Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 19 - Public Health and Safety › 24 - Radiation Sources and Radioactive Materials › Section 19-24-2 - Definitions

Current through July 10, 2024
(a) As used in sections
			 19-24-1 to
			 19-24-14,
			 inclusive:
"Airborne radioactive material" means any radioactive material
				dispersed in the air in the form of dusts, fumes, mists, vapors or
				gases;
"Calendar quarter" means any period determined according to
				either of the following methods:
(1)
			 The first period of thirteen complete, consecutive calendar weeks in a calendar
			 year; the second period of thirteen complete, consecutive calendar weeks in a
			 calendar year; the third period of thirteen complete, consecutive calendar
			 weeks in a calendar year; the fourth period of thirteen complete, consecutive
			 calendar weeks in a calendar year. Alternately the four periods may consist of
			 the first fourteen complete, consecutive calendar weeks; the next twelve
			 complete, consecutive calendar weeks; the next fourteen complete, consecutive
			 calendar weeks, and the last twelve complete, consecutive calendar weeks. If at
			 the end of a calendar year there are any days not falling within a complete
			 calendar week of that year, such days shall be included within the last
			 complete calendar week of that year. If at the beginning of any calendar year
			 there are days not falling within a complete calendar week of that year, such
			 days shall be included within the last complete calendar week of the previous
			 year.
(2) The first period of three
			 consecutive months of any year beginning on any date in January. The second,
			 third, and fourth periods of three consecutive months of any year accordingly
			 beginning on the same date in April, July and October respectively. The fourth
			 period shall extend into January of the succeeding year if necessary to
			 complete a three-month period. The method of determining calendar quarters
			 shall not be changed except at the beginning of a calendar year.
"Department" means the state department of environmental
				protection.
"High radiation area" means any area accessible to individuals
				in which there exists radiation originating from radioactive materials or other
				sources of ionizing radiation at such levels that a major portion of the body
				could receive in any one hour a dose in excess of one hundred millirem.
"Individual" means any human being.
"Installation" means a location where for a period of more than
				thirty days one or more sources of radiation are received, possessed, operated,
				handled, used, stored or manufactured.
"Mobile source" means a source of radiation used, operated or
				stored outside an installation. If a mobile source is used routinely in one
				location, it shall be considered a fixed installation.
"Occupational dose" means exposure of an individual to
				radiation during or in the course of employment, provided occupational dose
				shall not be deemed to include any exposure to radiation which was administered
				for the purpose of diagnosis or therapy by or under supervision of a licensed
				healing arts practitioner as authorized by law.
"Owner of an installation" means the person owning or having
				actual control of sources of radiation located within the installation.
"Owner of a mobile source" means the person owning or having
				actual control thereof.
"Person" means any individual, corporation, partnership, 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.
"Radiation" means ionizing radiation.
"Radiation area" means any area accessible to individuals in
				which there exists radiation originating from radioactive materials or other
				sources of ionizing radiation at such levels that a major portion of the body
				could receive in any one hour a dose in excess of five millirem or in any five
				consecutive days a dose in excess of one hundred millirem.
" 10 CFR 20 " means title 10, chapter I, Code of Federal
				Regulations - Energy, part 20, "Standards For Protection Against Radiation,"
				Rules and Regulations of the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission. A
				current copy is on file with the department at Hartford.