Washington Administrative Code

(1) Initial investigation. Before allowing an individual unescorted access to Category 1 or Category 2 quantities of radioactive material or to the devices that contain the material, licensees shall complete a background investigation of the individual seeking unescorted access a…

(1) General performance objective and requirements.(a) Except for those individuals listed in WAC 246-237-029 and those individuals grandfathered under WAC 246-237-025(2), each licensee subject to the provisions of this chapter shall fingerprint each individual who is to be permi…

(1) Fingerprinting, and the identification and criminal history records checks required by WAC 246-237-025, 246-237-027 and Section 149 of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended, and other elements of the background investigation are not required for the following individuals …

(1) Each licensee who obtains background information on an individual under this chapter shall establish and maintain a system of files and written procedures for protection of the record and the personal information from unauthorized disclosure.(2) The licensee may not disclose …

(1) Each licensee shall be responsible for the continuing effectiveness of the access authorization program. Each licensee shall ensure that access authorization programs are reviewed to confirm compliance with the requirements of this chapter and that comprehensive actions are t…

(1) Applicability.(a) Each licensee who possesses an aggregated Category 1 or Category 2 quantity of radioactive material shall establish, implement, and maintain a security program in accordance with the requirements of this chapter.(b) An applicant for a new license, and each l…

(1) Security plan.(a) Each licensee identified in WAC 246-237-041(1) shall develop a written security plan specific to its facilities and operations. The purpose of the security plan is to establish the licensee's overall security strategy to ensure the integrated and effective f…

(1) A licensee subject to this chapter shall coordinate, to the extent practicable, with a LLEA for responding to threats to the licensee's facility, including any necessary armed response. The information provided to the LLEA must include:(a) A description of the facilities and …

(1) Licensees shall ensure that all aggregated Category 1 and Category 2 quantities of radioactive material are used or stored within licensee-established security zones. Security zones may be permanent or temporary.(2) Temporary security zones must be established as necessary to…

(1) Monitoring and detection.(a) Licensees shall establish and maintain the capability to continuously monitor and detect without delay all unauthorized entries into its security zones. Licensees shall provide the means to maintain continuous monitoring and detection capability i…

(1) Each licensee subject to this chapter shall implement a maintenance and testing program to ensure that intrusion alarms, associated communication systems, and other physical components of the systems used to secure or detect unauthorized access to radioactive material are mai…

Each licensee who possesses mobile devices containing Category 1 or Category 2 quantities of radioactive material must:(1) Have two independent physical controls that form tangible barriers to secure the material from unauthorized removal when the device is not under direct contr…

(1) Each licensee shall be responsible for the continuing effectiveness of their security program. Each licensee shall ensure that the security program is reviewed to confirm compliance with the requirements of this chapter and that comprehensive actions are taken to correct any …

(1) The licensee shall immediately notify the LLEA after determining that an unauthorized entry resulted in an actual or attempted theft, sabotage, or diversion of a Category 1 or Category 2 quantity of radioactive material. As soon as possible after initiating a response, but no…

A licensee transferring a Category 1 or Category 2 quantity of radioactive material to a licensee of the department, the NRC, or an agreement state shall meet the license verification provisions listed in this section instead of those listed in WAC 246-232-080(4):(1) Any licensee…

(1) For shipments of Category 1 quantities of radioactive material, each shipping licensee shall comply with the requirements for physical protection contained in WAC 246-237-075 (1) and (5); 246-237-077; 246-237-079 (1)(a), (2)(a), and (3); and 246-237-081 (1), (3), (5), (7), an…

(1) Each licensee who plans to transport, or deliver to a carrier for transport, licensed material that is a Category 1 quantity of radioactive material outside the confines of the licensee's facility or other place of use or storage shall:(a) Preplan and coordinate shipment arri…

As specified in subsections (1) and (2) of this section, each licensee shall provide advance notification to the department and the governor of a state, or the governor's designee, of the shipment of licensed material in a Category 1 quantity, through or across the boundary of th…

(1) Shipments by road.(a) Each licensee who transports, or delivers to a carrier for transport, in a single shipment, a Category 1 quantity of radioactive material shall:(i) Ensure that movement control centers are established that maintain position information from a remote loca…

(1) The shipping licensee shall notify the appropriate LLEA and the department within one hour of its determination that a shipment of Category 1 quantities of radioactive material is lost or missing. The appropriate LLEA would be the law enforcement agency in the area of the shi…

Each record required by this chapter must be legible throughout the retention period specified by department rule. The record may be the original or a reproduced copy or a microform, provided the copy or microform is authenticated by authorized personnel and the microform is capa…

Licensees shall maintain records required by this chapter for the period specified by the appropriate rule. If a retention period is not otherwise specified, these records must be retained until the department terminates the facility's license. All records related to this chapter…

(1) Each licensee shall afford the department, at all reasonable times, opportunity to inspect Category 1 or Category 2 quantities of radioactive material and the premises and facilities wherein the nuclear material is used, produced, or stored.(2) Each licensee shall make availa…

Terabecquerel (TBq) values are the regulatory standard. The curie (Ci) values specified are obtained by converting from the TBq value. The curie values provided for practical usefulness only.Radioactive materialCategory 1(TBq)Category 1(Ci)Category 2(TBq)Category 2(Ci)Americium-2…

The licensee/reader, looking for nuclear medicine regulations formerly located in chapter 246-239 WAC, "Radiation protection—Nuclear medicine" is directed to the updated nuclear medicine regulations that are now contained entirely within chapter 246-240 WAC, "Radiation protection…

This chapter contains the requirements and provisions for the medical use of radioactive material and for issuance of specific licenses authorizing the medical use of this material. These requirements and provisions provide for the radiation safety of workers, the general public,…

Nothing in this chapter relieves the licensee from complying with applicable FDA, or other federal and state requirements governing radioactive drugs or devices.[Statutory Authority: RCW 70.98.050. WSR 06-05-019, § 246-240-004, filed 2/6/06, effective 3/9/06.]

