Document: NRC Regulatory Guide
Document ID: a5cfec96-8785-464b-ada8-dc4424b90606
Document Type: regulatory_guide
Title: Quality Assurance for Radiological Monitoring Programs
Source: NRC Regulatory Guide Division 4
Source URL: https://www.nrc.gov/docs/ML0630/ML063060429.pdf
Revision Date: 2023-06
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Section ID: RG-4.15
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onclusion Based on this regulatory analysis, the NRC staff recommends issuing Revision 2 to Regulatory Guide 4.15, which will update technical and programmatic guidance to be consistent with industry- consensus standards, Federal practice as endorsed in MARSSIM and MARLAP, and current NRC regulations. The NRC staff concludes that the proposed action will provide comprehensive and consistent guidance for use by licensees in developing QA program elements needed for ensuring the quality of radiological effluent and environmental monitoring measurements. Adherence to the revised guide will lead to further reduced costs by industry because it will not need to determine, without agency guidance, which of several competing or alternative QA methodologies to follow. 5. Implementation The effective date for this guide will be 30 days after final issuance. BACKFIT ANALYSIS Although this draft regulatory guide offers significant improvements in programmatic and technical guidance for QA and QC for radioactive effluent and environmental monitoring, it does not impose any new or additional requirements. It incorporates updated scientific and regulatory concepts concerning radioanalytical QA published previously by the NRC and industry not as requirements, but as good practices. Licensees may continue to use the original version of this regulatory guide if they so choose. No backfit, as defined in 10 CFR 50.109, “Backfitting,” is either intended or implied. 13 Copies of all ANSI publications cited in this document may be purchased from the American National Standards Institute, 1819 L Street, NW, 6th floor, Washington, DC 20036. Purchase information is available through the ANSI Web site at http://webstore.ansi.org/ansidocstore/default.asp. 14 Copies of all EPA quality system publications are available for download free of charge from the EPA public Web site at http://www.epa.gov/quality/qa_docs.html. DG-4010, Page 21 REFERENCES ANSI/ASQC E4, “Specifications and Guidelines