[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 10, Volume 1]
[Revised as of January 1, 2001]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 10CFR35.20]

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                            TITLE 10--ENERGY
 
                CHAPTER I--NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
 
PART 35--MEDICAL USE OF BYPRODUCT MATERIAL--Table of Contents
 
             Subpart B--General Administrative Requirements
 
Sec. 35.20  ALARA program.


    (a) Each licensee shall develop and implement a written radiation 
protection program that includes provisions for keeping doses ALARA.
    (b) To satisfy the requirement of paragraph (a) of this section:
    (1) At a medical institution, management, the Radiation Safety 
Officer, and all authorized users must participate in the program as 
requested by the Radiation Safety Committee.
    (2) For licensees that are not medical institutions, management and 
all authorized users must participate in the program as requested by the 
Radiation Safety Officer.
    (c) The program must include notice to workers of the program's 
existence and workers' responsibility to help keep dose equivalents 
ALARA, a review of summaries of the types and amounts of byproduct 
material used, occupational doses, changes in radiation safety 
procedures and safety measures, and continuing education

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and training for all personnel who work with or in the vicinity of 
byproduct material. The purpose of the review is to ensure that 
licensees make a reasonable effort to maintain individual and collective 
occupational doses ALARA.