[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 122 (Friday, June 24, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Page 37115]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-15833]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES


Determination Concerning a Petition To Add a Class of Employees 
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: HHS gives notice of a determination concerning a petition to 
add a class of employees from the Bliss & Laughlin Steel Company 
located at 110 Hopkins Street, Buffalo, New York, to the Special 
Exposure Cohort (SEC) under the Energy Employees Occupational Illness 
Compensation Program Act of 2000 (EEOICPA), 42 U.S.C. 7384q. On June 3, 
2011, the Secretary of HHS determined that the following class of 
employees does not meet the statutory criteria for addition to the SEC 
as authorized under EEOICPA:

    All Atomic Weapons Employees who worked at the Bliss & Laughlin 
Steel Company located at 110 Hopkins Street, Buffalo, New York, for 
the period from January 1, 1951, through December 31, 1952, and/or 
during the residual period from January 1, 1953, through December 
31, 1998.


FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Stuart L. Hinnefeld, Director, 
Division of Compensation Analysis and Support, National Institute for 
Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), 4676 Columbia Parkway, MS C-46, 
Cincinnati, OH 45226, Telephone 1-877-222-7570. Information requests 
can also be submitted by e-mail to [email protected].

John Howard,
Director, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health.
[FR Doc. 2011-15833 Filed 6-23-11; 8:45 am]
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