California Code of Regulations › Title 17 - Public Health › Division 1 - State Department of Health Services › Chapter 5 - Sanitation (Environmental) › Subchapter 4 - Radiation › Group 1 - General › Article 1 - Application of Chapter 1, Definitions, and Jurisdiction › Section 30100 - General Definitions

Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 28, July 12, 2024
As used in subchapter 4:
(a) "Act" means the "Radiation Control Law,"
						Health and Safety Code, Division 104, Part 9, chapter 8, sections
						114960 et seq.
(b) "Agreement State" means any state with which
						the United States Atomic Energy Commission or Nuclear Regulatory Commission has
						entered into an effective agreement under section
						274 b of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954,
						Title 42, United States Code, section
						2021(b) (formerly
						section 274(b)).
(c) "Decommission" means to remove safely from
						service and reduce residual radioactivity to a level that permits release of the
						property for unrestricted use and termination of the license.
(d) "Department" means the California Department
						of Public Health.
(e) "Depleted uranium"
						means the source material uranium in which the isotope uranium-235 is less than
						0.711 weight percent of the total uranium present. Depleted uranium does not include
						special nuclear material.
(f) "Hazardous
						radioactive material," as used in section
						33000 of the
						California Vehicle Code and 114820(d) of the Health and Safety Code means any
						"highway route controlled quantity" of radioactive material as such material is
						defined in title 49, Code of Federal Regulations, section
						173.403.
(g) "Human use" means the internal or external
						administration of radiation or radioactive materials to human beings.
(h) "Installation" means the location where one or
						more reportable sources of radiation are possessed.
(i) "License," except where otherwise specified,
						means a license issued pursuant to group 2, Licensing of Radioactive
						Material.
(j) "Other official agency
						specifically designated by the Department" means an agency with which the Department
						has entered into an agreement pursuant to section
						114990
						of the Health and Safety Code.
(k)
						"Person" means any individual, corporation, partnership, limited liability company,
						firm, association, trust, estate, public or private institution, group, agency,
						political subdivision of this State, any other state or political subdivision or
						agency thereof, and any legal successor, representative, agent, or agency of the
						foregoing, other than the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the United
						States Department of Energy, or any successor thereto, and other than Federal
						Government agencies licensed by the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission,
						under prime contract to the United States Department of Energy, or any successor
						thereto.
(l) "Personnel monitoring
						equipment" means devices designed to be worn or carried by an individual for the
						purpose of measuring the dose received by that individual (e.g., film badges, pocket
						chambers, pocket dosimeters, film rings, etc.).
(m) "Possess" means to receive, possess, use,
						transfer or dispose of radioactive material pursuant to this regulation.
(n) "Possessing a reportable source of radiation"
						means having physical possession of, or otherwise having control of, a reportable
						source of radiation in the State of California.
(o) "Radiation" (ionizing radiation) means gamma
						rays and X-rays; alpha and beta particles, high-speed electrons, neutrons, protons,
						and other nuclear particles; but not sound or radio waves, or visible, infrared, or
						ultraviolet light.
(p) "Radiation
						machine" means any device capable of producing radiation when the associated control
						devices are operated, but excluding devices which produce radiation only by the use
						of radioactive material.
(q)
						"Radioactive material" means any material which emits radiation
						spontaneously.
(r) "Registrant" means
						any person who is registering or who has registered with the Department pursuant to
						group 1.5, Registration of Sources of Radiation.
(s) "Reportable sources of radiation" means either
						of the following:
(1) Radiation machines, when
						installed in such manner as to be capable of producing radiation.
(2) Radioactive material contained in devices
						possessed pursuant to a general license under provisions of sections
						30192.1 and
						30192.6.