. There are conflicting views about which items are "studies." From a careful reexamination of the law, I feel that identity can be confidential and need not be part of a study, if the... 

Reply paid cards which refer to representatives delivering items which have been offered to health professionals or appropriate administrative staff should explain that there is no obligation to grant the representative an interview when the item is delivered. This is to avoid the impression that there is such an obligation, which would be contrary to Clause 15.3 which prohibits the use of any inducement to gain an interview. 

Amazingly, no such protocol existed in the UK before 1988, when it was difficult to prevent dangerous, imported fireworks from reaching the shop shelves. Thus, unsuspecting consumers could, in theory at least, purchase items containing prohibited mixtures of, say, sulfur and potassium chlorate and drop them onto the back seat of the family saloon where they could ignite without warning. 

Many flammable gases and solvents commonly used for instrument calibration or as sorbent media are prohibited from transportation on common carriers by Department of Transportation (DOT) regulations (8). The industrial hygienist should review the equipment inventory for each survey to ensure against potential conflicts with DOT regulations. Express parcel carriers and even commercial airlines can occasionally transport normally restricted materials if prior arrangements are made. Items that are restricted can be transported by some other means or procured at the scene. 

To pick up the story of the modem-day Dope, Incorporated, let us return to Cleveland and John Torrio s first 1928 meeting of the syndicate. The third item on the agenda was what to do after Prohibition. The commodity, Torrio proposed, that would replace liquor as the black-market, big-profit taker was narcotics. 

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