Oregon Administrative Code

333-120-0000 General Provisions: Purpose (1) This division establishes standards for protection against ionizing radiation resulting from activities conducted under licenses and registrations issued by the Authority. These rules are issued under ORS 453.605 to 453.807, and the St…

333-120-0010 General Provisions: Scope The rules in this division apply to persons licensed or registered by the Authority to receive, possess, use, transfer, or dispose of licensed radioactive material or registered devices. The limits in this division do not apply to doses due …

333-120-0015 General Provisions: Definitions (1) "Absorbed dose" means the energy imparted by ionizing radiation per unit mass of irradiated material. The units of absorbed dose are the gray (Gy) and the rad. (2) "Activity" is the rate of disintegration (transformation) or decay …

333-120-0017 General Provisions: Implementation (1) Any existing license or registration condition that is more restrictive than OAR 333-120 remains in force until there is an amendment or renewal of the license or registration. (2) If a license or registration condition exempts …

333-120-0020 General Provisions: Radiation Protection Programs (1) Each licensee or registrant must develop, document, and implement a radiation protection program commensurate with the scope and extent of licensed or registered activities and sufficient to ensure compliance with…

333-120-0100 Radiation Dose Limits: Occupational Dose Limits For Adults (1) Each licensee or registrant must control the occupational dose to individual adults, except for planned special exposures under OAR 333-120-0150, to the following dose limits: (a) An annual limit, which i…

333-120-0110 Radiation Dose Limits: Compliance with Requirements for Summation of External and Internal Doses (1) If the licensee is required to monitor under OAR 333-120-0210(1) and (2), the licensee must demonstrate compliance with the dose limits by summing external and intern…

333-120-0120 Radiation Dose Limits: Determination of External Dose from Airborne Radioactive Material Licensees must, when determining the dose from airborne radioactive material, include the contribution to the deep-dose equivalent, lens dose equivalent, and shallow-dose equival…

333-120-0130 Radiation Dose Limits: Determination of Internal Exposure (1) For purposes of assessing dose used to determine compliance with occupational dose equivalent limits, the licensee must, when required under OAR 333-120-0210, take suitable and timely measurements of: (a) …

333-120-0150 Radiation Dose Limits: Planned Special Exposures 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 OAR 333-120-0100 provided that each of the follo…

333-120-0160 Radiation Dose Limits: Occupational Dose Limits for Minors The annual occupational dose limits for minors are 10 percent of the annual dose limits specified for adult workers in OAR 333-120-0100. Statutory/Other Authority: ORS 453.635 Statutes/Other Implemented: ORS …

333-120-0170 Radiation Dose Limits: Dose to an Embryo/Fetus (1) The licensee or registrant must ensure that the dose equivalent to an embryo/fetus during the entire pregnancy, due to occupational exposure of a declared pregnant woman does not exceed five mSv (0.5 rem). Records mu…

333-120-0180 Radiation Dose Limits: Dose Limits for Individual Members of the Public (1) Each licensee or registrant must conduct operations so that: (a) The total effective dose equivalent to individual members of the public from the licensed or registered operation does not exc…

333-120-0190 Radiation Dose Limits: Compliance with Dose Limits for Individual Members of the Public (1) The licensee or registrant must make or cause to be made, as appropriate, surveys of radiation levels in unrestricted and controlled areas and radioactive materials in effluen…

333-120-0200 Surveys and Monitoring: General (1) Each licensee or registrant must make or cause to be made, surveys that: (a) Are necessary for the licensee or registrant to comply with the rules in this division; and (b) Are reasonable under the circumstances to evaluate: (A) Th…

333-120-0210 Surveys and Monitoring: Conditions Requiring Individual Monitoring of External and Internal Occupational Dose Each licensee or registrant must monitor exposures to radiation and radioactive material at levels sufficient to demonstrate compliance with the occupational…

333-120-0215 Surveys and Monitoring: Location of Individual Monitoring Devices Each licensee or registrant must ensure that individuals who are required to monitor occupational doses in accordance with OAR 333-120-0210(1) wear individual monitoring devices as follows: (1) An indi…

