[Federal Register Volume 71, Number 248 (Wednesday, December 27, 2006)]
[Notices]
[Pages 77757-77758]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 06-9876]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES


National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health; Final 
Effect of Designation of a Class of Employees for Addition to the 
Special Exposure Cohort

AGENCY: National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), 
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) gives notice 
concerning the final effect of the HHS decision to designate a class of 
employees at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New 
Mexico, as an addition to the Special Exposure Cohort (SEC) under the 
Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act of 2000. 
On November 9, 2006, as provided for under 42 U.S.C. 7834q(b), 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 or subcontractors who were monitored or should have been 
monitored for exposure to ionizing radiation associated with 
radioactive lanthanum (RaLa) operations at Technical Area 10 (Bayo 
Canyon Site), Technical Area 35 (Ten Site), and Buildings H, Sigma, 
and U (located within Technical Area 1) at the Alamos National 
Laboratory (LANL) for a number of work days aggregating at least 250 
work days during the period from September 1, 1944 through July 18, 
1963, or in combination with work days within the parameters 
established for one or more other classes of employees in the SEC.

    This designation became effective on December 9, 2006, as provided 
for under 42 U.S.C. 7834l(14)(C). Hence, beginning on December 9, 2006, 
members of this class of employees, defined as reported in this notice, 
became members of the Special Exposure Cohort.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Larry Ellicott, Director, Office of 
Compensation Analysis and Support, National Institute for Occupational 
Safety and Health (NIOSH), 4676 Columbia Parkway, MS C-46, Cincinnati, 
OH 45226, Telephone 513-533-6800 (this is not a toll-free number). 
Information requests can also

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be submitted by e-mail to [email protected].

John Howard,
Director, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health.
[FR Doc. 06-9876 Filed 12-26-06; 8:45 am]
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