Radiation Protection Programs

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DEP's Bureau of Radiation Protection directs the statewide radiation protection program with the goal of protecting the citizens of the Commonwealth from unnecessary exposure to radiation. This includes policy, technical, and fiscal management for the program areas of: radioactive material, radiation producing machines, radon, nuclear safety, low-level radioactive waste, emergency response, and decommissioning and environmental surveillance. The office ensures central and regional staff communicate uniformly and implement and effectively support statewide program activities such as licensing, registration, certification and inspections.

For inquiries related to radioactive material and radiation-producing machines, please use our new resource account RA-EPRPControl@pa.gov.

For inquiries related to radioactive materials licensing actions regarding Pennsylvania specific and general licenses, please use our new resource account RA-EPRPControl@pa.gov.

For inquiries related to radioactive materials licensing actions regarding Pennsylvania Reciprocity licenses, these submissions can be directed to our resource account at RA-EPRAMRECIPROCITY@pa.gov.

The following subject line TAGS will better serve to route your question(s) to the appropriate staff.

RECIPROCITY Licensing – License #
RECIPROCITY New License – License #
RECIPROCITY License Amend – License #
RECIPROCITY License Term – License #
RECIPROCITY License Invoice – License #

For inquiries related to home testing for radon, please contact Denise Bleiler at 717-783-3594.

For inquiries related to radon certification, please contact Maria Coons at 717-783-3594.

For nuclear power plant or other radiological emergencies, please contact PEMA at 717-651-2001.

Please use our New Resource account listed below to ask many of your Radiation Protection questions.

RA-EPRPControl@pa.gov

For general inquiries related to radiation protection, please use the resource account RA-EPBRPEnvProt@pa.gov.

The following subject line TAGS will better serve to route your question(s) to the appropriate staff.

XR Invoice – Registration #
XR Certificates – Registration #
XR New Registration –
XR Registration Update-Registration #
XR Terminations – Registration #
XR Account Changes – Registration #

Accelerator Licenses/ Amendment – License #

RAM Licensing – License #
RAM New License –
RAM License Amend – License #
RAM License Term – License #
RAM License Transfer of Control – License #
RAM License Invoice – License #

Incident or Event Notification – Registration / License # This is for backup purposes only. Please call first during an incident or event.
General –
Regulation Question – Registration/License #
Vendor – Registration #