333-120-0220 Control of Exposure from External Sources in Restricted Areas: Control of Access to High Radiation Areas (1) The licensee or registrant must ensure that each entrance or access point to a high radiation area has one or more of the following features: (a) A control de…

333-120-0230 Control of Exposure from External Sources in Restricted Areas: Control of Access to Very High Radiation Areas (1) In addition to the requirements in OAR 333-120-0220, the licensee or registrant must institute additional measures to ensure that an individual is not ab…

333-120-0240 Control of Exposure from External Sources in Restricted Areas: Control of Access to Very High Radiation Areas — Irradiators This rule applies to licensees or registrants with sources of radiation in non-self-shielded irradiators. It does not apply to sources of radia…

333-120-0250 Storage and Control of Licensed Material: Security of Stored Material (1) The licensee must secure from unauthorized removal or access licensed materials that are stored in controlled or unrestricted areas. (2) The registrant must secure registered radiation machines…

333-120-0260 Storage and Control of Licensed Material: Control of Material Not in Storage The licensee must control and maintain constant surveillance of licensed material that is in a controlled or unrestricted area and that is not in storage. Statutory/Other Authority: ORS 453.…

333-120-0300 Respiratory Protection and Controls to Restrict Internal Exposure in Restricted Areas: Use of Process or Other Engineering Controls The licensee must use, to the extent practicable, process or other engineering controls (e.g., containment or ventilation) to control t…

333-120-0310 Respiratory Protection and Controls to Restrict Internal Exposure in Restricted Areas: Use of Other Controls (1) When it is not practicable to apply process or other engineering controls to control the concentrations of radioactive material in air to values below tho…

333-120-0320 Respiratory Protection and Controls to Restrict Internal Exposure in Restricted Areas: Use of Individual Respiratory Protection Equipment (1) If the licensee uses respiratory protection equipment to limit intakes pursuant to OAR 333-120-0310: (a) The licensee must us…

333-120-0330 Respiratory Protection and Controls to Restrict Internal Exposure in Restricted Areas: Further Restrictions on the Use of Respiratory Protection Equipment The Authority may impose restrictions in addition to those in OAR 333-120-0310 and 333-120-0320, and 10 CFR, Par…

333-120-0340 Respiratory Protection and Controls to Restrict Internal Exposure in Restricted Areas: Application for Use of Higher Assigned Protection Factors The licensee shall obtain authorization from the Authority before using assigned protection factors in excess of those spe…

333-120-0400 Precautionary Procedures: Caution Signs (1) Standard radiation symbol: Unless otherwise authorized by the Authority, the symbol prescribed by this division must use the colors magenta, purple, or black on yellow background. The symbol prescribed by this division is t…

333-120-0410 Precautionary Procedures: Posting Requirements (1) Posting of radiation areas: The licensee or registrant must post each radiation area with a conspicuous sign or signs bearing the radiation symbol and the words "Caution, Radiation Area." (2) Posting of high radiatio…

333-120-0420 Precautionary Procedures: Exceptions to Posting Requirements (1) A licensee is not required to post caution signs in areas or rooms containing radioactive materials for periods of less than eight hours, if all of the following conditions are met: (a) The materials ar…

333-120-0430 Precautionary Procedures: Labeling Containers (1) The licensee must ensure that each container of licensed material bears a durable, clearly visible label bearing the radiation symbol and the words "CAUTION, RADIOACTIVE MATERIAL" or "DANGER, RADIOACTIVE MATERIAL." Th…

333-120-0440 Precautionary Procedures: Exemptions to Labeling Requirements A licensee is not required to label: (1) Containers holding licensed material in quantities less than the quantities listed in 10 CFR, Part 20, Appendix C to 20.1001 to 20.2401; or (2) Containers holding l…

333-120-0450 Precautionary Procedures: Procedures for Receiving and Opening Packages (1) Each licensee who expects to receive a package containing quantities of radioactive material in excess of a Type A quantity, as defined in 49 CFR 173.435 Table of A1 and A2 Values for Radionu…

333-120-0460 Precautionary Procedures: Testing for Leakage or Contamination of Sealed Sources (1) The licensee in possession of any sealed source must assure that: (a) Each sealed source, except as specified in section (2) of this rule is tested for leakage or contamination and t…

