Radiological Health Years 2001- 2003 in Review

1. Radiological HealthYears 2001- 2003 in Review

2. Legislation2001 General Assembly • HB 1903 Health; radon programs • SB 838 Health; radon proficiency listings

3. Legislation2003 General Assembly • HB 1524 Reporting radioactive materials • HB 2321 Health; radon testing.

4. Radiation Protection Regulations Proposed changes will include: • NRC's revisions to the Radiation Protection Standards in 1992 and again in 2000 • Adopt the latest version of the State Suggested Regulations • Implement sections of the State Code that have not been implemented, specifically bonding and surety requirements. • Published Notice of Intent November 2002 • Notice withdrawn January 2003.

5. Periodic Regulatory Review Radiation Protection Fee Regulations • Public Comment published September 2003 • Public comments suggest need to increase registration and inspection fees, and establish fees for certain new X-ray machines. • Staff agrees with public comments and recommends establishing fees for bone densitometers and certain combination dental X-ray machines.

6. Guidance Documents • Guidance on the Response to Radiological Terrorist Threats Issued July 2, 2002. • Guidance documents available online at: http://www.vdh.virginia.gov/rad/RHP-REGS.asp

7. Funding • SFY 2003 SFY2004 SFY2005/6 • General Funds 692,708 701,059 738,459 • Federal Funds • Mammography 168,723 152,325 • EPA-radon 69,532 73,883 • EPA- "Tools for 60,000 • Schools” • DEQ- Archiving 55,000 • Special Funds • DEM Environmental 20,000 22,000 • Monitoring • Other • DEM- reimburse 39,000 39,000 • for emergency prep.

8. Activity by Funding Source

9. Staffing • 14 FTEs • 2 Wage • 2 Office Temps • Turn-over • 1 Full time staff • 1 Wage staff

10. Fred Gorisch

11. John S. Marr, M.D. Director, Office of Epidemiology

12. Activities • Radioactive Materials- Licensure • X-ray Machine- Registration • Emergency Planning • Emergency/Incident Response • Radon • Environmental Monitoring • Special Projects- Tools for Schools/ Environmental Archiving

13. Agreement Non-Agreement Ltr of Intent

14. Emergency Planning • Training • Equipment Support • Full Scale Ingestion Exercise July 15-17, 2003 at Surry Nuclear Power Station with federal participation. • Staff working closely with Shipyards on emergency planning.

15. Potassium Iodine Thyroid Blocker • FDA issues advisory on the use of KI based on Chernobyl data. • NRC issues new rule on December 21, 2000 regarding stockpiling KI for public and offers KI to states. • Virginia accepts KI from NRC for distribution to public. • VDH adopts FDA guidance for most sensitive member of general public and applies to emergency workers and entire general public. • National Academy of Science announces report on the use of KI (December 2003).

16. Emergency/Incident Response • US DOT exemptions for scrap metal (7) and municipal waste shipments(1) and responds to returned shipments.

17. Orphan Source • US Dept. of Energy provides funding for disposal of orphan radioactive sources. • Conference of Radiation Control Program Directors (CRCPD) administers funds. • States enter into an agreement with CRCPD for selecting a Radioactive materials broker and approval from CRCPD for payment of disposal. • VDH identified a scrap metal dealer in Virginia who has received a returned shipment containing an orphan source.

19. Tools For Schools

20. ERAMS Searchable Database Contains 23 years of environmental radiation monitoring data from all fifty states and U.S. territories and 40 years of measurements of strontium in milk. http://www.epa.gov/enviro/html/erams/ VDH has ~25 years data for two nuclear power stations and BWXT. VDH participates in a pilot program to archive data.