HEADUARTERS
JOINT TASK FORCE SEVEN
APO 187 (HOW), c/o Postmaster

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San Francisco, Califormia

STANDING OPERATING PROCEDURE)

NUMBER

15 February 1954

30-2)

PERSONNEL

Waiver of Maximum Permissible (Radiation) Exposure (LPs)
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1.

PURPOSE.

This SOP prescribes the procedure to be followed in the

ebaiesion of requests for waiver of Maximum Permissible (Radiation) exposure
MPE).

2.

SCOPE.

This SOP applies to this headquarters and to each Task Croup.

3. POLICY. ith the concurrence of the Surgeon General, USA; CNO and
the Chief, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, USN; the Surgeon General, USAF;
and the Director, Division of Biology and Medicine, ASC, CJTF SEVaN will take
final action on requests for waiver of MP< for work accomplished at the Facitic

Proving Grounds for ail inaiviauzis assigned or attached to Joint Task Force
SEVEN... Requests for waivers will be considered and resolved in ascerdance
with the following:

a.

Basic premises.

(1)

authority for granting a waiver will not be re-delegated

(2)

Waiver of the kPs will be used as an emergency measure only.

(3)

The need and justification for the waiver of KPE will be

except, in the absence of CJTF SiVaN, to individuals in the capacity of Acting
Commander, Joint Task Force SsVEN.

determined on the basis of the technical import and the medical aspects of

the proposed work for which the waiver of MPE is requested. This determination will be based upon the recommendations of the Scientific Director, JIF

SEVEN, and the Biomedical advisor and Staff Surgeon or, in the absence of
the abowe, their designated representatives.

(4)

Approval of request for waivers will be in terms of autnh-

orization to complete a job associated with one specific shot.

Utilization

of individuals on subsequent shots where exposure to radiation will be expected, will require additional request for waiver. It is the responsibili*7
of the project officer and individual concerned to complete the work witn
the ainimum exposure.

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