Wisconsin Administrative Code › Department of Health Services › DHS 110-199 - Health › Chapter DHS 157 - Radiation Protection › Subchapter I - General Provisions › Section DHS 157.02 - Applicability

Current through June 24, 2024
(1) Except as specified, this chapter applies
				  to all persons who receive, possess, use, transfer, own or acquire any source
				  of radiation, except that nothing in this chapter shall apply to any person
				  subject to regulation by the U.S. nuclear regulatory commission.
(2) A licensee subject to the requirements of
				  subch. II is also subject to the requirements of subchs. I, III, X and
				  XIII.
(3) Subchapter III applies to
				  all persons licensed or registered by the department to receive, possess, use,
				  transfer or dispose of sources of radiation. The limits in subch. III do not
				  apply to doses due to background radiation, to exposure of patients to
				  radiation for the purpose of medical diagnosis or therapy, or to voluntary
				  participation in medical research programs.
(4) The requirements of subch. IV are for
				  industrial radiography operations and are in addition to the requirements of
				  subchs. I, II, III, VIII, X, XI, XII, and XIII.
(5) Subchapter V applies to all licensees or
				  registrants who use sources of radiation for well logging including
				  mineral-logging, radioactive markers and subsurface tracer studies. The
				  requirements of subch. V are in addition to the requirements of subchs. I, II,
				  III, VIII, X, XI, XII and XIII.
(6)
				  Subchapter VI applies to all persons using radioactive material in the healing
				  arts. The requirements of subch. VI are in addition to the requirements of
				  subchs. I, II, III, X, XI, XII and XIII.
(7) Subchapter VII applies to panoramic
				  irradiators having either dry or wet storage of the radioactive sealed sources
				  and to underwater irradiators in which both the source and the product being
				  irradiated are submerged. Irradiators whose dose rates exceed 5 grays (500
				  rads) per hour at one meter from the radioactive sealed sources in air or in
				  water, as applicable for the irradiator type, are covered by subch. VII.
				  Nothing in subch. VII relieves a licensee from complying with other federal,
				  state and local regulations governing the siting, zoning, land use and building
				  code requirements for industrial facilities. Subchapter VII does not apply to
				  self-contained dry-source-storage irradiators in which both the source and the
				  area subject to irradiation are contained within a device and are not
				  accessible by personnel, medical radiology or teletherapy, radiography for the
				  irradiation of materials for nondestructive testing purposes, gauging or
				  open-field, agricultural irradiations. The requirements of subch. VII are in
				  addition to the requirements of subchs. I, II, III, X, XI, XII and
				  XIII.
(8) Subchapter VIII applies
				  to all persons registered to use x-ray devices. The requirements of subch. VIII
				  are in addition to the requirements of subchs. I, III, X, XI and XII.
(9) Subchapter IX applies to all persons
				  registered to use cabinet and analytical x-ray devices. The requirements of
				  subch. IX are in addition to the requirements of subchs. I, III, VIII, X, XI
				  and XII.
(10) The requirements of
				  subch. X apply to all persons who receive, possess, use, own or transfer
				  sources of radiation registered with or licensed by the department under
				  subchs. II and VIII of this chapter.
(11) Subchapter XI applies to all persons who
				  receive, possess, use, own or transfer radioactive materials or radiation
				  producing machines licensed by or registered with the department.
(12) Subchapter XII applies to all persons
				  who possess, use, store, transfer or receive radioactive materials, or who
				  possess radiation machines.
(13)
				  Subchapter XIII applies to any person who transports radioactive material or
				  delivers radioactive material to a carrier for transport.
(14) The radioactivity requirements in subch.
				  XIV apply to all community water systems, except those meeting all of the
				  conditions of s.
				  DHS
				  157.95.