[Federal Register Volume 83, Number 18 (Friday, January 26, 2018)]
[Notices]
[Pages 3748-3749]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2018-01449]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
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: Stuart L. Hinnefeld, Director,
Division of Compensation Analysis and Support, NIOSH, 1090 Tusculum
Avenue, MS C-46, Cincinnati, OH 45226-1938, Telephone 877-222-7570.
Information requests can also be submitted by email to [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Authority: 42 U.S.C. 7384q(b). 42 U.S.C. 7384l(14)(C).
On November 22, 2017, as provided for under 42 U.S.C. 7384l(14)(C),
the Acting 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, 1975, and December 31, 1980, for a number of
work days aggregating at least 250 work days, occurring 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 December 22, 2017. Therefore,
beginning on December 22, 2017, members of this class of employees,
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defined as reported in this notice, became members of the SEC.
John Howard,
Director, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health.
[FR Doc. 2018-01449 Filed 1-25-18; 8:45 am]
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