Protective Action Guides PAGs Update

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Protective Action Guides(PAGs) Update

• SCAPA Meeting May 8, 2008
• Edward Tupin
• Radiation Protection Division

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Overview

• Milestones achieved since last year
• PAGs status and next steps
• Comparing 1992 and 2008 PAGs
• DHS RDD-IND PAG document
• FAQs development
• Outreach strategies

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Milestones Achieved Since Last Year
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Milestones Achieved Since Last Year

• New FRMAC-generated tables (9/06-2/07)
• Dose conversion factors (DCF) and derived
  response levels (DRL)
• ICRP 60 series basis
• Match FRMAC tools
• Four-hour workshop development (3/07-5/07)
• Refresher on PAGs, what is changing in the draft
  revision, calculation examples
• Presented at NREP and CRCPD meetings
• Scripted presentation online

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Milestones (continued)

• Resolution of key issues (1/07-3/07)
• Benchmark table footnote
• Worker health and safety language
• Optimization details or not
• IND Appendix or not
• Interagency showstoppers review (4/07-5/07)
• Comments from DOE and NRC
• Deletion of thyroid-driven evacuation
• OSHA worker health and safety language edits
• Worker guides TEDE with non-NPP nuclides

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Milestones (continued)

• Showstopper resolution (6/07-7/07)
• Tiered the comments
• Discussed substantive issues with Subcommittee
• Final, final, final federal review
• Completed in Aug. 2007

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Status and Next Steps
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Where Are They Now?

• OMB Review
• Submitted to OMB in November 2007
• Federal Register Notice of Availability
• Publication for review and comment
• 60-day comment period

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What Next?

• Write response to comments document
• Incorporate comments
• Federal review(s)
• Finalize, publish, and print
• Continue outreach

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Future PAG Manual Possibilities

• PAGs Volume 1 and 2
• Vol. 1 -- user friendly summary
• Vol. 2 -- detailed technical basis
• Guidance on how to develop turnbacks
• Mission- and capability- specific
• More detail on how to do Optimization

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Comparing 1992 and 2008 PAGs
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Early Phase

• 1992
• Evacuation/Shelter 1-5 rem (10-50 mSv)
• KI 25 rem (250 mSv) thyroid dose (adult)
• Worker 5, 10, 25 rem (50, 100, 250 mSv)

• 2008
• Evacuation/Shelter 1-5 rem (10-50 mSv)
• KI 5 rem (50 mSv) thyroid dose (child)
• Worker 5, 10, 25 rem (50, 100, 250 mSv)
• no more skin/thyroid footnote

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Intermediate Phase

• 1992
• Relocate population
• 2 rem projected dose in the first year
• 0.5 rem projected dose in subsequent years
• 5 rem projected dose over 50 years
• Apply dose reduction techniques
• lt 2 rem (20 mSv)
• Food PAG (1982)
• Drinking Water PAG (promised)

• 2008
• Relocate population
• 2 rem projected dose in the first year
• 0.5 rem projected dose in subsequent years
• Apply dose reduction techniques
• lt 2 rem (20 mSv)
• Food (1998)
• Drinking water
• 0.5 rem (5 mSv) first year CEDE

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FDA Food PAGs

• 1992
• 1982 FDA guidance
• NCRP 39 methodology
• Preventive PAG 0.5 rem whole body and 1.5 rem
  thyroid
• Emergency PAG 10 times higher, depends on impact
• Dose level only, no activity levels provided

• 2008
• 1998 FDA guidance
• ICRP 56 NRPB methodology
• One set of PAGs
• 0.5 rem whole body dose or
• 5 rem to most exposed organ or tissue in the
  first year
• Derived Intervention Level (DIL) calculated for
  28 radionuclides

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Drinking Water PAG

• 1992
• Promised

• 2008
• Applicable to drinking water from any source
• EPA Safe Drinking Water Act levels after first
  year
• Doses will be greatly reduced in subsequent years
• Bridging language to explain FDA Food PAG
  (includes water) and EPA Water PAG relationship

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Late Phase Guidance

• 1992
• Promised

• 2008
• DHS RDD/IND Consequence Management Workgroup
  drafted current guidance
• January 3, 2006, Federal Register notice
• All radiological events covered (e.g., nuclear
  plant, dirty bomb, improvised nuke)
• Optimization

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DHS RDD-IND PAG Document
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DHS Document Finalization

• Multi-agency workgroup meetings
• Response to comments
• Public comments
• Federal comments
• Minor changes to the document (next slide)
• OMB review
• Deputy Secretary-level approvals
• Final DHS document published in FR

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Changes to the DHS document

• Enhance guidance for INDs
• Future effort with Office of Science Technology
  Policy lead
• Public, workers, planners need guidance for first
  few hours
• Incorporate ICS/NIMS language
• DHS document drafted prior to NRP (now NRF)
• Technical and stakeholder working groups work
  under IC/UC
• Edit worker health and safety language
• Not adopting NCRPs 50 rem for lifesaving
• Clearly state relationship to EPA PAG Manual
• DHS document to be incorporated into EPA Manual

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Blending DHS and EPA PAGs

• Incorporate DHS changes into EPA PAG Manual after
  the public comment period
• New IND guidance also will be incorporated when
  it is finished
• FAQs and outreach to be done by EPA!

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Outreach Strategies
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Outreach Strategies

• Improved PAGs web page with timeline
• www.epa.gov/radiation/rert/pags.htm
• New FAQs under development
• Reach out to locals through emergency response,
  homeland security conferences

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Outreach Strategies

• Four- hour workshops at two conferences (NREP and
  CRCPD last April and May)
• What PAGs do and dont do
• Refresher on how to use the Manual
• Feedback on updates and revision
• The scripted presentation is available for you to
  use
• On the PAGs web page

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Outreach So Far

• National Radiological Emergency Preparedness
  Conference
• Conference of Radiation Control Program Directors
• Baltimore-Washington Chapter of the Health
  Physics Society
• Organization of Agreement States
• Office of Air and Radiation Assistant
  Administrators (x2)
• Tom Dunne, Office of Homeland Security
• Office of General Counsel (ARLO and SWERLO)
• Japan Atomic Energy Agency and Nuclear Security
  Agency
• Interagency Steering Committee on Radiation
  Standards
• T4 National Planning Seminar
• Federal Radiological Preparedness Coordinating
  Committee (x7)
• Armed Forces Radiobiology Research Institute
  Medical Effects of Ionizing Radiation Course
• Superfund National Radiation Meeting
• OSC Readiness
• Association of State and Territorial Health
  Officials

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Fabulous Fact Sheet
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Future Outreach Ideas

• Train the trainer modules
• Webcasts
• DVDs

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FAQs Development
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Frequently Asked Questions

• Developing FAQs for PAGs web site
• Includes FAQs about DHS RDD-IND document
• Adding questions received at outreaches

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Activity FAQs

• Activity
• In teams of two people each, think of two FAQs
  and write them on cards
• Answers not required!
• Topic ideas
• Pets, KI, reentry, return, decon runoff, dose
  modeling, SI units, packaged foods, Advisory
  Team, Federal Guidance, hot zone, public
  messages, contamination spread, KI for workers,
  turnback levels, valuable property, OSHA
  enforcement
• Share a few of them

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How to Stay Sharp

• Web site
• www.epa.gov/radiation
• Give outreach presentations
• You dont even have to write the presentation
  you can use the one on the web page, or edit it
  to meet your needs!
• Exercise participation
• Nuclear power plant exercise evaluator or
  observer

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Questions and Comments