ML20198H074
| ML20198H074 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Issue date: | 11/20/1998 |
| From: | Dicus G NRC COMMISSION (OCM) |
| To: | Hoyle J NRC OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY (SECY) |
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| ML20198H003 | List: |
| References | |
| SECY-98-245-C, NUDOCS 9812290232 | |
| Download: ML20198H074 (2) | |
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NOTATION VOTE RESPONSE SHEET TO:
John C. Hoyle, Secretary FROM:
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SECY-98-245 - RULEMAKING PLAN - PROTECTION AGAINST DISCRETE RADIOACTIVE PARTICLE (DRP)
EXPOSURES (10 CFR PART 20) in part in part f
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Please see attached comments.
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Commissioner Dieus' comments on SECi'-98-245 I approyu staff's request to develop rulemaking to amend Part 20 to address DRPs. I agree that the rulemaking should include a constraint value of 300 rads and I support the staff's rationale for doing this. It addresses industry's concerns over unnecessary radiation exposures and costs resulting from contamination surveys that are now being made to meet the objectives I
of the present enforcement discretion policy. I do not support the staff's recommendation to propose a limit of 1,000 rads for a DRP dose to tha skin. While there may be scientific support for proposing this value,it is twice that recommended in the draft NCRP report. The NRC has frequently and forcefully made the point that National radiation protection standards should be consistent with the recommendations of the ICRP and NCRP. We should not do anything that erodes that position. Incorporating the draft report's recommendation of 500 rads will maintain this position. It will be consistent with the proposed constraint value. Since the NCRP report is in draf t, staff should continue to monitor its development and, if the final recommendations depart significantly from the present draft, the staff should inform the Commission.
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