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Site Profile
- Site Profile for Atomic Weapons Employers that Worked Uranium and Thorium Metals
(Approved December 13, 2006)
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About this Document: This document provides an exposure matrix for workers at AWE facilities that performed metal-working operations with uranium metal. Over 110 facilities performed these operations, and this document intends to provide guidance for dose reconstruction at any of these facilities. The main body of this document, in Sections 2-6, includes general discussions of operations and exposure conditions at these facilities. Following the main body of this document is a collection of appendices, with one appendix for each AWE site that performed metal-working operations. Each appendix contains site-specific information that can be used for dose reconstruction. For those sites where this information is insufficient or totally lacking, the dose reconstructor must use information in the main body of the Site Profile.
Appendices:
Appendix BB -- General Steel Industries
(Approved June 25, 2007)
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Program Evaluation Reports (PERs) and Program Evaluation Plans (PEPs)
NIOSH is committed to applying the best available science in dose reconstructions. In keeping with this commitment, completed cases with probabilities of causation less than 50% are reviewed as relevant new information becomes available. The results of these reviews are described in a Program Evaluation Report (PER). The PER details the effect, if any, of the new information on the completed dose reconstruction. If it appears that the compensability of a completed dose reconstruction may be effected, NIOSH is committed to working with the Department of Labor to reopen and rework the dose reconstruction, as appropriate.
- PER
24 : General Steel Industries TBD Approval
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Document Number: OCAS-PER-0024 Rev-00
About this Document: New document to determine which
previously completed claims require
evaluation for the effect of approving a
GSI TBD.
Approved: September 25, 2007
Summary: There were 4 General Steel Industries claims completed with a probability of causation below 50% prior to the approval of the TBD. These were completed using ORAUT-OTIB-0004. Since the new document describes a higher dose for some of the dose estimate, it is necessary to revise these dose estimates to determine the effect. NIOSH is requesting that these claims be returned for a new dose estimate. A new dose reconstruction will be completed for each of the claims using the latest revision to the General Steel Industries TBD.
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Worker Outreach Activities
Based on a recommendation from the Advisory Board to provide workers and site experts with opportunities to participate in developing the technical documents used in dose reconstruction, NIOSH established a Worker Outreach Program.
At Worker Outreach Meetings, current and former DOE and AWE employees have opportunities to obtain information about Site Profiles, Technical Basis Documents, and Technical Information Bulletins, and to provide information for consideration and possible use in dose reconstruction. This process is valuable to ensure that the technical documents used in dose reconstruction contain correct and useful information.
Below are the Worker Outreach Activities for AWE Site Wide Documents:
- October 9, 2007
Town Hall Meeting for General Steel Industries, Inc.
Meeting with former workers from General Steel Industries, Inc., and other interested parties in Collinsville, Illinois
Minutes
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- August 21-22, 2006
General Steel Industries Worker Outreach Meeting in Collinsville, Illinois
Note: This meeting was not sponsored by NIOSH.
Transcript from August 21, 2006
PDF 1.6 MB (62 pages)
Transcript from August 22, 2006
PDF 1.3 MB (50 pages)
- August 11, 2006
General Steel Industries Affidavit Testimony meeting held in East Alton, Illinois
Note: This meeting was not sponsored by NIOSH.
Transcript
PDF 1.9 MB (171 pages)
- July 7, 2006
General Steel Industries Affidavit Testimony meeting held in East Alton, Illinois
Note: This meeting was not sponsored by NIOSH.
Transcript
PDF 3.3 MB (299 pages)
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Work Group on TBD 6000/6001, Appendix BB
This Work Group is responsible for the review of the specified TBDs as well as the appendices that apply to specific work sites. They will also review any reports developed by the Board's contractor (SC&A) pertaining to these TBDs and the appendices, and will assist NIOSH and SC&A in resolving issues that arise through the review process. The initial focus of the Work Group will be on appenidix BB of TBD 6000, dealing with General Steel Industries. The Work Group will make recommendations to the Board in cases where appendices involve sites with SEC petitions.
Paul Ziemer-Chair
Josie Beach
Mark Griffon
John Poston
Wanda Munn--Alternate
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Comments on GSI Documents
How to Submit Comments
Comments on AWE Site Wide documents can be submitted to the NIOSH Docket Officer electronically by e-mail at NIOCINDOCKET@cdc.gov or printed comments can be mailed to NIOSH Docket Office, Robert A. Taft Laboratories, MS-C34, 4676 Columbia Parkway, Cincinnati, OH 45226. Please include the Site Profile Number (020) on all comments.
Comments Received
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Special Exposure Cohort Petition Information for GSI
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Page last updated: October 9, 2008
Page last reviewed: May 30, 2008
Content Source: National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
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