Louisiana Administrative Code

A. This Chapter establishes standards for protection against ionizing radiation resulting from activities conducted pursuant to licenses or registrations issued by the department. These regulations are issued in accordance with R.S. 30:2101 et seq. B. The requirements of this Cha…

A. Except as specifically provided in other chapters of these regulations, this Chapter applies to persons licensed or registered by the department to receive, possess, use, transfer, or dispose of sources of radiation or to operate a production or utilization facility under thes…

A. As used in this Chapter, the following definitions apply. Air-Purifying Respirator―a respirator with an air-purifying filter, cartridge, or canister that removes specific air contaminants by passing ambient air through the air-purifying element. Annual Limit on Intake (ALI)―th…

A. Any existing license or registration condition that is more restrictive than this Chapter remains in force until there is an amendment or renewal of the license or registration. B. If a license or registration condition exempts a licensee or registrant from a provision of this…

A. Each licensee or registrant shall develop, document, and implement a radiation protection program sufficient to ensure compliance with the provisions of this Chapter. See LAC 33:XV.471 for recordkeeping requirements relating to these programs. B. The licensee or registrant sha…

A. The licensee or registrant shall control the occupational dose to individual adults, except for planned special exposures pursuant to LAC 33:XV.415, to the following dose limits: 1. an annual limit, which is the more limiting of: a. the total effective dose equivalent being eq…

A. If the licensee or registrant is required to monitor pursuant to LAC 33:XV.431.A and B, the licensee or registrant shall demonstrate compliance with the dose limits by summing external and internal doses. If the licensee or registrant is required to monitor only pursuant to LA…

A. Licensees or registrants shall, when determining the dose from airborne radioactive material, include the contribution to the deep dose equivalent, lens dose equivalent, and shallow dose equivalent from external exposure to the radioactive cloud. See LAC 33:XV.499.Appendix B, …

A. For purposes of assessing dose used to determine compliance with occupational dose equivalent limits, the licensee or registrant shall, when required pursuant to LAC 33:XV.431, take suitable and timely measurements of: 1. concentrations of radioactive materials in air in work …

A. For each individual who is likely to receive, in a year, an occupational dose requiring monitoring in accordance with LAC 33:XV.431, the licensee or registrant shall: 1. determine the occupational radiation dose received during the current year; and 2. attempt to obtain the re…

A. A licensee or registrant may authorize an adult worker to receive doses in addition to and accounted for separately from the doses received under the limits specified in LAC 33:XV.410 provided that each of the following conditions is satisfied: 1. the licensee or registrant au…

A. The annual occupational dose limits for minors are 10 percent of the annual occupational dose limits specified for adult workers in LAC 33:XV.410.

A. The licensee or registrant shall ensure that the dose equivalent to the embryo/fetus during the entire pregnancy, due to occupational exposure of a declared pregnant woman, does not exceed 5 mSv (0.5 rem). See LAC 33:XV.476 for recordkeeping requirements. B. The licensee or re…

A. Each licensee or registrant shall conduct operations so that: 1. except as provided in Paragraph A.3 of this Section, the total effective dose equivalent (TEDE) to individual members of the public from the licensed or registered operation does not exceed 1 mSv (0.1 rem) in a y…

A. 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 LAC 33:XV.…

A. The licensee or registrant in possession of any sealed source shall assure that: 1. each sealed source, except as specified in LAC 33:XV.426.B, is tested for leakage or contamination and the test results are received before the sealed source is put into use, unless the license…

A. Each licensee or registrant shall make, or cause to be made, surveys of areas, including the subsurface, that: 1. may be necessary for the licensee or registrant to comply with this Chapter; and 2. are reasonable under the circumstances to evaluate: a. the magnitude and extent…

A. Each licensee or registrant shall monitor exposures from sources of radiation at levels sufficient to demonstrate compliance with the occupational dose limits of this Chapter. Each licensee or registrant shall monitor occupational exposure to radiation and shall supply and req…

A. Each licensee or registrant shall ensure that individuals who are required to monitor occupational doses in accordance with LAC 33:XV.431.A wear individual monitoring devices as follows: 1. an individual monitoring device used for monitoring the dose to the whole body shall be…

A. 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: 1. a control device that, upon entry into the area, causes the level of radiation to be reduced below that level at which an individua…

A. In addition to the requirements in LAC 33:XV.436, 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 5 Gy (500 rad) or more in one ho…

A. This Section applies to licensees or registrants with sources of radiation in non-self-shielded irradiators. This Section does not apply to sources of radiation that are used in teletherapy, in industrial radiography, or in completely self-shielded irradiators in which the sou…

A. The licensee or registrant shall use, to the extent practicable, process or other engineering controls, such as containment, decontamination, or ventilation, to control the concentrations of radioactive material in air.

