Conference of Radiation Control Program Directors, Inc' CRCPD

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Conference of Radiation Control Program
Directors, Inc. (CRCPD)

• The structure, working groups, activities and
  products of the Conference of Radiation Control
  Program Directors, Inc.

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Type of Organization

• Established in 1968, the CRCPD is a 501(c)(3)
  nonprofit organization, incorporated in the State
  of Kentucky, with its office located in
  Frankfort, Kentucky.

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Why Was CRCPD Formed?

• What is the purpose of the CRCPD?
• What is CRCPDs mission?
• What is the basic goal of CRCPD?
• Who are CRCPDs members?
• How does CRCPD function?

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Purpose

• To provide a common forum for the exchange of
  information among state and local radiation
  control programs.
• To provide a mechanism for states to communicate
  with the federal government on radiation
  protection issues.

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Mission

• To promote consistency in addressing and
  resolving radiation protection issues.
• To encourage high standards of quality in
  radiation protection programs.
• To provide leadership in radiation safety and
  education.

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Goal

• To keep radiation exposure of the patient,
  worker, and general public to the lowest
  practical level, while not restricting the
  beneficial use of this valuable energy source.

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Types of Membership

• Director Members
• State local radiation control program
  directors
• Associate Members
• Staff of radiation control programs in the U.S.
• Affiliate Members
• Anyone having an interest in CRCPD and radiation
  protection

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Types of Membership (Cont)

• International Members
• Staff of radiation programs outside U. S.
• Emeritus Members
• Former members as approved by Board of Directors
• Honorary Members
• Special contribution in radiation protection

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• Radiation and health physicists, radiologists,
  radiologic technologists, radiation safety
  officers, radiation control managers, radiation
  industry professionals, others interested in
  radiation protection, safety specialists and
  other public health managers.

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CRCPD Organizational Chart
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Responsibilities

• Membership
• constitution, bylaws, positions, voting
• Board
• policy, budget, committee structure, and
  direction to Executive Director
• Advisory Committee
• advice to Board of Directors

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Responsibilities (Cont.)

• Office of Executive Director
• Day-to-day operations, assistance to board
• Healing Arts Council
• Technical radiation protection issues in the
  healing arts
• Environmental Nuclear Council
• Technical issues relating to the protection of
  the environment

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Responsibilities (Cont.)

• SSRCR Council
• Develop and publish Suggested State Regulations
  for Control of Radiation
• General Council
• General issues in radiation protection
• Homeland Security/Emergency Response Council
• WMD issues and emergency response planning

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Revenue Sources

• Federal Grants/Cooperative Agreements/Contracts
• 82 of total CRCPD budget
• Other Sources
• 18 of total CRCPD budget

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Other Sources

• Membership dues
• Registration fees
• Sale of publications
• Annual meeting exhibits
• Professional Societies
• Brokerage of Texas IR examination

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Federal Agency Relationships

• CRCPD, through cooperative agreements, purchase
  orders and various partnership programs, works
  very closely with the following federal agencies

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Food Drug AdministrationCenter for Devices
Radiological Health

• Nationwide Evaluation of X-ray Trends (NEXT)
• Diagnostic x-ray, with a special program for
  protection of the patient from fluoroscopes
• Special activity in mammography
• Non-ionizing sources (laser systems, microwave
  systems, sun tanning booths)

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Environmental Protection AgencyOffice of
Radiation Indoor Air

• Decontamination Decommissioning
• MARSSIM
• Orphan sources
• Low-level radioactive waste

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Environmental Protection AgencyOffice of
Radiation Indoor Air (Cont.)

• Radiation standards
• Radon
• National Environmental Laboratory Accreditation
  Conference (NELAC)
• Naturally Occurring Radioactive Material (NORM)

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Nuclear Regulatory CommissionOffice of State
Programs

• Low-level radioactive waste
• Code of Federal Regulations
• Nuclear medicine
• Transportation of radioactive material
• Decontamination decommissioning

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Nuclear Regulatory Commission Office of State
Programs (Cont.)

