Decision to Evaluate a Petition to Designate a Class of Employees: Area IV of the Santa Susana Field Laboratory, to be included in the Special Exposure Cohort

Federal Register: December 10, 2009 (Volume 74, Number 236)

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Decision to Evaluate a Petition to Designate a Class of Employees of Area IV of the Santa Susana Field Laboratory, To Be Included in the

Special Exposure Cohort

AGENCY: National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH),

Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).

ACTION: Notice.

SUMMARY: HHS gives notice as required by 42 CFR 83.12(e) of a decision to evaluate a petition to designate a class of employees of Area IV of the Santa Susana Field Laboratory to be included in the Special

Exposure Cohort under the Energy Employees Occupational Illness

Compensation Program Act of 2000. The initial proposed definition for the class being evaluated, subject to revision as warranted by the evaluation, is as follows:

Facility: Santa Susana Field Laboratory.

Location: Area IV.

Job Titles and/or Job Duties: All employees of the Department of

Energy, its predecessor agencies, and their contractors and subcontractors who worked in any area.

Period of Employment: January 1, 1959 to December 31, 1964.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Stuart L. Hinnefeld, Interim 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 513-533-6800 (this is not a toll-free number). Information requests can also be submitted by e-mail to

OCAS@CDC.GOV.

John Howard,

Director, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health.

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