Section 11-45-217 - Design, performance, and certification criteria for sealed sources used in downhole operations(a) Each sealed source, except those containing radioactive material in gaseous form, used in downhole operations and manufactured one year after the effective date of this chapter shall be certified by the manufacturer, or other testing organization acceptable to the department, to meet the following minimum criteria: (1) Be of doubly encapsulated construction;(2) Contain radioactive material whose chemical and physical forms are as insoluble and non-dispersible as practical; and(3) Has been individually pressure tested to at least 24,656 pounds per square inch absolute (one hundred seventy MN/m2) without failure.(b) For sealed sources, except those containing radioactive material in gaseous form, acquired one year after the effective date of this chapter, in the absence of a certificate from a transferor certifying that an individual sealed source meets the requirements of subsection (a), the sealed source shall not be put into use until such determinations and testing have been performed.(c) Each sealed source, except those containing radioactive material in gaseous form, used in downhole operations two years after the effective date of this chapter shall be certified by the manufacturer, or other testing organization acceptable to the department, as meeting the sealed source performance requirements for oil well-logging as contained in the American National Standard N43.6, "Classification of Sealed Radioactive Sources," formerly N542, ANSI/NBS 126.(d) Certification documents shall be maintained for inspection by the department for three years. If the source is abandoned downhole, the certification documents shall be maintained until the department authorizes disposition.[Eff 11/12/99] (Auth: HRS §§ 321-10, 321-11, 321-71) (Imp: HRS §§ 321-1, 321-11(21), 321-71)