ML20122A232
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| Issue date: | 10/08/2020 |
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Enclosure 1 ORGANIZATION OF AGREEMENT STATES AND CONFERENCE OF RADIATION CONTROL PROGRAM DIRECTORS PRESENTERS PRESENTERS FOR THE ORGANIZATION OF AGREEMENT STATES (OAS)
David Crowley, Manager, Radioactive Materials Branch, North Carolina Radiation Protection Section (OAS Chair)
Augustinus Ong, Administrator, Radiological Health Section, Division of Public Health Services, New Hampshire Department of Public Health Service (OAS Chair-Elect)
Terry Derstine, Radiation Protection Program Manager, Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection Radiation Protection Program, Southeast Regional Office (OAS Past Chair)
PRESENTERS FOR THE CONFERENCE OF RADIATION CONTROL PROGRAM DIRECTORS (CRCPD)
Kim Steves, Director, Radiation Control Program, Kansas Department of Health and Environment, Bureau of Community Health Systems (CRCPD Chair)
Angela Leek, Chief, Bureau of Radiological Health, Iowa Department of Public Health (CRCPD Chair-Elect)
Jeffrey Semancik, Director, Radiation Division, Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection, (CRCPD Past Chair)
2 David Crowley (North Carolina), OAS Chair Mr. Crowley is currently the Manager of the North Carolina Radioactive Materials Branch. A role he has served in since 2014. In this position, he is responsible for regulatory oversight of all radioactive material and high energy radiation devices in North Carolina. From 2012-14, Mr. Crowley managed Georgias Radioactive Materials Program. From 2008-2010, Mr. Crowley served as a Naval Nuclear Officer, where he supported the Navy Nuclear Training Commands.
Mr. Crowley has a Bachelor of Science Degree in Physics from Case Western Reserve University and a Master of Science Degree in Medical Physics from Georgia Institute of Technology.
David is a member of both the OAS and the CRCPD. He currently serves as the OASs Chair-Elect. Additionally, he served from August 2015 through August 2018 as the OASs Director of Emerging Issues.
3 Augustinus Ong (New Hampshire), OAS Chair-Elect Mr. Ong is currently the Administrator of the New Hampshire DPHS/
Radiological Health Section. A position he has served in since 2012. In this position, he is responsible for regulatory oversight, working with his Radiological Health managers (David Scalise, Asish Banerjee, and Brennen Brunner), of all x-ray equipment, radioactive materials and radiological emergency response programs in New Hampshire. He is also an MQSA inspector. From 1997-12, Mr. Ong served as the Radiation Safety Officer overseeing the radioactive materials program at Dartmouth College. During this period, he was also an adjunct professor at NH Lebanon College teaching radiography and other health science related courses.
Mr. Ong has a Bachelor of Arts Degree from Columbia University and a Master of Public Health Degree in Medical Physics from the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. He coauthored several papers with his senior professors while working as a researcher at Columbia Center for Radiological Research and at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.
Auggie is a member of both the OAS and the CRCPD. He is currently a member of the NRC IMC 2800 working group and is a participant of other CRCPD working committees.
4 Terry Derstine (Pennsylvania), OAS Past Chair Mr. Derstine has worked for the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection Radiation Protection Program for 30 years. He has spent the past 13 years serving as Radiation Protection Program Manager for the Southeastern Regional Office. In this position, Mr. Derstine is responsible for a staff of 18 radiation protection professionals, whose duties include assessing the compliance of more than 300 radioactive material licensees as well as regional X-ray registrants, certified radon testers, mitigators, and labs. He also coordinates program responsibilities with representatives of management, lay and professional groups, and regulatory agencies.
Additionally, Mr. Derstine provides training, consultation, and assistance to radiation protection personnel, other departmental staff, as well as scientific, technical, and public organizations and individuals.
Mr. Derstine has a Bachelor of Science Degree in Microbiology from The Pennsylvania State University.
Mr. Derstine is a member of the local chapters of the Health Physics Society and the Delaware Valley Society for Radiation Safety (DVSRS) and is an Associate Member of the CRCPD. Mr.
Derstine has served as an Advisor to the CRCPD E-23 Committee on Resource Recovery and Radioactivity and is presently a member of the SR-T Suggested State Regulations - Part T:
Transportation of Radioactive Materials Committee.
5 Kimberly Steves (Kansas), CRCPD Chair Ms. Steves has worked for the State of Kansas for 32 years and currently serves as the Director of the Radiation Control Program at the Kansas Department of Health and Environment where she oversees a staff of 23. In this role, she oversees the Radioactive Materials, X-ray, Environmental Radiation, Emergency Preparedness, Radon, and Right-To-Know programs for Kansas. Kansas has been an Agreement State since 1965 and currently has 274 radioactive materials licensees. Ms. Steves also serves as the Governor appointed State Liaison Officer to the NRC for Kansas.