A. When it is not practicable to apply process or other engineering controls to control the concentrations of radioactive material in air to values below those that define an airborne radioactivity area, the licensee or registrant shall, consistent with maintaining the total effe…

A. If the licensee or registrant assigns or permits the use of respiratory protection equipment to limit intakes in accordance with LAC 33:XV.441: 1. except as provided in Paragraph A.2 of this Section, the licensee or registrant shall use only respiratory protection equipment th…

A. The licensee shall obtain authorization from the department before using assigned protection factors in excess of those specified in LAC 33:XV.499.Appendix A. The department may authorize a licensee to use higher assigned protection factors upon receipt of an application that:…

A. The licensee or registrant shall secure licensed or registered radioactive material from unauthorized removal or access. B. The licensee or registrant shall maintain constant surveillance or use devices or administrative procedures to prevent unauthorized use of licensed or re…

A. Standard Radiation Symbol. Unless otherwise authorized by the department, the symbol prescribed by this Section shall use the colors magenta or purple or black on yellow background. The symbol prescribed is the three-bladed design as follows: 1. cross-hatched area is to be mag…

A. Posting of Radiation Areas. The licensee or registrant shall post each radiation area with a conspicuous sign or signs bearing the radiation symbol and the words "CAUTION, RADIATION AREA." B. Posting of High Radiation Areas. The licensee or registrant shall post each high radi…

A. A licensee or registrant is not required to post caution signs in areas or rooms containing sources of radiation for periods of less than eight hours, if each of the following conditions is met: 1. the sources of radiation are constantly attended during these periods by an ind…

A. The licensee or registrant shall ensure that each container of licensed or registered source of radiation bears a durable, clearly visible label bearing the radiation symbol and the words "CAUTION, RADIOACTIVE MATERIAL, NOTIFY CIVIL AUTHORITIES [or 'NAME OF COMPANY']" or "DANG…

A. A licensee or registrant is not required to label: 1. containers holding licensed or registered sources of radiation in quantities less than the quantities listed in LAC 33:XV.499.Appendix C; 2. containers holding licensed or registered sources of radiation in concentrations l…

A. Each licensee or registrant who expects to receive a package containing quantities of radioactive material in excess of a Type A quantity, as defined in LAC 33:XV.1503, shall make arrangements to receive: 1. the package when the carrier offers it for delivery; or 2. the notifi…

A. A licensee or registrant shall dispose of licensed or registered sources of radiation only: 1. by transfer to an authorized recipient as provided in LAC 33:XV.465 or in LAC 33:XV.Chapters 3, 13, or 14, or to the U.S. Department of Energy; 2. by decay in storage; 3. by release …

A. A licensee or registrant or applicant for a license or registration may apply to the Office of Environmental Compliance for approval of proposed procedures, not otherwise authorized in these regulations, to dispose of licensed or registered sources of radiation generated in th…

A. A licensee or registrant may discharge licensed or registered sources of radiation into sanitary sewerage if each of the following conditions is satisfied: 1. the material is readily water soluble, or is readily dispersible biological material in water; 2. the quantity of lice…

A. A licensee or registrant may treat or dispose of licensed or registered sources of radiation by incineration only in the form and concentration specified in LAC 33:XV.464 or as specifically approved by the department in accordance with LAC 33:XV.461.

A. A licensee or registrant may dispose of the following licensed or registered sources of radiation as if it were not radioactive: 1. 1.85 kBq (0.05 µCi), or less, of hydrogen-3 or carbon-14 per gram of medium used for liquid scintillation counting; and 2. 1.85 kBq (0.05 µCi), o…

A. The requirements of this Section and Appendices D and E of this Chapter are designed to: control transfers of low-level radioactive waste by any waste generator, waste collector, or waste processor licensee, as defined in LAC 33:XV.499.Appendix D, who ships low-level waste eit…

A. Nothing in LAC 33:XV.460-465 relieves the licensee or registrant from complying with other applicable federal, state and local regulations governing any other toxic or hazardous properties of materials that may be disposed of pursuant to LAC 33:XV.460-465.

A. Each licensee or registrant shall use the special units curie, rad, and rem, including multiples and subdivisions, and shall clearly indicate the units of all quantities on records required by this Chapter. In the records required by this Chapter, the licensee may record quant…

A. Each licensee or registrant shall maintain records of the radiation protection program, including: 1. the provisions of the program; and 2. audits and other reviews of program content and implementation. B. The licensee or registrant shall retain the records required by LAC 33…

A. Each licensee or registrant shall maintain records showing the results of surveys and calibrations required by LAC 33:XV.430 and 455.B. The licensee or registrant shall retain these records for three years after the record is made. B. The licensee or registrant shall retain ea…

A. Records of tests for leakage or contamination from sealed sources required by LAC 33:XV.426 shall be kept in units of becquerel or microcurie and maintained for inspection by the department for five years after the records are made.

A. The licensee or registrant shall retain the records of prior occupational dose and exposure history as specified in LAC 33:XV.414 on department Form DRC-4 or equivalent until the department terminates each pertinent license or registration requiring this record. The licensee o…

A. For each use of the provisions of LAC 33:XV.415 for planned special exposures, the licensee or registrant shall maintain records that describe: 1. the exceptional circumstances requiring the use of a planned special exposure; 2. the name of the management official who authoriz…

A. Recordkeeping Requirement. Each licensee or registrant shall maintain records of doses received by all individuals for whom monitoring was required pursuant to LAC 33:XV.431, and records of doses received during planned special exposures, accidents, and emergency conditions. A…