Radiation Control Act of 1979

[AI summary unavailable — showing source text] Radiation Control Act of 1979 - Gives the Environmental Protection Agency primary responsibility on behalf of the Federal government for: (1) compiling and assessing all available information on radiation from all sources, and disseminating the results to the public; (2) conducting and administering Federal or federally-supported radiation effects and assessment programs; (3) developing, issuing, and modifying regulations dealing with radiation exposure of the public and of workers; (4) monitoring, maintaining records of, and establishing allowable totals of radiation exposure; and (5) establishing an identifiable group to compile and analyze epidemiological information on the effects of radiation. Directs the Administrator of the Agency to: (1) establish the most likely statistical relation between a given exposure dose of each form of ionizing radiation and the consequent harmful effects therefrom; (2) exposure encountered for the public and for workers from each of specified sources; and (3) obtain the statistically expected effect upon the public and upon workers from each of individual types of sources within specified categories. Directs the Administrator to submit to Congres…