On November 01, 2005, a Notice of Violation and Proposed Imposition of Civil Penalty in the amount of $3,250 was issued for a Severity Level III problem involving the failures to adequately survey, secure and dispose of licensed material in accordance with NRC requirements. Specifically, the licensee received a package containing seven analytical samples of uranium-235, identified six of the seven samples shipped, and performed an unsuccessful cursory search for the seventh sample. After initiating a more thorough search, the licensee concluded that the seventh sample had been disposed of with the packaging as normal trash.