New Mexico Register / Volume XXXV, Issue 7
/ April 9, 2024
This is an amendment
to 20.3.12 NMAC, Section 13 effective 05/01/2024
20.3.12.13 PERSONNEL MONITORING:
A. The licensee may not permit an individual to act as a
logging supervisor or logging assistant unless that person wears, at all times during the handling of licensed radioactive
materials, a personnel dosimeter [that is processed and evaluated by an
accredited national voluntary laboratory accreditation program (NVLAP)
processor]. Each personnel dosimeter
shall be assigned to and worn by only one individual. Film badges shall be replaced at least monthly
and other personnel dosimeters [replaced] evaluated at least
quarterly. [After replacement, each
personnel dosimeter shall be promptly processed.]
B. The licensee shall provide bioassay services to
individuals using licensed radioactive materials in subsurface tracer studies
if required by the license.
C. Recordkeeping. The
licensee shall retain records of personnel dosimeters required by Subsection A
of this section and bioassay results for inspection until the department
authorizes disposition of the records.
[20.3.12.13 NMAC -
Rp, 20.3.12.1216 NMAC, 6/30/2011; A, 05/01/2024]