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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES



 
National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health; 

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: The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) gives notice 

of a determination concerning a petition to add a class of employees at 

the Sandia National Laboratory--Livermore, Livermore, California, to 

the Special Exposure Cohort (SEC) under the Energy Employees 

Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act of 2000 (EEOICPA), 42 

U.S.C. 7384q. On July 29, 2008, the Secretary of HHS determined that 

the following employees do not meet the statutory criteria for addition 

to the SEC as authorized under EEOICPA:



    Department of Energy employees or its contractor or 

subcontractor employees who worked as x-ray technologists and 

materials scientists at Sandia National Laboratory--Livermore in the 

X-ray Diffraction and Fluorescence Laboratory, Building 913--Room 

113 and Building 913--Room 128 from December 1, 1967 through 

December 31, 1990.





FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Larry Elliott, 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 1-800-CDC-INFO (1-800-232-4636) or directly at 1-

513-533-6800 (this is not a toll-free number). Information requests can 

also be submitted by e-mail to OCAS@CDC.GOV.



    Dated: August 5, 2008.

Christine M. Branche,

Acting Director, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health.

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