RE: 10 CFR 20

["Sewell, Linda" <LMS1@pge.com>]

Hi Daren,

I am not sure exactly what you question is, but I'll put my 2 cents worth in
here.  Prior to the change, termination letters, essentially an NRC Form-5,
had to be sent to monitored workers and the NRC within very tight time
constraints.  For power plants with our outages, that involved a lot of
paper shuffling in a short time frame.  The NRC only got monitoring
information for the "migrant" nuclear workforce since our regular employees
didn't get these termination letters.  The revision to 10CFR20 did a couple
of things, that in my opinion as a licensee, simplified that whole process.
First, all monitored workers get a yearly notification of their radiation
exposure via an NRC Form-5, and the immediate term letters were no longer
longer required unless requested.  Second, the NRC gets a compacted version
of that information at the same time.  It includes all monitored workers and
is in a format that allows easy migration to REIRS, the NRC informational
database for radiation exposure information.  For most licensees, creating
this involves the press of a button.  All in all, from a Dosimetry reporting
standpoint, the revision to 10CFR20 actually streamlined our process. 

Hope this sheds some light.

Linda 

Linda M. Sewell, CHP
Diablo Canyon Power Plant
MS 119/1/122
PO Box 56
Avila Beach,  CA  93424
805.545.4315 (voice)
805.545.2618 (fax)
mailto:lms1@pge.com

  

-----Original Message-----
From: Perrero, Daren [mailto:Perrero@idns.state.il.us]
Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2001 7:31 AM
To: Multiple recipients of list
Subject: RE: 10 CFR 20


Many thanks to Barb and the lead she provided.  There's a new twist....

I've managed to track down the 1991 Fed Reg in our archives but
unfortunately the SOC for that section indicates that this requirement for
reporting exposures by "high activity" licensees is actually taken from
previous regulations (10 CFR 20.408).  So unless someone out there may have
some historical knowledge.  I'm afraid the reason for this regulation will
have been lost.

Any help is appreciated.

All messages sent from this email account, regardless of their content,
are purely a personal remark/query and in no way reflect any official
standing of the IDNS. 

The thoughts expressed are mine, mine, all mine!
I'm with the government, I'm here to help........
Daren Perrero, Health Physicist
perrero@idns.state.il.us


-----Original Message-----
From: BLHamrick@aol.com [mailto:BLHamrick@aol.com]
Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2001 5:43 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list
Subject: Re: 10 CFR 20


In a message dated Tue, 30 Jan 2001  6:06:26 PM Eastern Standard Time,
"Perrero, Daren" <Perrero@idns.state.il.us> writes:

<< Being in an agreement state its hard to come by "statements of
consideration" for Fed Regs.  Are these available on-line anywhere?

My specific question is, what was the explanation behind 10CFR20.2206
regarding annual reporting of doses to the NRC for "high activity"
licensees?>>

Statements of consideration can be found in the federal register with the
publication of the final rule starting in 1995 (see:
http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/aces/aces140.html).

Unfortunately, this particular rule was published May 21, 1991.  The fed.
reg. page for comments on section 20.2206 is 23385-6, Vol. 56, No. 98.

Barbara L. Hamrick
BLHamrick@aol.com



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