[Federal Register Volume 71, Number 236 (Friday, December 8, 2006)]
[Notices]
[Page 71175]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 06-9588]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention


Designation of a Class of Employees for Addition to the Special 
Exposure Cohort

AGENCY: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Department of 
Health and Human Services (HHS).

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) gives notice 
of a decision to designate a class of employees at the Oak Ridge 
Thermal Diffusion Plant (S-50), Oak Ridge, Tennessee, as an addition to 
the Special Exposure Cohort (SEC) under the Energy Employees 
Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act of 2000. On November 9, 
2006, the Secretary of HHS designated the following class of employees 
as an addition to the SEC:

    Employees of the Department of Energy predecessor agencies and 
their contractors and subcontractors who were monitored or should 
have been monitored while working at the S-50 Oak Ridge Thermal 
Diffusion Plant working for a number of work days aggregating at 
least 250 work day during the period from July 9, 1944, through 
December 31, 1951, or in combination with work days within the 
parameters established for one or more other classes of employees in 
the SEC.

    This designation will become effective on December 9, 2006, unless 
Congress provides otherwise prior to the effective date. After this 
effective date, HHS will publish a notice in the Federal Register 
reporting the addition of this class to the SEC or the result of any 
provision by Congress regarding the decision by HHS to add the class to 
the SEC.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Larry Elliott, Director, Office of 
Compensation Analysis and Support, National Institute for Occupational 
Safety and Health, 4676 Columbia Parkway, MS C-46, Cincinnati, OH 
45226, Telephone 513-533-6800 (this is not a toll-free number). 
Information requests can be submitted by e-mail to [email protected].

    Dated: November 30, 2006.
John Howard,
Director, National Institute for Occupational, Safety and Health, 
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
[FR Doc. 06-9588 Filed 12-7-06; 8:45 am]
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