• hospitals and schools; • areas with difficult access (e.g., no room for fire equipment); • crowded parking areas (e.g., shopping malls and rest areas); • residential areas; • highway shoulders (for truck shipments); and • areas with numerous pedestrians. For shipments by truck, the carrier should not park on or within five feet of the traveled portion of a public street or highway except for brief periods when the necessities of operation require the vehicle to be parked and make it impractical to park the vehicle in any other place. For shipments of Category 1 material, as prescribed in 10 CFR 37.75, it is the shipper’s/licensee’s duty to identify and provide the states with a list of safe havens or safe parking areas. NRC NUREG-2155 defines a safe haven as a readily recognizable and readily accessible site at which security is present or from which, in the event of an emergency, the transport crew can notify and wait for the local law enforcement authorities. TRANSCOM/Shipment Tracking Shippers should use TRANSCOM, or other commercially available satellite tracking system, to track all shipments of spent nuclear fuel, high-level radioactive waste, and transuranic waste. In the event of operational problems, the shipper should follow the established backup procedures in their satellite tracking system’s user’s manual. Shippers should arrange for corridor states to have access to the system from the point of origin until one hour after the shipment has left the state’s jurisdiction. If the satellite tracking system is experiencing operational problems beyond those associated with individual users, shipments should not depart without the concurrence of all affected states.
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