Current through 2024-51, December 18, 2024
Section 144-220-D-B-1101 - Radiation protection programsA. Each licensee or registrant shall develop, document, and implement a radiation protection program sufficient to ensure compliance with the provisions of Part D. See D.2102 for record keeping requirements relating to these programs.B. The licensee or registrant shall use, to the extent practical, procedures and engineering controls based upon sound radiation protection principles to achieve occupational doses and public doses that are as low as is reasonably achievable (ALARA).C. The licensee or registrant shall periodically (at least annually), review the radiation protection program content and implementation.D. To implement the ALARA requirements of D.1101.B and notwithstanding the requirements in D.1301, 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 10 CFR Part 50.34a of the USNRC regulations, 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 0.1mSv (10 mrem) 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 D.2203 and promptly take appropriate corrective action to ensure against recurrence.10-144 C.M.R. ch. 220, § D-B-1101