333-120-0500 Waste Disposal: General Requirements (1) A licensee must dispose of licensed radioactive material only: (a) By transfer to an authorized recipient as provided in OAR 333-102-0330; or (b) By decay in storage; or (c) By release in effluents within the limits in OAR 333…

333-120-0510 Waste Disposal: Method for Obtaining Approval of Proposed Disposal Procedures A licensee or applicant for a license may apply to the Authority for approval of proposed procedures, not otherwise authorized in the rules of this division, to dispose of licensed material…

333-120-0520 Waste Disposal: Disposal by Release into Sanitary Sewerage (1) A licensee may discharge licensed material into sanitary sewerage if each of the following conditions is satisfied: (a) The material is readily soluble (or is readily dispersible biological material) in w…

333-120-0530 Waste Disposal: Treatment of Disposal by Incineration A licensee may treat or dispose of licensed material by incineration only in the amounts and forms specified in OAR 333-120-0540 or as specifically approved by the Authority pursuant to OAR 333-120-0510. Statutory…

333-120-0540 Waste Disposal: Disposal of Specific Wastes (1) A licensee may dispose of the following licensed material as if it were not radioactive: (a) 1.85 kBq (0.05 uCi), or less, of hydrogen-3 or carbon-14 per gram of medium used for liquid scintillation counting; and (b) 1.…

333-120-0545 Disposal of Certain Byproduct Material (1) Licensed material as defined in subsections (c) and (d) of the definition of byproduct material outlined in OAR 333-120-0015(14) may be disposed of in accordance with 10 CFR Part 61 even though it is not defined as low-level…

333-120-0550 Waste Disposal: Transfer for Disposal and Manifests (1) The requirements of this rule and 10 CFR Part 20 Appendix G to 20.1001 to 20.2401 are designed to control transfers of low-level radioactive waste intended for disposal at a land disposal facility (as defined in…

333-120-0560 Waste Disposal: Compliance with Environmental and Health Protection Regulations Nothing in chapter 333 divisions 100 through 123 relieves the licensee or registrant from complying with other applicable Federal, State, and local regulations or rules governing any othe…

333-120-0600 Records: General Provisions (1) Each licensee must use the SI units becquerel, gray, sievert and coulomb per kilogram, or the special units curie, rad, rem, including multiples and subdivisions, and must clearly indicate the units of all quantities on records require…

333-120-0610 Records of Radiation Protection Programs (1) Each licensee must maintain records of the radiation protection program, including: (a) The provisions of the program; and (b) Audits and other reviews of program content and implementation. (2) The licensee must retain th…

333-120-0620 Records of Surveys and Leak Tests (1) Each licensee or registrant must maintain records showing the results of surveys, sealed source leak tests, and calibrations required by OAR 333-120-0200, 333-120-0450(2) and 333-120-0460. The licensee or registrant must retain t…

333-120-0630 Records: Determination of Prior Occupational Dose (1) For each individual likely to receive, in a year, an occupational dose requiring monitoring pursuant to OAR 333-120-0210, the licensee or registrant must: (a) Determine the occupational radiation dose received dur…

333-120-0640 Records of Planned Special Exposures (1) For each use of the provisions of OAR 333-120-0150 for planned special exposures, the licensee must maintain records that describe: (a) The exceptional circumstances requiring the use of a planned special exposure; and (b) The…

333-120-0650 Records of Individual Monitoring Results (1) Recordkeeping Requirement. Each licensee must maintain records of doses received by all individuals for whom monitoring was required pursuant to OAR 333-120-0210 and records of doses received during planned special exposur…

333-120-0660 Records of Dose to Individual Members of the Public (1) Each licensee must maintain records sufficient to demonstrate compliance with the dose limit for individual members of the public (OAR 333-120-0180). (2) The licensee must retain the records required by section …

333-120-0670 Records of Waste Disposal (1) Each licensee shall maintain records of the disposal of licensed materials made under OAR 333-120-0510, 333-120-0520, 333-120-0530, 333-120-0540, 10 CFR Part 61, and disposal by burial in soil, including burials authorized before January…