On February 6, 2014, the NRC issued a Notice of Violation and Proposed Imposition of Civil Penalty in the amount of $3,500 to Valley Quarries Inc. (VQI), for a Severity Level III Problem for three related violations. The three violations involved VQI's willful failure to: (1) secure the gauge containing radioactive materials to prevent from shifting during transport as required by 10 CFR 71.5; (2) control and maintain constant surveillance of the gauge that is in an unrestricted area as required by 10 CFR 20.1802; and (3) use two independent physical controls that form tangible barriers to secure the gauge from unauthorized removal in accordance with 30.34(i). Specifically, on May 3, 2013, VQI, a licensee of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, while working under reciprocity in a non-Agreement State, did not secure a portable gauge containing licensed materials to prevent shifting while transporting it in the back of a pickup truck over a public highway, an unrestricted area, in West Virginia. Consequently, the gauge fell out of the truck bed on a highway and was left unsecured in an area not controlled by the licensee. The gauge was found by a member of the public who subsequently returned it to the licensee through the Agreement State regulator.