Federal guidance is a set of guidelines developed
by EPA, for use by Federal and State agencies responsible
for protecting the public from the harmful effects of radiation.
These summaries provide current scientific and technical information
for radiation dose and risk assessment:
Report No.
Technical
Documents
13
Cancer Risk Coefficients for Environmental Exposure
to Radionuclides
Update
to the Federal Guidance Report No. 13
CD Supplement (April, 2002)
*
Contents of 2002 Supplement:
Interactive Viewer for Risk and Dose Coefficients (Installs
on user's hard drive.)
PDF Files
FG Report 11 (EPA 520/1-88-020)
FG Report 12 (EPA 402-R--93-001)
FG Report 13 (EPA 402-R-99-001)
Radiogenic Cancer Risk (EPA 402-R-93-076)
FG-13 QA Report (ORNL)
FGR-13 DATA Archive (ASCII Files)
Archives of FGR-13 materials in following folder
DCAL: DCAL input files used in preparation of FGR-13
RISK: US survival function, lifetime risk coefficients
(LRC), cancer vs. organ mapping, age/gender usage
data, lifetime risk per unit intake as a function
of age for ingestion and intakes of the radionuclides
CANCER: US age and gender specific cancer force
of mortality files
DOSE: Age-specific absorbed dose rate (low &
high LET) for each cancer site following a unit intake
via ingestion and inhalation at the specified age
FGR-13PAK:FORTRAN source code and data files to
access FGR-13 risk and dose coefficients from user
programs
*The August 2000 CD Supplement contains errors in the viewer,
and should be replaced with the April 2002 Revision.
To obtain copies of the CD, request EPA 402-C-99-001: By e-mail:
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Office of Radiation and Indoor Air
Radiation Protection Division
1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW (MC 6608J)
Washington, DC 20460-0001
This report provides methods and data for estimating
risks due to both internal and external radionuclide exposures.
It includes coefficients for assessing cancer risks from
environmental exposure to about 800 radionuclides. Both
mortality and incidence risk coefficients are tabulated
for inhalation, food and water ingestion, submersion in
air and exposure to uniform soil concentrations. The age-averaged
coefficients consider age-specific intake rates, dose
modeling, and risk modeling. The information presented
in this report is for use in assessing risks from radionuclide
exposure in a variety of applications ranging from environmental
impact analyses of specific sites to the general analyses
that support rulemaking.
This report provides derived guides (limiting values) of
radionuclide intake and air concentration for control of
occupational exposure that are consistent with 1987 Federal
Guidance Document, Radiation Protection Guidance to Federal
Agencies for Occupational Exposure. The derived guides serve
as the basis for regulations setting upper bounds on the
inhalation and ingestion of, and submersion in, radioactive
materials in the workplace. The report also includes tables
of exposure-to-dose conversion factors for general use in
assessing average individual committed doses in any population
that is adequately characterized by Reference Man (ICRP
1975). This report supercedes Federal Guidance Report No.
10.
This report provides numerical values for the concentrations
of radioactivity in air and water, corresponding to the
limiting annual doses recommended for workers in the 1960
Federal Guidance Document, Radiation Protection Guidance
for Federal Agencies.
The Radioactivity Concentration Guides [EPA 520/1-84-010]
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Federal Guidance
Report No. 9
This report, prepared by the "Interagency Working
Group on Medical Radiation" provides the basis for
the Federal Guidance Document, Radiation Protection Guidance
to Federal Agencies for Diagnostic X-rays.
This report provides background material used in the development
of guidance for Federal agencies in planning activities
to protect the population from strontium-89, strontium-90,
and cesium-137 for certain situations.
This report documents a study showing that the predictions
in FRC Report No. 4, were substantially correct, and the
conclusions in that report still apply.
This guidance provides background material used in the
development of guidance for Federal agencies for (1) planning
protective actions to reduce potential doses to the population
from radioactive fission products which may contaminate
food, and (2) doses at which implementation of protective
actions may be appropriate.
This report provides an analysis of the levels of fallout
anticipated in 1963 and subsequent years following the programs
of atmospheric nuclear weapons testing conducted through
1962. The report forecasts a substantial increase in the
probable levels of radionuclides from fallout during 1963
with decreasing quantities in subsequent years.
This report evaluates the health implication of fallout
from nuclear weapons testing conducted through 1961. It
concluded that nuclear testing through 1961 increased by
small amounts the normal risks of adverse health effects
to the general population.
This report provides the background information for the
1961 Federal Guidance Document. It includes Radiation Protection
Guides for certain organs of individuals in the general
population, as well as averages over exposed populations.
This report provides the background information for the
development of the 1960 and 1961 Federal Guidance Documents.
It introduced and defined the term "Radiation Protection
Guide" (RPG). It provided numerical values for RPGs
for the whole body and certain organs of radiation workers,
and for the whole body of individuals in the general population
as well as average population gonadal dose.
