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Question 112: A licensee authorizes a "planned special
exposure" in accordance with 10 CFR 20.1206 and the doses
to the involved individuals are fortuitously much lower
than anticipated. In retrospect, a planned special
exposure authorization was unnecessary. May the doses be
assigned as "routine" doses on the Form 5 rather than
recorded as planned special exposure doses?
Answer: No. Following a planned special exposure, the
individual doses must be recorded in accordance with 10 CFR
20.2105 (no matter how small) and may not be recorded as
routine doses on the Form 5. (References: 10 CFR 20.1206
and 20.2105).