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Foreword
The Joint Subcommittee of American National Standards Committees N13 and N42, which was responsible for the development of this standard, was established by authority of the Chairmen of American National Standards Committees N13 and N42 to represent the interests of the respective parent committees. The Joint Subcommittee comprises 50 percent manufacturer and 50 percent user membership; thus this standard includes the additional feature of incorporating the experience of both the manufacturer and the user.
The American National Standards Committee on Radiation Protection, N13, which, together with the American National Standards Committee on Instrumentation, N42, reviewed and approved this standard, had the following membership at the time of approval:
M. E. Wrenn, Chair
James E. Sohngen, Secretary
Organization Represented
Name of Representative
American Chemical Society
Ira B. Whitney
American Conference of Governmental IndustrialHygienists
D.E. Van Farrowe
American Industrial Hygiene Association
H. Wilbur Speicher
American Insurance Association
Karl H. Carlson
American Mutual Insurance Alliance
William J. Uber
American Nuclear Society
James E. McLaughlin
American Public Health Association
Simon Kinsman
Gerald S. Parker (Alt)
American Society for Testing and Materials
L B. Gardner
J. H. Bystrom (Alt)
A. N.Tschaeche (Alt)
American Society of Mechanical Engineers
H.J. Larson
Association of State and Territorial Health Officers
Sherwood Davies Atomic Industrial Forum
James E. Sohngen
Electric Light and Power Group
Marvin Sullivan
Gordon A. Olson (Alt)
Environmental Protection Agency
David S, Smith
Health Physics Society
L. J. Cherubin
John J. Ferry (Alt)
Industrial Medical Association
William Doran, Jr
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
D.G. Pitcher
Institute of Nuclear Materials Management
Ken Okolowitz
Robert Budd (Alt)
International Association of Governmental Labor Officials
Jacqueline Messite
Phillip M. Bourland (Alt)
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
Paul R. Shoop
Manufacturing Chemists Association, Inc
P.W. McDaniel
Paul Estey (Alt)
National Bureau of Standards
Thomas P. Loftus
Thomas Hobbs (Alt)
National Safety Council
Hugh F. Henry
Julian B. Olishifski (Alt)
Harry Rapp (Alt)
Uranium Operators Association
L.W. Swent
R. T. Zitting (Alt)
US Atomic Energy Commission
Edward J. Vallario
Walter Cool (Alt)
US Bureau of Labor
John P. ONeill
US Public Health Service
Richard F. Boggs
Roger G. Bostrom (Alt)
Individual Members
William O. Chatfield
Donald C, Fleckenstein
Duncan A. Holaday
Remus G. McAllister
The American National Standards Committee on Instrumentation, N42, had the following membership at the time of approval:
L. Costrell, Chair
D.C. Cook, Secretary
American Chemical Society
L.P. Remsberg, Jr
American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists
J. Lieberman
American Industrial Hygiene Association
(Vacant)
American Nuclear Society
(Vacant)
American Society of Mechanical Engineers
R.C. Austin
American Society of Safety Engineers
(Vacant)
American Society for Testing and Materials
J.L. Kuranz
J. A. Dwyer (Alt)
Atomic Industrial Forum
W.J. Lepeska
Health Physics Society
J.B.H. Kuper
R. L. Butenhoff (Alt)
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
L. Costrell
L. H. Horn
L. Kornblith
J. J. Loving
J. Forster (Alt)
Instrument Society of America
(Vacant)
SEDEC Electron Tube Council
(Vacant)
Manufacturing Chemists Association
M.C. Mason
National Electrical Manufacturers Association
J.F. Connelly Oak Ridge National Laboratory
F. Manning
Scientific Apparatus Makers Association
W.H. Howe
Underwriters Laboratories
L.H. Horn
R. E. Dufour (Alt)
US Atomic Energy Commission
Division of Biology and Medicine
H.R. Wasson Division of Reactor Development and Technology
C. Povet
US Department of the Army Materiel Command
A.E. Cohen
Office of Secretary of Army Office of Civil Defense
C.R. Siebentritt, Jr
US Department of Commerce National Bureau of Standards
L. Costrell
US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare — Public Health Service
H.J.L. Rechen
R. Peterson (Alt)
US Naval Research Laboratory
D. C, Cook
Members-at-Large
O.W. Bilharz
S. H. Hanauer
W. C. Lipinski
R. F. Shea
E. J. Vallario
The Joint Subcommittee N13/42, which was responsible for developing this standard, had the following membership at the time of approval:
Edward J. Vallario, Cochairman (N13)
Joseph Bellian, Cochairman (N42)
E. Bemis
V. T. Chilson
A. Cohen
John Dempsey
E. E. Goodale
J. D. Henderson
R. L. Kathren
W. R. Klein
T. P. Loftus
H. W. Patterson
H. J. L. Rechen
C. R. Siebentritt. Jr
H. R. Wasson
The drafting committee, Task Group B, had the following membership at the time of approval:
J. G. Bellian
V. T. Chilson (consultant)
A. Cohen
J. D. Henderson
A. P. Hull (consultant)
R. L. Kathren
L. R. Kueberth (consultant)
J. M. Selby
E. J. Vallario
Scope
This standard provides recommendations for the selection of instrumentation specific to the continuous monitoring and quantification of radioactivity in effluents released to the environment. The effluent streams considered may contain radioactive gases, liquids, particulates, or dissolved solids singly or in combination. This standard specifies detection capabilities, physical and operating limits, reliability, and calibration requirements and sets forth minimum performance requirements for effluent monitoring instrumentation. Unless otherwise specified, the criteria herein refer to the total system. This standard applies only to monitoring during routine operation that includes abnormal releases. Emergency situations, where additional performance capability will be required, are a matter of separate consideration.
Also outside the scope of this standard are sample extraction and laboratory analyses, normally used for intercomparison between monitor calibrations and laboratory analyses, and other applications for continuous monitoring instrumentation such as environmental monitoring or process control. Sampling techniques are covered in ANSI N13.1-1969, Guide to Sampling Airborne Radioactive Materials in Nuclear Facilities.