PROGRAM OBJECTIVES:
To assist States in achieving, maintaining, and improving their capabilities to conduct radiation control programs. This will assure that State programs established through agreements with NRC for transfer of certain NRC regulatory authority over atomic energy materials to the States will continue to be adequate to protect health and safety and be compatible with NRC's regulatory program.

ELIGIBLE FUNCTIONAL CATEGORIES:
1. EDUCATION;
- Nuclear Education and Training;
2. EMPLOYMENT, LABOR, AND TRAINING;
- Planning, Research, and Demonstration;
- Job Training, Employment;
3. ENERGY;
- Education and Training;
4. ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY;
- Radiation Control;
5. HEALTH;
- Libraries, Information and Education Services;
- Occupational Safety and Health;
6. INFORMATION AND STATISTICS;
- General;

WHO CAN BENEFIT FROM THIS PROGRAM:
- State;
- Local;
- Student/Trainee;

WHO CAN APPLY:
- State (includes District of Columbia, public institutions of higher education and hospitals);
- Local (includes State-designated Indian Tribes, excludes institutions of higher education and hospitals);