ARPANSA - Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Agency

2 May 2008

Draft Amendment to the National Directory for Radiation Protection

The Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Agency is inviting submissions on Amendment No. 2 to the National Directory for Radiation Protection.

The aim of the Directory is to provide nationally uniform requirements for the protection of people and the environment against exposure or potential exposure to ionizing and non-ionizing radiation and for the safety of radiation sources, including provision for the national adoption of codes and standards. The Directory has been developed to address the needs of radiation protection regulators but it will also benefit other sectors involved in implementing radiation controls, such as mining and occupational health and safety regulators.

Edition 1.0 of the National Directory for Radiation Protection was published in August 2004.

Amendment No. 2 to the Directory proposes clarifications to the exemption provisions, particularly those related to exemption of naturally-occurring radionuclides and to exemption of bulk quantities of material, by adding a number of footnotes to the exemption clauses. Schedule 5 of the Directory is also proposed to be amended to extend the list of specific exemptions to cover a range of low activity radioactive sources.

Comments are also invited on the accompanying Best Practice Regulation Preliminary Assessment.

The following documents provide essential information to assist the submission process:

• Invitation to Comment (PDF 36k)
• Public Consultation Draft Amendment No. 2 to the National Directory for Radiation Protection (PDF 35k)
• Best Practice Regulation Preliminary Assessment (PDF 385k)

Requests for hardcopies can be made by email to secretariat@arpansa.gov.au or by telephoning (03) 9433 2339.

Public submissions should be forwarded before 13 June 2008 and addressed to:

Mr Alan Melbourne
Manager, Standards Development and Committee Support Section
ARPANSA
619 Lower Plenty Road
Yallambie VIC 3085

Or by email to: secretariat@arpansa.gov.au
(Electronic submissions are preferred)

All submissions will be held in a register of submissions, and unless marked confidential, may be made public.

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