[Federal Register Volume 73, Number 166 (Tuesday, August 26, 2008)]
[Notices]
[Page 50330]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E8-19732]


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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 [email protected].

    Dated: August 5, 2008.
Christine M. Branche,
Acting Director, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health.
 [FR Doc. E8-19732 Filed 8-25-08; 8:45 am]
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