Ms. Steves previously served on the CRCPD Board of Directors as Member-At-Large from 2007-2010. She currently serves as an advisor to the E-25 Committee on Radon and the HS/ER5 Committee on Emergency Preparedness. She is currently the chairperson of the HS/ER-8 Task Force for Radiological Emergency Public Messaging. Ms. Steves is also currently serving her third term as the CRCPD Tri-Chair on the executive committee for the National Alliance for Radiation Readiness (NARR).
In addition to the CRCPD, Kim has served on the National Radiological Emergency Preparedness (NREP) Conference Steering Committee including as Chair of that organization.
She has also participated with the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) as a radiological emergency preparedness evaluator in numerous nuclear power plant exercises in other states. Ms. Steves has a Bachelor of Science Degree in Engineering from Kansas State University. She is also a Kansas Certified Public Manager.
6 Angela Leek, CHP (Iowa), CRCPD Chair-Elect Ms. Leek is the radiation control program director for the Iowa Department of Public Health, where she is responsible for the licensing and inspection activities for all aspects of radiation producing machines and radioactive materials within Iowa.
Her responsibilities also include coordinating dose assessment and providing technical advice throughout radiation emergency response, including coordination of dose monitoring and radiation protection recommendations for the responders and the public.
Ms. Leek is the CRCPD Boards Chair-Elect. She currently serves as CRCPDs Suggested State Regulations (SSRs) Chair, coordinating revisions to the councils structure to promote more efficient prioritization of revisions and resource allocation across the 28 committees assigned to the various rulemaking topics. In chairing CRCPDs SSSRs, she supports the NRCs Standing Committee on Compatibility along with the OAS representative and other activities related to SSRs. Ms. Leek is also active in supporting the development and implementation of the Radiological Operations Support Specialist (ROSS) program in coordination with the FEMA-CBRN Office, and leads a CRCPD subcommittee working to develop continuing education content to support ROSS competency maintenance. She actively participates in national level exercises and develops training and presentations for various groups on both the ROSS and overall radiation emergency planning and response.
Angela also maintains active membership with the Health Physics Society and is Councilor for the North Central Chapter of the Health Physics Society. She is Iowas governor-appointed State Liaison Officer to the NRC and is the voting member for Iowa on the OAS. Through OAS, Angela co-chairs an NRC/OAS working group to review and recommend revisions to the generally licensed devices program.
Ms. Leek has been involved in the radiation field for 25 years; she started in the medical field as a radiological technologist and transitioned to a health physics focus in 2006. Angela earned her masters degree in Radiation Health Physics from Oregon State University in 2014 and was certified as a Certified Health Physicist (CHP) in November 2019.
7 Jeffrey Semancik, CRCPD Past Chair Mr. Semancik has served as the Director of the Radiation Division for the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection since joining the state in July 2014. The Radiation Division sets standards for the safe operation of equipment that produces radiation and for the possession, use, storage, transportation and disposal of radioactive material. The Division inspects facilities that use radioactive material, x-ray machines and other radiation producing devices and is responsible for responding to reports of accidents and incidents involving radioactive materials. He also serves as a member of the State of Connecticuts Nuclear Energy Advisory Committee, as the Compact Secretary for the New England Radiological Health Committee; and as a Nuclear Advisory Committee member for Three Rivers Community College (Norwich, CT). Mr.
Semancik is the Past Chair of the CRCPD, as well as a member on the HS/ER-7 Task Force on Inter-Organizational Activities; an advisor on the HS/ER-4 Committee for Evaluation of Guidelines, Resources, and Tools for Radiological and Nuclear Emergency Response and Recovery; and the Chairperson of the E-37 Committee on Naval Nuclear Propulsion. He has contributed to the development of the Radiological Operations Support Specialist (ROSS) position including participating as the ROSS for the federal improvised nuclear device exercise Vibrant Response 16 and in radiological dispersal device exercises Atomic Thunder (RI) and Scarlet Thunder (NJ).
Mr. Semancik brings his experience in private industry to his service with the state of Connecticut. He worked at Millstone Nuclear Power Station in Waterford, CT for 23 years in a variety of positions including licensed senior reactor operator, Operations Manager, Engineering Director, and Plant Manager. Mr. Semancik began his career as an officer in the United States Navy serving on board the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS ABRAHAM LINCOLN and the guided missile destroyer USS SCOTT during Operation Desert Shield.
Mr. Semancik holds a Bachelor of Science in Physics from the United States Naval Academy, a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and a Master of Business Administration from the University of Connecticut.