New Mexico Administrative Code
Title 20 - ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
Chapter 3 - RADIATION PROTECTION
Part 4 - STANDARDS FOR PROTECTION AGAINST RADIATION
Section 20.3.4.416 - GENERAL REQUIREMENTS FOR SURVEY AND MONITORING
Current through Register Vol. 35, No. 6, March 26, 2024
A. Each licensee or registrant shall make, or cause to be made, surveys of areas, including the subsurface, that:
B. The licensee or registrant shall ensure that instruments and equipment used for quantitative radiation measurements (e.g. dose rate and effluent monitoring) are calibrated at intervals not to exceed 12 months, except when a more frequent interval is specified in another applicable part of this chapter or in a license condition.
C. All personnel dosimeters (except for direct and indirect reading pocket ionization chambers and those dosimeters used to measure the dose to the extremity) that require processing to determine the radiation dose and that are used by licensees and registrants to comply with 20.3.4.405 NMAC, with other applicable provisions of this chapter or with conditions specified in a license or registration shall be processed and evaluated by a dosimetry processor:
D. The licensee or registrant shall ensure that adequate precautions are taken to prevent a deceptive exposure of an individual monitoring device.