[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 10, Volume 4]
[Revised as of January 1, 2002]
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[CITE: 10CFR835.1301]

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                            TITLE 10--ENERGY
 
                    CHAPTER III--DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
 
PART 835--OCCUPATIONAL RADIATION PROTECTION--Table of Contents
 
                Subpart N--Emergency Exposure Situations
 
Sec. 835.1301  General provisions.


    (a) A general employee whose occupational dose has exceeded the 
numerical value of any of the limits specified in Sec. 835.202 as a 
result of an authorized emergency exposure may be permitted to return to 
work in radiological areas during the current year providing that all of 
the following conditions are met:
    (1) Approval is first obtained from the contractor management and 
the Head of the responsible DOE field organization;
    (2) The individual receives counseling from radiological protection 
and medical personnel regarding the consequences of receiving additional 
occupational exposure during the year; and
    (3) The affected employee agrees to return to radiological work.
    (b) All doses exceeding the limits specified in Sec. 835.202 shall 
be recorded in the affected individual's occupational dose record.
    (c) When the conditions under which a dose was received in excess of 
the limits specified in Sec. 835.202, except those received in 
accordance with Sec. 835.204, have been eliminated, operating management 
shall notify the Head of the responsible DOE field organization.
    (d) Operations after a dose was received in excess of the limits 
specified in Sec. 835.202, except those received in accordance with 
Sec. 835.204, may be resumed only with the approval of DOE.

[58 FR 65485, Dec. 14, 1993, as amended at 63 FR 59687, Nov. 4, 1998]