NRC ORDER – CPORDER $7,000

On August 4, 2015, the NRC issued an Order Imposing Civil Monetary Penalty in the amount of $7,000 to a medical licensee, Bradley D. Bastow, D.O. (licensee). On November 6, 2014, the NRC issued a Notice of Violation and Proposed Imposition of Civil Penalty in the amount of $7,000 to the licensee for a Severity Level III Problem involving failure to meet the terms of a Confirmatory Order (ML13241A320) issued on September 3, 2013, as part of an alternative dispute resolution mediation settlement agreement to resolve issues discovered during an inspection and an investigation conducted by the NRC Office of Investigations. In April 2014, the NRC performed a follow-up inspection and determined that the licensee either did not meet the terms of the Confirmatory Order or did not meet them in the time specified by the Order. Of particular concern was the failure to restore compliance to one of the initial violations that formed the basis of the Confirmatory Order (i.e., – providing a calibrated and operable well counter or submitting a license amendment request for alternate instrumentation). Not having this instrumentation has a direct health and safety impact on the licensee’s staff and patients in that, without the instrumentation, the licensee staff are not able to provide accurate contamination readings.