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    <CFRTITLE>20</CFRTITLE>
    <CFRTITLETEXT>Employees' Benefits</CFRTITLETEXT>
    <VOL>1</VOL>
    <DATE>2002-04-01</DATE>
    <ORIGINALDATE>2002-04-01</ORIGINALDATE>
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    <TITLE>What functions are assigned to OWCP?</TITLE>
    <GRANULENUM>1.2</GRANULENUM>
    <HEADING>Section 1.2</HEADING>
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      <PARENT HEADING="Title 20" SEQ="3">Employees' Benefits</PARENT>
      <PARENT HEADING="CHAPTER I" SEQ="2">OFFICE OF WORKERS' COMPENSATION PROGRAMS, DEPARTMENT OF LABOR</PARENT>
      <PARENT HEADING="SUBCHAPTER A" SEQ="1">ORGANIZATION AND PROCEDURES</PARENT>
      <PARENT HEADING="PART 1" SEQ="0">PERFORMANCE OF FUNCTIONS UNDER THIS CHAPTER</PARENT>
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    <SECTNO>§ 1.2</SECTNO>
    <SUBJECT>What functions are assigned to OWCP?</SUBJECT>
    <P>The Assistant Secretary has delegated authority and assigned responsibility to the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Workers' Compensation Programs for the Department of Labor's programs under the following statutes:</P>

    <P>(a) The Federal Employees' Compensation Act, as amended and extended (5 U.S.C. 8101 <E T="03">et seq.</E>), except 5 U.S.C. 8149 as it pertains to the Employees' Compensation Appeals Board.</P>
    <P>(b) The War Hazards Compensation Act (42 U.S.C. 1701 <E T="03">et seq.</E>).</P>
    <P>(c) The War Claims Act (50 U.S.C. App. 2003).</P>
    <P>(d) The Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act, Title XXXVI of the Floyd D. Spence National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001, Pub. L. 106-398 (114 Stat. 1654, 1654A-1231), except activities, pursuant to Executive Order 13179 (“Providing Compensation to America's Nuclear Weapons Workers”) of December 7, 2000, assigned to the Secretary of Health and Human Services, the Secretary of Energy and the Attorney General.</P>

    <P>(e) The Longshore and Harbor Workers' Compensation Act, as amended and extended (33 U.S.C. 901 <E T="03">et seq.</E>), except: 33 U.S.C. 919(d) with respect to administrative law judges in the Office of Administrative Law Judges; 33 U.S.C. 921(b) as it pertains to the Benefits Review Board; and activities, pursuant to 33 U.S.C. 941, assigned to the Assistant Secretary for Occupational Safety and Health.</P>
    <P>(f) The Black Lung Benefits Act, as amended (30 U.S.C. 901 <E T="03">et seq.</E>).</P>
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