On September 26, 2002, a Notice of Violation and Proposed Imposition of Civil Penalty in the amount of $3,000 was issued for a Severity Level III problem involving the failure to properly prepare (block and brace) a moisture density gauge (that included 8 millicuries of cesium-137 and 40 millicuries of americium-241/beryllium) for transport that resulted in the gauge being lost and the failure to immediately notify the NRC. Although the civil penalty would have been fully mitigated based on the normal civil penalty assessment process, a base civil penalty was assessed in accordance with Section VII.A.1.g of the Enforcement Policy to reflect the significance of maintaining the control of licensed material.