EPA & NRC

["Daniel F. Kane" <dankane@mindspring.com>]

Rodger: 

The EPA, not the NRC, has the responsibility to advise the President with
respect to all radiation matters, directly or indirectly affecting health,
including guidance for all Federal Agencies in the formulation of radiation
standards and in the establishment and execution of programs of cooperations
with the States. This authority stems from Executive Order 10831; the Atomic
Energy Act of 1954 as Amended; and Reorganization Plan No. 3 of 1970. The
EPA provides guidance for all sources of radiation exposure, interacts and
in some cases provides standards for the NRC, DOE, NASA, DOD, Interior, HHS
to name a few. All of these agencies (and others) get involved in the
"radiation business" at some level.

"The purpose of EPA guidance is to provide a common framework to help ensure
that the regulation of exposure to ionizing radiation is carried out by all
Federal Agencies in a consistent and adequately protective manner. The
details it seems, are left to the agency but the EPA guidance is the basic,
minimum requirements. The guidance has historically consisted of both
qualitative and quanitiative reccomendations expressed as Federal Radiaton
Protection Guides." EPA commentary, not mine.

There was not battle to be won or lost, rather the EPA continues in the same
role it always has had, as the refrences below show.

Journal of Nuclear Medicine Technology, Vol.24, No.1, March, 1996 and the
Federal Register, Volume 59, No. 246 page 66414 and 66415.

Daniel F. Kane
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