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Title: Conference of Radiation Control Program Directors, Inc' CRCPD


1
Conference of Radiation Control Program
Directors, Inc. (CRCPD)
  • The structure, working groups, activities and
    products of the Conference of Radiation Control
    Program Directors, Inc.

2
Type of Organization
  • Established in 1968, the CRCPD is a 501(c)(3)
    nonprofit organization, incorporated in the State
    of Kentucky, with its office located in
    Frankfort, Kentucky.

3
Why Was CRCPD Formed?
  • What is the purpose of the CRCPD?
  • What is CRCPDs mission?
  • What is the basic goal of CRCPD?
  • Who are CRCPDs members?
  • How does CRCPD function?

4
Purpose
  • To provide a common forum for the exchange of
    information among state and local radiation
    control programs.
  • To provide a mechanism for states to communicate
    with the federal government on radiation
    protection issues.

5
Mission
  • To promote consistency in addressing and
    resolving radiation protection issues.
  • To encourage high standards of quality in
    radiation protection programs.
  • To provide leadership in radiation safety and
    education.

6
Goal
  • To keep radiation exposure of the patient,
    worker, and general public to the lowest
    practical level, while not restricting the
    beneficial use of this valuable energy source.

7
Types of Membership
  • Director Members
  • State local radiation control program
    directors
  • Associate Members
  • Staff of radiation control programs in the U.S.
  • Affiliate Members
  • Anyone having an interest in CRCPD and radiation
    protection

8
Types of Membership (Cont)
  • International Members
  • Staff of radiation programs outside U. S.
  • Emeritus Members
  • Former members as approved by Board of Directors
  • Honorary Members
  • Special contribution in radiation protection

9
  • Radiation and health physicists, radiologists,
    radiologic technologists, radiation safety
    officers, radiation control managers, radiation
    industry professionals, others interested in
    radiation protection, safety specialists and
    other public health managers.

10
CRCPD Organizational Chart
11
Responsibilities
  • Membership
  • constitution, bylaws, positions, voting
  • Board
  • policy, budget, committee structure, and
    direction to Executive Director
  • Advisory Committee
  • advice to Board of Directors

12
Responsibilities (Cont.)
  • Office of Executive Director
  • Day-to-day operations, assistance to board
  • Healing Arts Council
  • Technical radiation protection issues in the
    healing arts
  • Environmental Nuclear Council
  • Technical issues relating to the protection of
    the environment

13
Responsibilities (Cont.)
  • SSRCR Council
  • Develop and publish Suggested State Regulations
    for Control of Radiation
  • General Council
  • General issues in radiation protection
  • Homeland Security/Emergency Response Council
  • WMD issues and emergency response planning

14
Revenue Sources
  • Federal Grants/Cooperative Agreements/Contracts
  • 82 of total CRCPD budget
  • Other Sources
  • 18 of total CRCPD budget

15
Other Sources
  • Membership dues
  • Registration fees
  • Sale of publications
  • Annual meeting exhibits
  • Professional Societies
  • Brokerage of Texas IR examination

16
Federal Agency Relationships
  • CRCPD, through cooperative agreements, purchase
    orders and various partnership programs, works
    very closely with the following federal agencies

17
Food Drug AdministrationCenter for Devices
Radiological Health
  • Nationwide Evaluation of X-ray Trends (NEXT)
  • Diagnostic x-ray, with a special program for
    protection of the patient from fluoroscopes
  • Special activity in mammography
  • Non-ionizing sources (laser systems, microwave
    systems, sun tanning booths)

18
Environmental Protection AgencyOffice of
Radiation Indoor Air
  • Decontamination Decommissioning
  • MARSSIM
  • Orphan sources
  • Low-level radioactive waste

19
Environmental Protection AgencyOffice of
Radiation Indoor Air (Cont.)
  • Radiation standards
  • Radon
  • National Environmental Laboratory Accreditation
    Conference (NELAC)
  • Naturally Occurring Radioactive Material (NORM)

20
Nuclear Regulatory CommissionOffice of State
Programs
  • Low-level radioactive waste
  • Code of Federal Regulations
  • Nuclear medicine
  • Transportation of radioactive material
  • Decontamination decommissioning

21
Nuclear Regulatory Commission Office of State
Programs (Cont.)
  • Orphan radioactive sources
  • Standards for radiation protection
  • Radioactive material licensing and inspection
  • Pre-decisional release of information

