CONTROL OF RADIATION HAZARDS

The following definitions apply only in this part. (1) "AAPM" means the American Association of Physicists in Medicine: www.aapm.org. (2) "Authorized user" means a person who has met the requirements of subsection 64E-5.1603(1), F.A.C. (3) "Authorized medical physicist" means a p…

(1) Registration and Notification. (a) No electronic brachytherapy device may be used on a human without a current certificate of registration from the department. (b) An electronic brachytherapy device that is not operational and that is under the control of a registered vendor …

(1) Qualification of Authorized User. (a) The registrant shall require the authorized user to be a physician who: 1. Is licensed by the department as a medical doctor or doctor of osteopathy, 2. Has completed a manufacturer's device-specific training as specified in subsection 64…

(1) Radiation Surveys. (a) The registrant shall ensure that a survey, as defined in subsection 64E-5.101(151), F.A.C., of all new facilities and existing facilities not previously surveyed, is performed with an operable radiation measurement survey instrument according to the req…

(1) This part provides for the licensing of radioactive material. No person shall receive, possess, use, transfer, own or acquire radioactive material except as authorized in a specific or general license issued pursuant to this part or as otherwise provided in this part. Unless …

(1) Any person is exempt from this part to the extent that such person receives, possesses, uses, owns or transfers source material in any chemical mixture, compound, solution or alloy in which the source material is by weight less than 1/20 of 1 percent of the mixture, compound,…

(1) Exempt Concentrations. (a)1. Except as provided in this section, any person is exempt from this part to the extent that such person receives, possesses, uses, transfers, owns or acquires products containing radioactive material introduced in concentrations not in excess of th…

Licenses for radioactive materials are of two types: general and specific. (1) Some general licenses provided in this part may be effective without the filing of applications with the department or the issuance of licensing documents to the particular persons, although the filing…

(1) A general license is hereby issued authorizing commercial and industrial firms, research, educational and medical institutions, and State and local governmental agencies to use and transfer not more than 15 pounds (6.82 kg) of source material at any given time for research, d…

(1) Certain Devices and Equipment. A general license is hereby issued to transfer, receive, acquire, own, possess and use radioactive material incorporated in the following devices or equipment which have been manufactured, tested and labeled by the manufacturer in accordance wit…

(1) An original and one copy of an application for specific licenses, license renewals, and license amendments shall be filed with the department on Application for Radioactive Materials License Non-Human Use, DH Form 1054 12/09 or Application for Radioactive Materials Human Use,…

A license application for a new, amended, or renewed license will be approved if the department determines that: (1) The applicant is qualified by reason of training and experience to use the material in question for the purpose requested in accordance with these rules in such a …

This section prescribes requirements for the issuance of specific licenses of broad scope for radioactive material and certain regulations governing holders of such licenses. Authority to transfer possession or control by the manufacturer, processor or producer of any equipment, …

(1) Licensing the Distribution of Radioactive Material in Exempt Concentrations. Authority to transfer possession or control by the manufacturer, processor, or producer of any equipment, device, commodity or other product containing by-product material whose subsequent possession…

In addition to the requirements set forth in Rule 64E-5.208, F.A.C., a specific license for source material milling will be issued if the applicant submits to the Department an application as described herein and meets the other conditions specified below: (1) An application for …

(1) Upon a determination that an application meets the requirements of Chapter 404, F.S., and these regulations, the Department will issue a specific license authorizing the proposed activity in such form and containing such conditions and limitations as it deems appropriate or n…

(1) Each license issued pursuant to this part shall be subject to all the provisions of the applicable laws, now or hereafter in effect, and to all rules of the Department. (2) No license issued or granted under this part and no right to possess or utilize radioactive material gr…

(1) Except as provided in Part II, each specific license shall expire at the end of the specified day in the month and year stated therein. Each specific license revoked by the department expires at the end of the day on the date of the department's final order revoking the licen…

(1) No licensee shall transfer radioactive material except as authorized pursuant to this section. (2) Except as otherwise provided in his license and subject to the provisions of subsections (3) and (4), below, a licensee may transfer radioactive material: (a) To the Department …

(1) Subject to these regulations, any person who holds a specific license from the NRC, or an Agreement State and issued by the agency having jurisdiction where the licensee maintains an office for directing the licensed activity and at which radiation safety records are normally…

(1) Any applicant or licensee who is not exempt by the provisions of this subpart shall provide a performance bond. (a) The bond shall be payable to the State of Florida and shall be in an amount determined by the Department as sufficient to provide for the protection of the envi…

(1) Radioactive material inspections may be announced or unannounced. (2) Inspection procedures for all license categories will include the following: (a) At the time of entrance to a facility, the department will inform the licensee management if available the purpose, extent, a…

(1) Each application to possess radioactive materials in unsealed form, on foils or plated sources, or sealed in glass in excess of the quantities in Rule 64E-5.220, F.A.C., must contain either: (a) An evaluation showing that the maximum dose to a person off-site due to a release…

(1) The list of quantities of radioactive materials requiring consideration of the need for an emergency plan for responding to a release as required in Rule 64E-5.219, F.A.C., is provided in the Department publication "Emergency Plan Isotopes and Quantities," July 2014 edition, …

The criteria in this subpart apply to the decommissioning of facilities licensed under this chapter but do not apply to uranium and thorium recovery facilities as specified in Rule 64E-5.211, F.A.C., or to sites which previously have submitted and received department approval of …

A site is acceptable for unrestricted use if the total effective dose equivalent to an average member of the critical group from the residual radioactivity that is distinguishable from background radiation does not exceed 25 millirem (0.25 mSv) per year including radioactivity fr…

