GUIDANCE RECOMMENDATIONS (REVISED)
In order to assure the protection of persons in the general

population by limiting the radiation doses that an individual in a

critical segment of the population may receive from concentrations of
transuranium elements present above average background levels in the
general environment, the following recomendations shall apply for the
guidance of Federal agencies:

1. Dose rates to persons in the general population for continuing
exposure to transuranium elements should not excced the recommendations
provided in Federal Radiation Guidance Wo. 1, and reasonable efforts

should be made to keep all exposures as low as reasonably achievable.

2.

Contamination levels in the general environment should be

limited to assure that the annual alpha radiation dose rate to members of
the critical segment of the exposed population as the result of exposure

to transuranius elements not exceed either:

‘a. 1 millirad per year to the pulmonary lung, or
b.

3.

3 millirad per year to the bone or 40 millirad per year
to the bone surfaces.

For newly contaminated areas, the Federal agency responsible for

implementation of these recommendations should take immediate action to
minimize both the residual levels of transuranium elements in the general
environment and the radiation exposure of the general public.
Determination and implementation of further appropriate measures, to
ensure that projected dose rates to persons in the general population are

as low as reasonably achievable and in full compliance with the above

recommendations, should begin as promptly as possible and should be
completed within a reasonable period of time.

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