[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 10, Volume 1]
[Revised as of January 1, 2003]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 10CFR20.1501]

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                            TITLE 10--ENERGY
 
                CHAPTER I--NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
 
PART 20--STANDARDS FOR PROTECTION AGAINST RADIATION--Table of Contents
 
                    Subpart F--Surveys and Monitoring
 
Sec. 20.1501  General.

    Source: 56 FR 23398, May 21, 1991, unless otherwise noted.


    (a) Each licensee shall make or cause to be made, surveys that--
    (1) May be necessary for the licensee to comply with the regulations 
in this part; and
    (2) Are reasonable under the circumstances to evaluate--
    (i) The magnitude and extent of radiation levels; and
    (ii) Concentrations or quantities of radioactive material; and
    (iii) The potential radiological hazards.
    (b) The licensee shall ensure that instruments and equipment used 
for quantitative radiation measurements (e.g., dose rate and effluent 
monitoring) are calibrated periodically for the radiation measured.
    (c) All personnel dosimeters (except for direct and indirect reading 
pocket ionization chambers and those dosimeters used to measure the dose 
to the extremities) that require processing to determine the radiation 
dose and that are used by licensees to comply with Sec. 20.1201, with 
other applicable provisions of this chapter, or with conditions 
specified in a license must be processed and evaluated by a dosimetry 
processor--
    (1) Holding current personnel dosimetry accreditation from the 
National Voluntary Laboratory Accreditation Program (NVLAP) of the 
National Institute of Standards and Technology; and

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    (2) Approved in this accreditation process for the type of radiation 
or radiations included in the NVLAP program that most closely 
approximates the type of radiation or radiations for which the 
individual wearing the dosimeter is monitored.

[56 FR 23398, May 21, 1991, as amended at 63 FR 39482, July 23, 1998]