compliance. The DOE Office of Environmental Management’s (EM) Radioactive Material Packaging (RAMPAC) website provides guidance for DOE use of NRC certified packages. For the purposes of training responders and conducting public information activities, shippers should provide the affected state agencies with general written information regarding the packaging they plan to use for shipments through the Midwestern region. Advance Notification of Shipments To facilitate long-term planning, the Midwestern states endorse DOE’s Prospective Shipment Report. For private shipments, similar information on upcoming shipments of spent nuclear fuel, transuranic waste, and other radioactive material should be provided to the states in an acceptable format. Shipper points of contact, possible transport mode and route(s), and the general time frame for shipments should also be provided to the potentially affected states. Spent Nuclear Fuel: Advance notification for spent nuclear fuel shipments regulated by the NRC or conducted by DOE under the Nuclear Waste Policy Act (NWPA) must adhere to the NRC’s regulations codified in 10 CFR 71.97, 10 CFR 73.37, and state requirements, and should adhere to other guidance. DOE shipments of spent nuclear fuel conducted outside of the NWPA, such as research reactor shipments, follow advance notification requirements in DOE Order 460.2B, Departmental Materials Transportation Management. Although useful for tracking DOE shipments, TRANSCOM should not be the only means of distributing the advance notification for DOE shipments. Governors’ designees may not wish to become a TRANSCOM user. It is important that recipients can “opt out” of TRANSCOM notifications and instead receive them through traditional means (i.e., mail, email, or phone call). In the event a shipment is canceled or the schedule changes by six hours or more, shippers must notify the governors’ designees
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