A site is acceptable for license termination under restricted conditions if it meets the criteria below. (1) The residual levels associated with restricted conditions are ALARA or the licensee can demonstrate that further reductions in residual radioactivity to comply with the pr…

The department will terminate a license using alternate criteria greater than the dose criterion of Rule 64E-5.222, subsection 64E-5.223(2), and sub-subparagraph 64E-5.223(4)(a)1.a., F.A.C., if the licensee: (1) Provides assurance that public health and safety would continue to b…

Upon the receipt of a license termination or decommissioning plan or a proposal for release of a site as specified in Rule 64E-5.223 or 64E-5.224, F.A.C., and the total effective dose equivalent will exceed 50 millirem (0.5 mSv), the department shall: (1) Notify and solicit comme…

After the effective date of this rule, applicants for licenses other than renewals shall describe in the application how facility design and procedures for operation will minimize contamination of the facility and the environment to the extent practical, facilitate eventual decom…

(1) The rules in this part control the receipt, possession, use, disposal, and transfer of sources of radiation by any licensee or registrant so the total dose to an individual, including doses resulting from all sources of radiation other than background radiation, does not exce…

(1) Any existing license or registration condition that is more restrictive than Part III remains in force until there is an amendment or renewal of the license or registration. (2) If a license or registration condition exempts a licensee or registrant from a provision of the pa…

(1) Each licensee or registrant shall develop, document, and implement a radiation protection program sufficient to ensure compliance with the provisions of this part. See Rule 64E-5.335, F.A.C., for recordkeeping requirements relating to these programs. (2) The licensee or regis…

(1) The licensee or registrant shall control the occupational dose to individual adults, except for planned special exposures as specified in Rule 64E-5.309, F.A.C., to the following dose limits: (a) An annual limit, which is the more limiting of: 1. The total effective dose equi…

(1) If the licensee is required to monitor as specified in both subsections 64E-5.315(1) and (2), F.A.C., the licensee shall demonstrate compliance with the dose limits by summing external and internal doses. If the licensee or registrant is required to monitor only as specified …

(1) Licensees shall include the contribution to the deep dose equivalent, eye dose equivalent, and shallow dose equivalent from external exposure to the radioactive cloud when determining the dose from airborne radioactive material. See State of Florida Bureau of Radiation Contro…

(1) To assess dose used to determine compliance with occupational dose equivalent limits when required as specified in Rule 64E-5.315, F.A.C., the licensee shall take suitable and timely measurements of: (a) Concentrations of radioactive materials in air in work areas; (b) Quanti…

(1) For each individual who is likely to receive in a year an occupational dose requiring monitoring as specified in Rule 64E-5.315, F.A.C., the licensee or registrant shall: (a) Determine the occupational radiation dose received during the current year; and, (b) Attempt to obtai…

A licensee or registrant can authorize an adult worker to receive doses in addition to and accounted for separately from the doses received under the limits specified in Rule 64E-5.304, F.A.C., if each of the following conditions is satisfied: (1) The licensee or registrant autho…

The annual occupational dose limits for minors are 10 percent of the annual occupational dose limits specified for adult workers in Rule 64E-5.304, F.A.C. Rulemaking Authority 404.051, 404.081 FS. Law Implemented 404.022, 404.051(1), (4), 404.081 FS. History-New 1-1-94, Formerly …

(1) The licensee or registrant shall ensure that the dose to an embryo or fetus during the entire pregnancy from occupational exposure of a declared pregnant woman does not exceed 0.5 rem (5 mSv). See Rule 64E-5.339, F.A.C., for recordkeeping requirements. (2) The licensee or reg…

(1) Each licensee or registrant shall conduct operations so that: (a) Except as specified in paragraph 64E-5.312(1)(b), F.A.C., the total effective dose equivalent to individual members of the public from the licensed or registered operation does not exceed 0.1 rem (1 millisiever…

(1) The licensee or registrant shall make or cause to be made surveys of radiation levels in unrestricted areas and radioactive materials in effluents released to unrestricted areas to demonstrate compliance with the dose limits for individual members of the public in Rule 64E-5.…

(1) Each licensee or registrant shall make or cause to be made surveys that: (a) Are necessary for the licensee or registrant to comply with this part; and, (b) Are necessary under the circumstances to evaluate: 1. The magnitude and extent of radiation levels; 2. Concentrations o…

Each licensee or registrant shall monitor exposures from sources of radiation at levels sufficient to demonstrate compliance with the occupational dose limits of this part. As a minimum: (1) Each licensee or registrant shall monitor occupational exposure to radiation and shall su…

(1) The licensee or registrant shall ensure that each entrance or access point to a high radiation area has one or more of the following features: (a) A control device that upon entry into the area causes the level of radiation to be reduced below that level at which an individua…

(1) In addition to the requirements in Rule 64E-5.316, F.A.C., the licensee or registrant shall institute measures to ensure that an individual is not able to gain unauthorized or inadvertent access to areas in which radiation levels could be encountered at 500 rad (5 gray) or mo…

The licensee shall use to the extent practical process or other engineering controls such as containment, decontamination, or ventilation to control the concentrations of radioactive material in air. (1) When it is not practical to apply process or other engineering controls to c…

(1) If the licensee uses respiratory protection equipment to limit intakes as specified in Rule 64E-5.318, F.A.C.: (a) The licensee shall use only respiratory protection equipment that is tested and certified by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health except as …

The licensee shall secure from unauthorized removal or access licensed sources of radiation that are stored in restricted or unrestricted areas. Rulemaking Authority 404.051, 404.081 FS. Law Implemented 404.022, 404.051(1), (4), 404.081 FS. History-New 1-1-94, Formerly 10D-91.453…