(1) A licensee may conduct research involving human research subjects only if it uses the radioactive materials specified on its license for the uses authorized on its license.(2) If the research is conducted, funded, supported, or regulated by another federal agency that has imp…

The definitions, abbreviations, and acronyms in this section and in WAC 246-220-010 apply throughout this chapter unless the context clearly indicates otherwise.(1) "Address of use" means the building or buildings that are identified on the license and where radioactive material …

Each record required by this chapter must be legible throughout the retention period specified by each department regulation. The record may be the original or a reproduced copy or a microform provided that the copy or microform is authenticated by authorized personnel and that t…

(1) A person may manufacture, produce, acquire, receive, possess, prepare, use, or transfer radioactive material for medical use only in accordance with a specific license issued by the department, NRC, or an agreement state, or as allowed in subsection (2)(a) or (b) of this sect…

(1) An application must be signed by the applicant's or licensee's management.(2) An application for a license for medical use of radioactive material as described in WAC 246-240-151, 246-240-157, 246-240-201, 246-240-251, 246-240-301, 246-240-351, and 246-240-501 must be made by…

A licensee shall apply for and must receive a license amendment before the licensee:(1) Receives, prepares, or uses radioactive material for a type of use that is permitted under this chapter, but that is not authorized on the licensee's current license issued under this chapter;…

(1) A licensee shall notify the department no later than 30 days after:(a) An authorized user, an authorized nuclear pharmacist, a radiation safety officer, an associate radiation safety officer, ophthalmic physicist, or an authorized medical physicist permanently discontinues pe…

A licensee possessing a Type A specific license of broad scope for medical use, issued under WAC 246-235-090, is exempt from the provisions of:(1) WAC 246-240-019 regarding the need to file an amendment to the license for medical use of radioactive material, as described in WAC 2…

(1) The department shall issue a license for the medical use of radioactive material if:(a) The applicant has filed "Application for Radioactive Material License Medical" in accordance with the instructions in WAC 246-240-019;(b) The applicant has paid applicable fee under chapte…

(1) In addition to the radiation protection program requirements of WAC 246-221-005, a licensee's management shall approve in writing:(a) Requests for a license application, renewal, or amendment before submittal to the department;(b) Any individual before allowing that individua…

(1) A licensee may revise its radiation protection program without department approval if:(a) The revision does not require a license amendment under WAC 246-240-022;(b) The revision is in compliance with this chapter and the license;(c) The revision has been reviewed and approve…

(1) A licensee that permits the receipt, possession, use, or transfer of radioactive material by an individual under the supervision of an authorized user, as allowed by WAC 246-240-016, shall in addition to the requirements in WAC 246-222-030:(a) Instruct the supervised individu…

(1) A written directive must be dated and signed by an authorized user before the administration of I-131 sodium iodide greater than 1.11 megabecquerels (30 microcuries), any therapeutic dosage of unsealed radioactive material or any therapeutic dose of radiation from radioactive…

(1) For any administration requiring a written directive, the licensee shall develop, implement, and maintain written procedures to provide high confidence that:(a) The patient's or human research subject's identity is verified before each administration; and(b) Each administrati…

For medical use, a licensee may only use:(1) Sealed sources or devices manufactured, labeled, packaged, and distributed in accordance with a license issued under WAC 246-235-102. (2) Sealed sources or devices noncommercially transferred from NRC or an agreement state medical use …

Except as provided in WAC 246-240-078, the licensee shall require an individual fulfilling the responsibilities of the radiation safety officer or an individual assigned duties and tasks as an associate radiation safety officer under WAC 246-240-051 to be an individual who:(1) Is…

Except as provided in WAC 246-240-078, the licensee shall require the authorized medical physicist to be an individual who:(1) Is certified by a specialty board whose certification process has been recognized by the department, NRC, or an agreement state and who meets the require…

Except as provided in WAC 246-240-078, the licensee shall require the authorized nuclear pharmacist to be a pharmacist who:(1) Is certified by a specialty board whose certification process has been recognized by the department, NRC, or an agreement state. The names of board certi…

(1)(a) An individual identified on a department, NRC, or an agreement state license; or a permit issued by a department, NRC, or an agreement state broad scope licensee or master material license permit; or by a master material license permittee of broad scope as a radiation safe…

Training and experience specified in WAC 246-240-069, 246-240-072, 246-240-075, 246-240-078, 246-240-154, 246-240-163, 246-240-210, 246-240-213, 246-240-216, 246-240-278, 246-240-281, and 246-240-399, must have been obtained within the seven years preceding the date of applicatio…

(1) For direct measurements performed in accordance with WAC 246-240-107, a licensee shall possess and use instrumentation to measure the activity of unsealed radioactive material before it is administered to each patient or human research subject. (2) A licensee shall calibrate …

(1) A licensee shall calibrate the survey instruments used to show compliance with this section and WAC 246-240-587 before first use, annually, and following a repair that affects the calibration. A licensee shall:(a) Calibrate all scales with readings up to 10 mSv (1000 mrem) pe…

(1) A licensee shall determine and record the activity of each dosage before medical use. (2) For a unit dosage, this determination must be made by:(a) Direct measurement of radioactivity; or(b) A decay correction, based on the activity or activity concentration determined by:(i)…