22
Department of Energy
  • Source Collection and Threat Reduction of
    Radioactive Materials
  • Low-level radioactive waste sites
  • Hazardous waste sites
  • Orphan radioactive sources

23
Department of Energy
  • Committee on Naval Nuclear Propulsion
  • NORM
  • DOE facility regulation

24
Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
  • Off site reactor emergency planning
  • Off site reactor emergency response
  • Thyroid protection using Potassium Iodide
  • Emergency guides
  • Pathway analysis and recommendations

25
Other Federal Agencies Working with CRCPD
  • Department of Transportation
  • Centers for Disease Control Prevention
  • Department of Homeland Security
  • National Institute of Occupational Safety
    Health

26
Other Federal Agencies Working with CRCPD (Cont.)
  • National Institute of Standards and Technology
  • Department of State
  • National Academy of Sciences

27
Related Organizations
  • International Atomic Energy Agency
  • Council of State Governments
  • American Petroleum Institute
  • American Nuclear Society
  • American Society of Non-Destructive Testing

28
Related Organizations (Cont.)
  • Association of State Territorial Health
    Officers
  • Interstate Oil Gas Compact Commission
  • American Lung Association
  • Steel Manufactures Association
  • American College of Nuclear Physicians

29
Examples of Working Groups
  • Committee on Radioactive Waste
  • Committee on Emergency Response Planning
  • Committee on Resource Recovery Radioactivity
  • Committee on Decontamination Decommissioning

30
Examples of Working Groups (Cont.)
  • Committee on Radon
  • Coordinator for Radioactive Material
    Transportation
  • Committee on Radioactive Waste Management
  • Committee on Unwanted Radioactive Materials
  • Committee on MARSSIM and MARSAME
  • Committee on Ionizing Measurements

31
Examples of Working Groups (Cont.)
  • Committee on Industrial Radiography
  • Committee on Nationwide Evaluation of X-ray
    Trends (NEXT)
  • Committee on Quality Assurance in Diagnostic
    X-ray

32
Examples of Working Groups (Cont.)
  • Committee on Naval Nuclear Propulsion
  • Committee on Mammography
  • Task Force to Monitoring Patient Dose During
    Fluoroscopy
  • Task Force for Computed Tomography (CT)/Positron
    Emission Tomography (PET)
  • Task Force for Computed Tomography (CT)
  • Training Committee

33
Examples of Working Groups (Cont.)
  • Twenty-five separate groups developing
  • Suggested State Regulations for
  • Control of Radiation

34
Formalized Liaisons
  • Association of State Drinking Water
    Administration and American Water Works
    Association
  • Association of Radon Scientists Technologists
  • Association of State Territorial Solid Waste
    Management Officials

35
Formalized Liaisons (Cont.)
  • Health Physics Society
  • National Council on Radiation Protection
  • American Academy of Health Physics
  • American Association of Physicists in Medicine

36
Formalized Liaisons (Cont.)
  • American Society of Radiologic Technologists/Ameri
    can Registry of Radiologic Technologists
  • Joint Commission
  • American College of Radiology
  • American College of Medical Physics
  • Society of Nuclear Medicine

37
Examples of Committee Activities
38
Radioactive Waste Management(Environmental
Nuclear Council)
  • Develops guidance and recommendations for states
    in regulating the management of low-level
    radioactive waste.
  • This guidance includes both technical and
    administrative recommendations for waste
    generated under the Atomic Energy Act and NARM.

39
Emergency Response Planning (Environmental
Nuclear Council)
  • Develops guidance for states in planning and
    responding to off site radiological emergencies
    around nuclear power plants, and transportation
    accidents.
  • This guidance includes "first responders,"
    protective drugs, decontamination, environmental
    and plume analysis.

40
Resource Recovery Radioactivity (Environmental
Nuclear Council)
  • Develops recommended response and event
    notification protocol when radioactivity is
    detected in metal and scrap, and recommends a
    system for reporting such incidents.
  • Develops guidance for the disposition of
    contaminated scrap and guidance on the use of
    detectors at landfills.

41
Decontamination Decommissioning (Environmental
Nuclear Council)
  • Develops recommendations for residual radiation
    level and exposure standards for decommissioned
    facilities, including guidance for adequate
    disposal of the waste produced by decontamination
    activities.

42
Radon (Environmental Nuclear Council)
  • Provides recommendations on various public
    awareness activities relative to radon assists
    in the establishment of model national
    construction radon standards and recommends
    standards and policy on radon in water.

