[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 10, Volume 1]
[Revised as of January 1, 2004]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 10CFR20.1101]

[Page 329]
 
                            TITLE 10--ENERGY
 
                CHAPTER I--NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
 
PART 20--STANDARDS FOR PROTECTION AGAINST RADIATION--Table of Contents
 
                Subpart B--Radiation Protection Programs
 
Sec. 20.1101  Radiation protection programs.

    Source: 56 FR 23396, May 21, 1991, unless otherwise noted.


    (a) Each licensee shall develop, document, and implement a radiation 
protection program commensurate with the scope and extent of licensed 
activities and sufficient to ensure compliance with the provisions of 
this part. (See Sec. 20.2102 for recordkeeping requirements relating to 
these programs.)
    (b) The licensee shall use, to the extent practical, procedures and 
engineering controls based upon sound radiation protection principles to 
achieve occupational doses and doses to members of the public that are 
as low as is reasonably achievable (ALARA).
    (c) The licensee shall periodically (at least annually) review the 
radiation protection program content and implementation.
    (d) To implement the ALARA requirements of Sec. 20.1101 (b), and 
notwithstanding the requirements in Sec. 20.1301 of this part, a 
constraint on air emissions of radioactive material to the environment, 
excluding Radon-222 and its daughters, shall be established by licensees 
other than those subject to Sec. 50.34a, such that the individual 
member of the public likely to receive the highest dose will not be 
expected to receive a total effective dose equivalent in excess of 10 
mrem (0.1 mSv) per year from these emissions. If a licensee subject to 
this requirement exceeds this dose constraint, the licensee shall report 
the exceedance as provided in Sec. 20.2203 and promptly take 
appropriate corrective action to ensure against recurrence.

[56 FR 23396, May 21, 1991, as amended at 61 FR 65127, Dec. 10, 1996; 63 
FR 39482, July 23, 1998]