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The Radiation Control Program is within the Division for Regulatory Services.
Radiation Control
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South Texas Project Electric Generating Station
Radiation Control's RoleThe Radiation Control Program has responsibility for environmental surveillance outside the plant boundaries and involvement in emergency response exercises. Before STPEGS could be licensed for start up and operation, a full-scale emergency response exercise had to be successfully staged. After start up, at periodic intervals, exercises must be performed to assure that public health and safety can be protected in the event of an emergency. Two government agencies, the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) determine if the emergency response exercise is successful. Nuclear power facilities are required to perform emergency response exercises at specific intervals: every year for the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission and every two years for the Federal Emergency Management Agency. What Radiation Control Does In
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