Gary Forsee

Chief, Radioactive Materials Division at Illinois Emergency Management Agency

Speaker

Gary Forsee is a Health Physicist with the Illinois Emergency Management Agency’s Radioactive Materials Program. In his tenure with the State of Illinois, he has worked in areas of environmental monitoring, site decommissioning, low-level radioactive waste, radiological emergency response, radioactive materials transportation and security, nuclear safety, as well as technologically enhanced naturally occurring radioactive material (TENORM) regulatory program development and implementation. In his current capacity, he manages the inspection and enforcement of radioactive material licensees and oversees radiological emergency response operations. Since 2012, he has chaired the Conference of Radiation Control Program Directors (CRCPD)’s Part N committee, revising draft regulations for the licensure of TENORM. He is a contributing author to various TENORM publications and often a guest speaker at industry and stakeholder forums concerning worker protection, waste handling, and regulatory approaches for TENORM. He has worked on public dose assessment and regulatory issues concerning TENORM in drinking water and resulting wastes since 2004; developing guidance, implementing regulatory programs, and employing modeling software to support regulatory decision making.

He served as a consultant to the International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna, on the development of regulatory frameworks for TENORM and continues to participate in regulatory forums internationally to refine NORM guidance.