[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 150 (Monday, August 5, 2019)]
[Notices]
[Page 38031]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2019-16602]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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),
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Department of Health and
Human Services (HHS).
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: HHS gives notice concerning the final effect of the HHS
decision to designate a class of employees from the Idaho National
Laboratory in Scoville, Idaho, as an addition to the Special Exposure
Cohort (SEC) under the Energy Employees Occupational Illness
Compensation Program Act of 2000.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: The Division of Compensation Analysis
and Support, NIOSH, 1090 Tusculum Avenue, MS C-46, Cincinnati, OH
45226-1938, Telephone 513-533-6800. Information requests can also be
submitted by email to [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On June 21, 2019, as provided for under 42
U.S.C. 7384l(14)(C), the Secretary of HHS designated the following
class of employees as an addition to the SEC:
All employees of the Department of Energy, its predecessor
agencies, and their contractors and subcontractors who worked at the
Idaho National Laboratory (INL) in Scoville, Idaho, and who were
monitored for external radiation at the Idaho Chemical Processing
Plant (CPP) (e.g., at least one film badge or TLD dosimeter from
CPP) between January 1, 1963, and February 28, 1970, for a number of
work days aggregating at least 250 work days, occurring either
solely under this employment, or in combination with work days
within the parameters established for one or more other classes of
employees in the Special Exposure Cohort.
This designation became effective on July 21, 2019. Therefore,
beginning on July 21, 2019, members of this class of employees, defined
as reported in this notice, became members of the SEC.
Authority: 42 U.S.C. 7384q(b). 42 U.S.C. 7384l(14)(C).
John J. Howard,
Director, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health.
[FR Doc. 2019-16602 Filed 8-2-19; 8:45 am]
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