43
Radon (Cont.) (Environmental Nuclear Council)
  • Assists in implementation of the SDWAA standard,
    and in the development of guidance for states in
    the use of the standard.
  • Plans and coordinates the National Radon
    Conference.

44
Unwanted Radioactive Materials (Environmental
Nuclear Council)
  • Develops a national system for the
    identification, characterization, packaging,
    management and disposition of unwanted or orphan
    radioactive sources.

45
Medical Practice(Healing Arts Council)
  • Recommends programs and activities for state
    implementation to reduce administratively applied
    X-rays and provides guidance for
    consumer/patient education in X-rays.

46
Nationwide Evaluation of X-ray Trends (NEXT)
(Healing Arts Council)
  • Develops guidance for states in the collection of
    data for evaluating the trends in X-ray exposure
    throughout the U.S. assist in the design and
    implementation of training courses for state NEXT
    inspectors.

47
Quality Assurance in Diagnostic X-ray (Healing
Arts Council)
  • Determine the elements of diagnostic X-ray
    technique that impact image quality and patient
    exposure to aid facilities in maintaining minimal
    patient exposure and consistent high quality
    diagnostic images.

48
Mammography (Healing Arts Council)
  • Provide a clearinghouse for issues relating to
    mammography provide comments on activities
    under MQSA solicit and synthesize states
    comments on the MQSA Inspection Program, and
    provide States recommendations in the
    development of a national inspection program.

49
Suggested State RegulationsWorking
Groups(Suggested State Regulations for Control
of Radiation Council)
  • Develop suggested state regulations for the
    control of radiation in the areas of radiation
    producing machines registration, use and
    inspection, and radioactive materials licensing,
    use and inspection.

50
Ionizing Measurements(General Council)
  • Develop and maintain the document, Ionizing
    Radiation Measurement Criteria for Regulatory
    Purposes, a document used for accurately
    measuring ionizing radiation.
  • Also, reviews and certifies regional ionizing
    calibration laboratories.

51
Industrial Radiography (General Council)
  • Develops guidance for state certification of
    industrial radiographers, providing various
    options that can be used by the states in
    certifying industrial radiographers.

52
Non-ionizing (General Council)
  • Provides guidance to states in the registration,
    regulation and inspection of non-ionizing sources
    of radiation. Sources include lasers, microwave
    systems, high voltage transmission, cellular
    phones, sun tanning booths and other sources.

53
Homeland Security Emerging Issues Committee
(Homeland Security/Emergency Response Council)
  • Identifies new HS radiation issues.
  • Recommends creation of working groups/task forces
    to address issues
  • Current topics include
  • National Monitoring System
  • Review of federal guidance for recovery from an
    RDD/IND

54
Special Services of CRCPD
  • Accreditation of regional calibration
    laboratories
  • Recognition of states that license NARM
  • Administer a U.S. DOT Exemption for moving
    contaminated scrap and trash
  • Comprehensive program review for state agencies.

55
Special Services of CRCPD (Cont.)
  • Coordinates and brokers the Texas Industrial
    Radiography Examination to states
  • Coordinates and conducts an annual National
    Conference on Radiation Control
  • Coordinates and conducts an annual National Radon
    Conference

56
Special Services of CRCPD (Cont.)
  • Assist states with orphan radioactive source
    disposition by direct broker funding for
    characterizing, packaging, and disposal or
    transfer to a licensed recipient
  • Assist in disposition of unused/disused sealed
    sources that do not meet other disposal options

57
Special Services of CRCPD (Cont.)
  • Provide a website to keep interested parties
    informed on CRCPD activities, including two
    limited access sections, Regulatory Forum for
    Director Members and Associate Members to discuss
    regulatory matters, and Members Only for
    Members to have access to financial matters of
    the CRCPD.
  • Many CRCPD documents are now on the website
    www.crcpd.org

58
Major Publications
  • Bimonthly Newsbrief
  • Directory of Personnel Responsible for
    Radiological Health
  • Proceedings of annual national conferences
  • Radon Bulletin
  • Directory of State and Federal Agencies Involved
    with Transportation of Radioactive Material

59
Major Publications (Cont.)
  • Profile of State Radiation Control Programs
  • Various technical reports relating to radiation
    protection

60
In-House Documents
  • Glossary of terms used in SSRCRs
  • Directories of commercial services, such as
  • Brokers,
  • Decontamination firms,
  • Radioassay labs,
  • Portal radiation monitors for vehicles

61
  • A Partnership

Dedicated to Radiation Protection
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