---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 C.F.R. § 835.1301"
title: "10"
number: "835.1301"
heading: "General provisions."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/10/835.1301"
---

# §835.1301. General provisions.

- (a) A general employee whose occupational dose has exceeded the numerical value of any of the limits specified in [§ 835.202](/cfr/10/835.202.md) as a result of an authorized emergency exposure may be permitted to return to work in radiological areas during the current year providing that all of the following conditions are met:
  - (1) Approval is first obtained from the contractor management and the Head of the responsible DOE field organization;
  - (2) The individual receives counseling from radiological protection and medical personnel regarding the consequences of receiving additional occupational exposure during the year; and
  - (3) **The affected employee agrees to return to radiological work.**
- (b) All doses exceeding the limits specified in [§ 835.202](/cfr/10/835.202.md) shall be recorded in the affected individual's occupational dose record.
- (c) When the conditions under which a dose was received in excess of the limits specified in [§ 835.202](/cfr/10/835.202.md), except those received in accordance with [§ 835.204](/cfr/10/835.204.md), have been eliminated, operating management shall notify the Head of the responsible DOE field organization.
- (d) Operations which have been suspended as a result of a dose in excess of the limits specified in [§ 835.202](/cfr/10/835.202.md), except those received in accordance with [§ 835.204](/cfr/10/835.204.md), may be resumed only with the approval of DOE.

## Notes

### Amendments

[58 FR 65485, Dec. 14, 1993, as amended at 63 FR 59687, Nov. 4, 1998; 72 FR 31927, June 8, 2007]

### Authority

Authority: 42 U.S.C. 2201, 7191; 50 U.S.C. 2410.

### Source

Source: 58 FR 65485, Dec. 14, 1993, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[58 FR 65485, Dec. 14, 1993, as amended at 63 FR 59687, Nov. 4, 1998; 72 FR 31927, June 8, 2007]