US NRC Final Rule on Criteria for the Release of IndividualsAdministered Radioactive Material

["Michael P. Grissom" <mikeg@SLAC.Stanford.EDU>]

The following is a partial extract of the FR final rule notice:

>Federal Register: January 29, 1997 (Volume 62, Number 19, 4120).
>
>Section: Rules and Regulations
>Agency: NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
>
>Title: Criteria for the Release of Individuals Administered Radioactive
Material
>Action: Final rule.
>
>NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
>
>10 CFR Parts 20 and 35
>
>SUMMARY: The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is amending its
>regulations concerning the criteria for the release of patients administered
>radioactive material. The new criteria for patient release are based on the
>potential dose to other individuals exposed to the patient. The new criteria
>are consistent with the recommendations of the National Council on
>Radiation Protection and Measurements (NCRP) and the International
>Commission on Radiological Protection (ICRP). This final rule requires the
>licensee to provide written instructions to patients on how to maintain the
>doses to others as low as is reasonably achievable if the total effective
>dose equivalent to any other individual exposed to the released patient is
>likely to exceed 1 millisievert (0.1 rem). This final rule responds to three
>petitions for rulemaking regarding the criteria for release of patients
>administered radioactive material.
>
>EFFECTIVE DATE: May 29, 1997.
>
>ADDRESSES: Copies of Regulatory Guide 8.39, "Release of Patients
>Administered Radioactive Materials"; the final regulatory analysis,
>NUREG-1492, "Regulatory Analysis on Criteria for the Release of Patients
>Administered Radioactive Material" (1997); Revision 2 of NUREG/BR-0058,
>"Regulatory Analysis Guidelines of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
>Commission" (1996); and the public comments received on the proposed
>rule may be examined and copied for a fee in the Commission's Public
>Document Room at 2120 L Street NW. (Lower Level), Washington, DC.
>Single copies of Regulatory Guide 8.39 may be obtained free of charge by
>writing the Office of Administration, Attn: Distribution and Services
Section,
>USNRC, Washington, DC 20555, or by fax at (301) 415- 2260. Single copies
>of NUREG-1492 and NUREG/BR-0058 may be purchased at current rates
>from the U.S. Government Printing Office, P.O. Box 37082, Washington,
>DC 20402-9328 (telephone (202) 512-1800); or from the National Technical
>Information Service at 5285 Port Royal Road, Springfield, VA 22161.
>
>FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Stewart Schneider, Office of
>Nuclear Regulatory Research, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission,
>Washington, DC 20555, telephone (301) 415-6225.

The total FR document is about 24 HTML Web pages long!


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Michael P. Grissom
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