La. Admin. Code tit. 33 § XV-430

Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 12, December 20, 2024

Section XV-430 - General

A. Each licensee or registrant shall make, or cause to be made, surveys of areas, including the subsurface, that:

1. may be necessary for the licensee or registrant to comply with this Chapter; and

2. are reasonable under the circumstances to evaluate:

a. the magnitude and extent of radiation levels;

b. concentrations or quantities of radioactive material; and

c. the potential radiological hazards of the radiation levels and residual radioactivity detected.

B. The licensee or registrant shall ensure that instruments and equipment used for quantitative radiation measurements, for example, dose rate and effluent monitoring, are calibrated at intervals not to exceed 12 months, except when a more frequent interval is specified in another applicable chapter of these regulations or a license condition.

C. Personnel Dosimeter Processing

1. All personnel dosimeters, except for direct and indirect reading pocket ionization chambers and those dosimeters used to measure the dose to any extremity, that require processing to determine the radiation dose and that are used by licensees and registrants to comply with LAC 33:XV.410, with other applicable provisions of these regulations, or with conditions specified in a license or registration shall be processed and evaluated by a dosimetry processor:

a. holding current personnel dosimetry accreditation from the National Voluntary Laboratory Accreditation Program (NVLAP) of the National Institute of Standards and Technology; and

b. approved in this accreditation process for the type of radiation or radiations included in the NVLAP program that most closely approximates the type of radiation or radiations for which the individual wearing the dosimeter is monitored.

2. Dosimetry reports received from the processor must be recorded and maintained indefinitely or until the Office of Environmental Compliance terminates the license.

3. No licensee or registrant shall subtract radiation exposures from official personnel monitoring records without the prior written approval of the department.

D. The licensee or registrant shall ensure that adequate precautions are taken to prevent a deceptive exposure of an individual monitoring device.

E. Notwithstanding LAC 33:XV.472.A, records from surveys describing the location and amount of subsurface residual radioactivity identified at the site shall be kept with records important for decommissioning, and such records shall be retained in accordance with LAC 33:XV.325.D.9 as applicable.

La. Admin. Code tit. 33, § XV-430

Promulgated by the Department of Environmental Quality, Office of Air Quality and Radiation Protection, Radiation Protection Division, LR 19:1421 (November 1993), amended LR 20:653 (June 1994), LR 22:971 (October 1996), amended by the Office of Environmental Assessment, Environmental Planning Division, LR 29:1468 (August 2003), amended by the Office of the Secretary, Legal Affairs Division, LR 31:2529 (October 2005), LR 33:2181 (October 2007), Amended by the Office of the Secretary, Legal Affairs Division, LR 412134 (10/1/2015), Amended LR 501821 (12/1/2024).

AUTHORITY NOTE: Promulgated in accordance with R.S. 30:2001 et seq., and 2104(B).