Illinois Emergency Management Agency Illinois Radon Program Updates Illinois Radon Stakeholders Meeting March 4, 2016 Melinda Lewis

Illinois Emergency Management Agency Licensing Program Updates General Announcements/ Clarifications Education/ Outreach Program Illinois Radon Program Review

Illinois Emergency Management Agency Measurement Professional – 194 Measurement Technician – 134 Mitigation Professional – 78 Mitigation Technician – 52 Laboratory Analysis – 22 Total Licensees – 480 (+25) Licensing Program Updates

Illinois Emergency Management Agency Licensing Program Updates

Illinois Emergency Management Agency Announcements/ Clarifications Annual Data Submission Format Using the codes/ symbols provided to you is IMPORTANT!!

Illinois Emergency Management Agency Announcements/ Clarifications Annual Data Submission Format 200+ variations of B, C, S, or O for Location 188 pages of different pages of ‘room use’ identifiers 20 pages of ‘Location Other Description’ 217,067 measurements in original data set and 172,978 were able to be used Had to throw out 44,089 (20%) measurements from data set just because we could not decipher what type of foundation the measurement was taken with

Illinois Emergency Management Agency Announcements/ Clarifications Duplicate & Cross Check Clarification ALL devices approved for use in Illinois for radon measurement require 10% field duplicates Continuous Radon Monitors require bi-annual cross checks and do not count as duplicates 1 st – When you receive from lab after calibration 2 nd – Approx. 6 months after calibration

Illinois Emergency Management Agency Accuracy Precision Bias Announcements/ Clarifications Measurements are all very close to each other Measurements are close together and trend towards the true value Trend across measurement system of tendency to lean one way of the true value GOOD precision + GOOD bias = ACCURACY Accuracy is what we care about!!!! You have to measure and track the 2 components to ensure the radon measurement results provided to clients are accurate.

Illinois Emergency Management Agency Announcements/ Clarifications Duplicate & Cross Check Clarification DUPLICATES QA Check on PRECISION Side by side measurement placed RANDOMLY throughout the system IN THE FIELD It does not matter that we do not know the radon level prior to the measurement. We are checking to make sure they are reading levels close to each other (precision). CROSS CHECKS (or spikes...) QA Check on BIAS Side by side measurement placed at SPECIFIC TIMES (1st- when back from cal; 2nd- 6 months post cal) in a KNOWN RN LEVEL, CONSISTENT LOCATION (your office, home, etc.) It doesn’t matter that we know what the Rn level is. We are checking to see how close they measure to the known level and/or if the machine is BIAS toward either direction (i.e. too high, too low)

Illinois Emergency Management Agency Announcements/ Clarifications Daycare Variances…. 3 Years Later Daycare testing requirement is almost 3 years old! – Daycares will be needing another test to renew their DCFS licenses If you are re-testing a daycare requiring a variance that you tested the first time around, a second variance is not required if the rooms to be tested have not changed (additions OR dropped).

Illinois Emergency Management Agency Announcements/ Clarifications Termination/ Retirement of License Annual license period is May 1 – April 30 of each year – This is what you pay for with your annual bill If you wish to terminate license, your notification must be received in IEMA office by April 30 or you will be held liable for paying the annual fee

Illinois Emergency Management Agency Education/ Outreach Programs 2016 Radon Poster & Video Contests Judging event March 30, 2016 in Springfield, IL – Do you want to help judge? Let Stephanie, Melinda or Vera know! 1 st Place 2 nd Place 3 rd Place

Illinois Emergency Management Agency Questions? Melinda Lewis (217)