COMMITTEE ON

THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

NINETY-FIRST CONGRESS

FIRST SESSION

ON

H.R. 668

TO DIRECT THE COUNCIL OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
TO PRESCRIBE REGULATIONS TO CONTROL RADIATION IN
THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

APRIL 28, 1969

Printed for the use of the Committee on the District of Columbia

RADIATION CONTROL

MONDAY, APRIL 28, 1969

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,
SUBCOMMITTEE No. 2 OF THE

COMMITTEE ON THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA,

Washington, D.C.
The Subcommittee met, pursuant to notice, at 10:05 a.m., in Room
1310, Longworth Building, Honorable Charles C. Diggs, Jr., Chair-
man, presiding.

Present: Representative Diggs (Chairman), Fraser, Adams, Winn,
and Gude.

Also present: James T. Clark, Clerk; Hayden S. Garber, Counsel;
Sara Watson, Assistant Counsel; Donald Tubridy, Minority Clerk,
and Leonard O. Hilder, Investigator.

Mr. DIGGS. This morning, Subcommittee No. 2 of the Committee
on the District of Columbia, will obtain testimony from witnesses
with respect to H.R. 668, introduced by the gentleman from California,
Mr. Sisk, directing the D.C. Council to prescribe regulations to control
radiation.

H.R. 668 will appear in the record at this point.
(H.R. 668 follows:)

H.R. 668, 91st Cong., 1st Sess., by Mr. Sisk on January 2, 1969

A BILL To direct the Council of the District of Columbia to prescribe regulations to control radiation in
the District of Columbia, and for other purposes

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of
America in Congress assembled, That this Act may be cited as the "District of
Columbia Radiation Protection Act."

SEC. 2. For purposes of this Act-

(1) The term "Commissioner" means the Commissioner of the District of
Columbia.

(2) The term "Council" means the District of Columbia Council.

(3) The term "byproduct material" means any radioactive material (except
special nuclear material) yielded in, or made radioactive by exposure to the
radiation incident to, the process of producing or utilizing special nuclear material.
(4) The term "radiation" means any electromagnetic radiation, ionizing
radiation, and sound radiation which can be generated during the operation of
electronic products or devices.

(5) The term "ionizing radiation" means gamma rays and X-rays, alpha and
beta particles, high-speed electrons, neutrons, protons, and other nuclear particles;
but not sound or radio waves, or visible, infrared, or ultraviolet light.

(6) The term "person" does not include any agency, department, or instrumen-
tality of the Federal Government.

(7) The term "radioactive material" means any matrial, solid, liquid, or gas,
which emits ionizing radiation spontaneously.

(8) The term "source material" means (A) uraniun, thorium, or any other
material which the United States Atomic Energy Commission has determined
to be source material and which, after such determination, has been designated
by an order of the Commissioner to be source material, or (B) any ore (i) con-
taining any such material in a concentration which such Commission has deter-