[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 127 (Friday, July 1, 2011)]
[Rules and Regulations]
[Page 38550]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-16575]



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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

10 CFR Part 835


Technical Standard DOE-STD-1095-2011, Department of Energy 
Laboratory Accreditation for External Dosimetry

AGENCY: Office of Health, Safety and Security, Department of Energy.

ACTION: Notification of updated Technical Standard.

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SUMMARY: The Department of Energy (DOE or the Department) is issuing 
Technical Standard DOE-STD-1095-2011, Department of Energy Laboratory 
Accreditation for External Dosimetry, January 2011. This standard 
provides updated technical criteria for performance testing for, and 
provides a requirement for onsite quality assurance assessments of, 
whole body and extremity dosimetry programs in use at DOE sites. The 
testing and assessment results are used, in part, to determine whether 
to accredit dosimetry programs in accordance with the DOE Laboratory 
Accreditation Program (DOELAP). The effective date for the new 
Technical Standard is April 1, 2011.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Steven G. Zobel, CHP, U.S. Department 
of Energy, Office of Health, Safety and Security, Office of Corporate 
Safety Analysis, 1000 Independence Ave., SW., Washington, DC 20585, 
301-903-2615, or [email protected].
    An electronic copy of this Federal Register notice, as well as 
other relevant DOE documents concerning this subject, is available on a 
Web page at: http://www.hss.energy.gov/CSA/CSP/doelap/index.html.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: DOE previously administered its laboratory 
accreditation program for whole body external dosimetry pursuant to DOE 
Order 5480.15, Department of Energy Laboratory Accreditation Program 
for Personnel Dosimetry, dated December 14, 1987. At that time, DOELAP 
used Technical Standards DOE/EH-0027, Department of Energy Standard for 
the Performance Testing of Personnel Dosimetry Systems, December 1986, 
and DOE/EH-0026, Handbook for the Department of Energy Laboratory 
Accreditation Program for Personnel Dosimetry Systems, December 1986, 
to evaluate contractor personnel dosimetry programs. DOE/EH-0027 was 
based on American National Standards Institute (ANSI) N13.11-1983, 
American National Standard--Criteria for Testing Personnel Dosimetry 
Performance, Pacific Northwest Laboratory PNL-4515, Criteria for 
Testing Personnel Dosimetry Performance, 1984, and comments received 
during peer review by DOE and DOE contractor personnel. Both DOELAP 
Technical Standards remained in effect through 2010.
    On December 14, 1993, DOE promulgated 10 CFR part 835, Occupational 
Radiation Protection, (58 FR 65458), which included a requirement for 
DOELAP accreditation for external dosimetry programs. This regulatory 
requirement led to the cancellation of DOE Order 5480.15. Technical 
Standard DOE-STD-1095-95, Department of Energy Laboratory Accreditation 
Program for Personnel Dosimetry Systems, was published in December 1995 
to establish the criteria for DOELAP accreditation pursuant to 10 CFR 
835.402(b). The recent updating of ANSI standards for performance 
testing whole body dosimeters (ANSI N13.11-2009, American National 
Standard for Dosimetry--Personnel Dosimetry Performance--Criteria for 
Testing) and extremity dosimeters (ANSI N13.32-2008, American National 
Standard--Performance Testing of Extremity Dosimeters) led DOE to 
revise its DOELAP dosimetry Technical Standards. In planning the 
revision, it was decided to make DOE-STD-1095 the primary Technical 
Standard for accrediting external dosimetry programs by cancelling DOE/
EH-0026 and -0027 and incorporating both of the recently updated ANSI 
standards by reference into the new DOE Technical Standard. Other 
changes include changing ``Personnel Dosimetry Systems'' to ``External 
Dosimetry'' in the title of the new Technical Standard, providing for 
limited retesting, and adding an incentive for obtaining an exemption 
from a future onsite assessment. The change to the Technical Standard's 
title was made to better identify the Standard's purpose and does not 
change the requirement for dosimetry program accreditation provided in 
10 CFR 835.402(b). The guidance information in DOE/EH-0026 and -0027 
will be updated and published in a supplemental, nonregulatory 
document.
    This Technical Standard is effective on April 1, 2011.

    Issued in Washington, DC.
Glenn S. Podonsky,
Chief Health, Safety and Security Officer, Office of Health, Safety and 
Security.
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