3150-AI63 201610 The Regulatory Plan and the Unified Agenda of Federal Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions 3150 Nuclear Regulatory Commission NRC Medical Use of Byproduct Material--Medical Event Definitions, Training and Experience, and Clarifying Amendments [NRC-2008-0175]

The final rule would amend the Commission's medical use regulations in part 35. The final rule addresses three ongoing rulemaking projects and several other related topics. First, this rule amends the reporting and notification requirements for a medical event for permanent implant brachytherapy. Second, the rule would amend: 1) The training and experience (T&E) requirement for a written attestation statement for an individual who is certified by a recognized specialty board; requirements for authorized users, medical physicists, Radiation Safety Officers, and nuclear pharmacists; 2) the requirements for measuring molybdenum contamination and reporting of failed technetium and rubidium generators; and 3) allows Associate Radiation Safety Officers to be named on a medical license. Third, the rule makes changes to address a request filed in a petition for rulemaking (PRM-35-20) to exempt certain board-certified individuals from certain T&E requirements (i.e., "grandfather" these individuals) so that they may be identified on a license or permit for materials and uses that they performed on or before October 24, 2005, the expiration date of the former subpart J of part 35 which contained the prior T&E requirements.

 

 

]]> Substantive, Nonsignificant Previously Published in The Unified Agenda Final Rule Stage No No 10 CFR 35 42 U.S.C. 2201 42 U.S.C. 5841 No NPRM 07/21/2014 79 FR 42410 NPRM Comment Period End 11/18/2014 Final Rule 12/00/2016 The NRC received 69 comment letters containing over a hundred individual comments. The commenters included several medical professional societies including the American Brachytherapy Society, American College of Radiology, Health Physics Society, American Society for Radiation Oncology, American Association of Physicists in Medicine, Council on Radionuclides and Radiopharmaceuticals, the Organization of the Agreement States, the Conference of Radiation Control Program Directors, individual States, practicing physicians, medical physicists, radiation safety officers, nuclear pharmacists, individual members of the public, and a member of the Congress. No No None www.regulations.gov (search for Docket ID NRC-2008-0175) www.regulations.gov (search for Docket ID NRC-2008-0175) No No 3150-AI26 Merged with Torre Taylor 3150 Nuclear Regulatory Commission NRC 301 415-7900 torre.taylor@nrc.gov Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards, Washington DC 20555-0001