Need Interpretation On Radon Testing Licensing Rules

[Peter Collopy <pcollopy@mjwcorp.com>]

For those of you who ever get involved in radon testing has it been your 
experience that the licensing laws in the various states apply to any form of 
radon testing no matter what the purpose or the location ?

The reason I ask this question is I just got an interpretation back from a 
state agency (who will remain nameless) that simply appears so broad that any 
HP at a uranium or thorium facility as well as those at Universities would be 
required to be licensed if they either 1) ran a radon test or 2) told anyone 
about the health effects of radon exposure.

I would also appreciate hearing from state agency folks who have had to got 
through the hassle of interpreting and applying their radon licensing rules. 
the states I have had to deal with up to this point have never had such a broad 
interpretation. i.e. I was always lead to believe the licensing rules applied 
to people who offered commercial testing services to members of the public in 
their homes or office buildings and not to monitoring occupationally exposed 
workers or to situations such as universities where a competent staff member is 
available to respond to radon issues related to the university.

You can e-mail me with response to pcollopy@mjwcorp.com. After about a week 
I'll summarize the replies back to the radsafe group.

Thanks in advance for any info.

Peter Collopy, CIH, CHP
MJW Corporation

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