• Orphan radioactive sources
• Standards for radiation protection
• Radioactive material licensing and inspection
• Pre-decisional release of information

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Department of Energy

• Source Collection and Threat Reduction of
  Radioactive Materials
• Low-level radioactive waste sites
• Hazardous waste sites
• Orphan radioactive sources

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Department of Energy

• Committee on Naval Nuclear Propulsion
• NORM
• DOE facility regulation

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Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)

• Off site reactor emergency planning
• Off site reactor emergency response
• Thyroid protection using Potassium Iodide
• Emergency guides
• Pathway analysis and recommendations

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Other Federal Agencies Working with CRCPD

• Department of Transportation
• Centers for Disease Control Prevention
• Department of Homeland Security
• National Institute of Occupational Safety
  Health

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Other Federal Agencies Working with CRCPD (Cont.)

• National Institute of Standards and Technology
• Department of State
• National Academy of Sciences

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Related Organizations

• International Atomic Energy Agency
• Council of State Governments
• American Petroleum Institute
• American Nuclear Society
• American Society of Non-Destructive Testing

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Related Organizations (Cont.)

• Association of State Territorial Health
  Officers
• Interstate Oil Gas Compact Commission
• American Lung Association
• Steel Manufactures Association
• American College of Nuclear Physicians

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Examples of Working Groups

• Committee on Radioactive Waste
• Committee on Emergency Response Planning
• Committee on Resource Recovery Radioactivity
• Committee on Decontamination Decommissioning

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Examples of Working Groups (Cont.)

• Committee on Radon
• Coordinator for Radioactive Material
  Transportation
• Committee on Radioactive Waste Management
• Committee on Unwanted Radioactive Materials
• Committee on MARSSIM and MARSAME
• Committee on Ionizing Measurements

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Examples of Working Groups (Cont.)

• Committee on Industrial Radiography
• Committee on Nationwide Evaluation of X-ray
  Trends (NEXT)
• Committee on Quality Assurance in Diagnostic
  X-ray

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Examples of Working Groups (Cont.)

• Committee on Naval Nuclear Propulsion
• Committee on Mammography
• Task Force to Monitoring Patient Dose During
  Fluoroscopy
• Task Force for Computed Tomography (CT)/Positron
  Emission Tomography (PET)
• Task Force for Computed Tomography (CT)
• Training Committee

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Examples of Working Groups (Cont.)

• Twenty-five separate groups developing
• Suggested State Regulations for
• Control of Radiation

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Formalized Liaisons

• Association of State Drinking Water
  Administration and American Water Works
  Association
• Association of Radon Scientists Technologists
• Association of State Territorial Solid Waste
  Management Officials

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Formalized Liaisons (Cont.)

• Health Physics Society
• National Council on Radiation Protection
• American Academy of Health Physics
• American Association of Physicists in Medicine

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Formalized Liaisons (Cont.)

• American Society of Radiologic Technologists/Ameri
  can Registry of Radiologic Technologists
• Joint Commission
• American College of Radiology
• American College of Medical Physics
• Society of Nuclear Medicine

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Examples of Committee Activities
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Radioactive Waste Management(Environmental
Nuclear Council)

• Develops guidance and recommendations for states
  in regulating the management of low-level
  radioactive waste.
• This guidance includes both technical and
  administrative recommendations for waste
  generated under the Atomic Energy Act and NARM.

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Emergency Response Planning (Environmental
Nuclear Council)

• Develops guidance for states in planning and
  responding to off site radiological emergencies
  around nuclear power plants, and transportation
  accidents.
• This guidance includes "first responders,"
  protective drugs, decontamination, environmental
  and plume analysis.

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Resource Recovery Radioactivity (Environmental
Nuclear Council)

• Develops recommended response and event
  notification protocol when radioactivity is
  detected in metal and scrap, and recommends a
  system for reporting such incidents.
• Develops guidance for the disposition of
  contaminated scrap and guidance on the use of
  detectors at landfills.

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Decontamination Decommissioning (Environmental
Nuclear Council)

• Develops recommendations for residual radiation
  level and exposure standards for decommissioned
  facilities, including guidance for adequate
  disposal of the waste produced by decontamination
  activities.

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Radon (Environmental Nuclear Council)

• Provides recommendations on various public
  awareness activities relative to radon assists
  in the establishment of model national
  construction radon standards and recommends
  standards and policy on radon in water.

