Section 157.02. Applicability.

 

(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 .

CR 01-108 : cr. Register July 2002 No. 559 , eff. 8-1-02; CR 06-021 : am. (4) to (7) and (10), r. (15) Register October 2006 No. 610 , eff. 11-1-06.