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7 AAC 18.105. Applicability of 7 AAC 18.110 — 7 AAC 18.990 7 AAC 18.110. Registration requirement 7 AAC 18.115. Registration procedure 7 AAC 18.120. Authorization to operate 7 AAC 18.125. Exemptions 7 AAC 18.130. Vendor registration; notice of transfer 7 AAC 18.140. Radiation sources from out of state 7 AAC 18.150. Maintenance of records 7 AAC 18.160. Approval not implied 7 AAC 18.170. Inspections 7 AAC 18.180. Protection requirements Editor’s note: As of Register 190, July 2009, the regulations contained in 7 AAC 18.105 — 7 AAC 18.990 became effective simultaneously with the repeal of regulations of the Department of Environmental Conservation that contained the basic substance of 7 AAC 18.105 — 7 AAC 18.990 and appeared in 18 AAC 85.010 — 18 AAC 85.200, 18 AAC 85.220 — 18 AAC 85.270, 18 AAC 85.330 — 18 AAC 85.660, and 18 AAC 85.740 — 18 AAC 85.780, 18 AAC 85.010 — 18 AAC 85.200, 18 AAC 85.220 — 18 AAC 85.270, 18 AAC 85.330 — 18 AAC 85.660, and 18 AAC 85.740 — 18 AAC 85.780. During the relocation of the regulations to 7 AAC 18, the Department of Health and Social Services (now the Department of Health) made necessary technical and substantive changes to the regulations. 7 AAC 18.105. Applicability of 7 AAC 18.110 — 7 AAC 18.990. (a) Except as otherwise specified in AS 18.60.525, the provisions of 7 AAC 18.110 — 7 AAC 18.990 apply to a person in this state who receives, possesses, uses, transfers, owns, or acquires a radiation source. (b) The provisions of 7 AAC 18.110 — 7 AAC 18.990 may not be construed to limit the dose of radiation that is intentionally applied to a patient for healthcare purposes by, or under the direction of, a practitioner of the healing arts licensed in this state, except that

(1) registrants and operators shall apply the principles of ALARA (as low as is reasonably achievable) to ensure that patients are exposed to the lowest amount of ionizing radiation necessary to obtain the clinically intended result; and

(2) in the course of intentionally applying radiation to a patient for healthcare purposes, operators and registrants shall ensure that exposures to the general public do not exceed the limits specified in 7 AAC 18.240. (c) Notwithstanding the minimum requirements and the permissible levels of ionizing radiation exposures established in 7 AAC 18.110 — 7 AAC 18.990, registrants and operators shall apply the principles of ALARA to ensure that registrants, operators, and the general public are exposed only to the lowest amount of ionizing radiation necessary to accomplish an intended purpose. (d) For the purposes of 7 AAC 18.110 — 7 AAC 18.990, the principles of ALARA means