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Radon (Cont.) (Environmental Nuclear Council)

• Assists in implementation of the SDWAA standard,
  and in the development of guidance for states in
  the use of the standard.
• Plans and coordinates the National Radon
  Conference.

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Unwanted Radioactive Materials (Environmental
Nuclear Council)

• Develops a national system for the
  identification, characterization, packaging,
  management and disposition of unwanted or orphan
  radioactive sources.

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Medical Practice(Healing Arts Council)

• Recommends programs and activities for state
  implementation to reduce administratively applied
  X-rays and provides guidance for
  consumer/patient education in X-rays.

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Nationwide Evaluation of X-ray Trends (NEXT)
(Healing Arts Council)

• Develops guidance for states in the collection of
  data for evaluating the trends in X-ray exposure
  throughout the U.S. assist in the design and
  implementation of training courses for state NEXT
  inspectors.

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Quality Assurance in Diagnostic X-ray (Healing
Arts Council)

• Determine the elements of diagnostic X-ray
  technique that impact image quality and patient
  exposure to aid facilities in maintaining minimal
  patient exposure and consistent high quality
  diagnostic images.

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Mammography (Healing Arts Council)

• Provide a clearinghouse for issues relating to
  mammography provide comments on activities
  under MQSA solicit and synthesize states
  comments on the MQSA Inspection Program, and
  provide States recommendations in the
  development of a national inspection program.

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Suggested State RegulationsWorking
Groups(Suggested State Regulations for Control
of Radiation Council)

• Develop suggested state regulations for the
  control of radiation in the areas of radiation
  producing machines registration, use and
  inspection, and radioactive materials licensing,
  use and inspection.

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Ionizing Measurements(General Council)

• Develop and maintain the document, Ionizing
  Radiation Measurement Criteria for Regulatory
  Purposes, a document used for accurately
  measuring ionizing radiation.
• Also, reviews and certifies regional ionizing
  calibration laboratories.

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Industrial Radiography (General Council)

• Develops guidance for state certification of
  industrial radiographers, providing various
  options that can be used by the states in
  certifying industrial radiographers.

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Non-ionizing (General Council)

• Provides guidance to states in the registration,
  regulation and inspection of non-ionizing sources
  of radiation. Sources include lasers, microwave
  systems, high voltage transmission, cellular
  phones, sun tanning booths and other sources.

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Homeland Security Emerging Issues Committee
(Homeland Security/Emergency Response Council)

• Identifies new HS radiation issues.
• Recommends creation of working groups/task forces
  to address issues
• Current topics include
• National Monitoring System
• Review of federal guidance for recovery from an
  RDD/IND

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Special Services of CRCPD

• Accreditation of regional calibration
  laboratories
• Recognition of states that license NARM
• Administer a U.S. DOT Exemption for moving
  contaminated scrap and trash
• Comprehensive program review for state agencies.

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Special Services of CRCPD (Cont.)

• Coordinates and brokers the Texas Industrial
  Radiography Examination to states
• Coordinates and conducts an annual National
  Conference on Radiation Control
• Coordinates and conducts an annual National Radon
  Conference

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Special Services of CRCPD (Cont.)

• Assist states with orphan radioactive source
  disposition by direct broker funding for
  characterizing, packaging, and disposal or
  transfer to a licensed recipient
• Assist in disposition of unused/disused sealed
  sources that do not meet other disposal options

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Special Services of CRCPD (Cont.)

• Provide a website to keep interested parties
  informed on CRCPD activities, including two
  limited access sections, Regulatory Forum for
  Director Members and Associate Members to discuss
  regulatory matters, and Members Only for
  Members to have access to financial matters of
  the CRCPD.
• Many CRCPD documents are now on the website
  www.crcpd.org

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Major Publications

• Bimonthly Newsbrief
• Directory of Personnel Responsible for
  Radiological Health
• Proceedings of annual national conferences
• Radon Bulletin
• Directory of State and Federal Agencies Involved
  with Transportation of Radioactive Material

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Major Publications (Cont.)

• Profile of State Radiation Control Programs
• Various technical reports relating to radiation
  protection

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In-House Documents

• Glossary of terms used in SSRCRs
• Directories of commercial services, such as
• Brokers,
• Decontamination firms,
• Radioassay labs,
• Portal radiation monitors for vehicles

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• A Partnership

Dedicated to Radiation Protection