Re: NRC License Amendment (RSO Change)

["Frank E. Gallagher, III" <fegallag@uci.edu>]

Tad Blanchard wrote:
>For those of you with NRC broadscope licenses...
>
>	How much time does the Radiation Safety Committee have to designate a
>"new" RSO via license amendment, if the old RSO leaves the facility without
>warning?  
>
It must vary greatly from state to state and NRC region to NRC region.  When
I left UC Santa Barbara to accept a higher level job at UC Irvine in 1989,
the EH&S leadership at UCSB decided to appoint an interim RSO (who was not
qualified by either education or experience to be permanent RSO) for an
extended period of time (~2+ years) for salary savings.  Most of the health
physics work was done by three part-time student assistants during this
period.  As I understand it, the students even prepared the application for
license renewal (broad-scope type A).

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