Texas Administrative Code
Title 30 - ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY
Part 1 - TEXAS COMMISSION ON ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY
Chapter 336 - RADIOACTIVE SUBSTANCE RULES
Subchapter D - STANDARDS FOR PROTECTION AGAINST RADIATION
Section 336.306 - Compliance with Requirements for Summation of External and Internal Doses

Universal Citation: 30 TX Admin Code § 336.306

Current through Reg. 50, No. 13; March 28, 2025

(a) If the licensee is required to monitor under both § 336.316(1) and (2) of this title (relating to Conditions Requiring Individual Monitoring of External and Internal Occupational Dose), the licensee shall demonstrate compliance with the dose limits by summing external and internal doses. If the licensee is required to monitor only under § 336.316(1) of this title or only under § 336.316(2) of this title, then summation is not required to demonstrate compliance with the dose limits. The licensee may demonstrate compliance with the requirements for summation of external and internal doses by meeting the conditions specified in subsections (b), (c), and (d) of this section. (The dose equivalents for the lens of the eye, the skin, and the extremities are not included in the summation but are subject to separate limits.)

(b) If the only intake of radionuclides is by inhalation, the total effective dose equivalent limit is not exceeded if the sum of the deep-dose equivalent divided by the total effective dose equivalent limit and one of the following does not exceed 1:

(1) the sum of the fractions of the inhalation annual limits on intake (ALI) for each radionuclide; or

(2) the total number of derived air concentration-hours (DAC-hours) for all radionuclides divided by 2,000; or

(3) the sum of the calculated committed effective dose equivalents to all significantly irradiated organs or tissues (T) calculated from bioassay data using appropriate biological models and expressed as a fraction of the annual limit. For purposes of this requirement, an organ or tissue is deemed to be significantly irradiated if, for that organ or tissue, the product of the weighting factor (w[sub]T[/sub]) and the committed dose equivalent (H[sub]T,50[/sub]) per unit intake is greater than 10% of the maximum weighted value of H[sub]T,50[/sub] (i.e., w[sub]T[/sub]H[sub]T,50[/sub]) per unit intake for any organ or tissue.

(c) If the occupationally-exposed individual also receives an intake of radionuclides by oral ingestion greater than 10% of the applicable oral ALI, the licensee shall account for this intake and include it in demonstrating compliance with the limits.

(d) The licensee shall evaluate and, to the extent practical, account for intakes through wounds or skin absorption. (The intake through intact skin has been included in the calculation of DAC for hydrogen-3 and does not need to be further evaluated under this subsection.)

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