---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 10007"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "10007"
heading: "Federal radiation guidelines"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/10007"
units:
  - "Chapter 107 — Consumer-Patient Radiation Health and Safety"
---

# §10007. Federal radiation guidelines


The [Secretary](/usc/42/10003.md?p=6) shall, in conjunction with the [Radiation](/usc/42/10003.md?p=1) Policy Council, the [Secretary](/usc/42/10003.md?p=6) of Veterans Affairs, the [Administrator](/usc/42/4005.md?p=1) of the Environmental Protection [Agency](/usc/42/8262.md?p=1), appropriate [agencies](/usc/42/8262.md?p=1) of the [States](/usc/42/10003.md?p=7), and appropriate professional organizations, promulgate Federal [radiation](/usc/42/10003.md?p=1) guidelines with respect to [radiologic procedures](/usc/42/10003.md?p=2). Such guidelines shall—

- (1) determine the level of [radiation](/usc/42/10003.md?p=1) exposure due to [radiologic procedures](/usc/42/10003.md?p=2) which is unnecessary and specify the techniques, procedures, and methods to minimize such unnecessary exposure;
- (2) provide for the elimination of the need for retakes of diagnostic [radiologic procedures](/usc/42/10003.md?p=2);
- (3) provide for the elimination of unproductive screening programs;
- (4) provide for the optimum diagnostic information with minimum radiologic exposure; and
- (5) include the therapeutic application of [radiation](/usc/42/10003.md?p=1) to individuals in the [treatment](/usc/42/11851.md?p=11) of disease, including nuclear medicine applications.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 97–35, title IX, § 982, Aug. 13, 1981, 95 Stat. 601; Pub. L. 102–54, § 13(q)(13)(B), June 13, 1991, 105 Stat. 281.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1991—Pub. L. 102–54 substituted “Secretary of Veterans Affairs” for “Administrator of Veterans’ Affairs” in introductory provisions.