2018-15094. Determination Concerning a Petition To Add a Class of Employees 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.

SUMMARY:

HHS gives notice of a determination concerning a petition to add a class of employees from the Feed Materials Production Center (FMPC), in Fernald, Ohio, to the Special Exposure Cohort (SEC) under the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act of 2000 (EEOICPA).

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Stuart L. Hinnefeld, Director, Division of Compensation Analysis and Support, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), 1090 Tusculum Avenue, MS C-46, Cincinnati, OH 45226-1938, Telephone [phone]. Information requests can also be submitted by email to [e-mail].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

On June 21, 2018, the Secretary of HHS determined that the following class of employees does not meet the statutory criteria for addition to the SEC as authorized under EEOICPA:

“(1) All employees of the Department of Energy (DOE), its predecessor agencies, and their contractors and subcontractors who worked in any area of the Feed Materials Production Center at Fernald, Ohio, from January 1, 1984, through December 31, 1989; and (2) all employees of the DOE, its predecessor agencies, National Lead of Ohio, or NLO, Inc., in any area of the Feed Materials Production Center from January 1, 1979, through December 31, 1983.”

Authority: 42 U.S.C.7384q.

John J. Howard,

Director, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health.