State Agency Program Reports to the Texas Radiation Advisory ...

copy of all records related to ten specific inspections completed during the contract year. Thereviewer’s preliminary response regarding those ten inspections indicates no major issueswith the data or our compliance with the FDA’s inspection procedures.• A total of 1,509 remote inspections were issued for FY10. One thousand ninety-four of thosehave been completed and closed. The program is currently waiting on responses from theremaining 415 registrants.X-ray Inspections Group• The X-ray Group has two vacancies for X-ray Inspector positions; one in Houston and one inArlington. Interviewing and hiring are expected to take place during November. Presently,we have one inspector working out of the Austin office who is still in training.• During the 2010 Regulatory Conference held in Austin on September 2–3, 2010, a specialsession for service companies and assemblers of X-ray equipment was held. The session waswell attended with good feedback.Environmental Monitoring GroupIncident Investigation Program• On September 20, 2010, the Agency received a phone call from one of our licensees thattheir radiography crew in Orange had been approached by an individual who first identifiedhimself by name as an agency inspector with the State of Texas and a few minutes later saidhe was the Radiation Safety Officer for the City of Orange. The individual approached theradiation barrier marker but did not attempt to cross it (the crew had not started testing yet).He was hostile in his words and actions, and the crew was suspicious. He asked one of theradiographers for his state card. In response, the radiographer asked for the individual’s credentials.The individual told him he didn’t need to see them. While the other radiographerwas contacting the licensee’s office by phone, the individual left the site on a bicycle. Locallaw enforcement was not called at the time of the incident because the radiographers did notfeel the security of the source was being compromised. The licensee had an idea who the individualmight be and, during investigation, the radiographers identified the individual from aphoto the Agency provided. The individual had worked for the licensee approximately tenyears prior. The individual is a certified radiographer and has been for over 25 years. TheAgency has contacted the Criminal Investigations’ Unit of the of the Orange County Sheriff’sOffice. Agency legal counsel has been contacted to determine an appropriate course ofaction.South Texas Project (STP)• A Federal Emergency Management Agency- (FEMA-) evaluated exercise is scheduled forOctober 27, 2010. The exercise is designed to test STP, local, and State jurisdictions’ responseto a scenario involving a release of radioactive fission products from a nuclear reactor.FEMA will evaluate the offsite activities in response to the scenario-driven events.