[Federal Register Volume 74, Number 214 (Friday, November 6, 2009)]
[Notices]
[Page 57491]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E9-26843]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Update to the Report on Residual Radioactive and Beryllium
Contamination at Atomic Weapons Employer Facilities and Beryllium
Vendor Facilities
AGENCY: National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH),
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: HHS gives notice of the release of an update to The Report on
Residual Radioactive and Beryllium Contamination at Atomic Weapons
Employer Facilities and Beryllium Vendor Facilities under the Energy
Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act of 2000
(EEOICPA), 42 U.S.C. 7484-7385.
This update is the third revision to the original report. The
original report was issued in November, 2002; the first update was
issued in October, 2003; and the second update was issued in December,
2006. The purpose of the original report and subsequent updates is to
evaluate whether significant residual contamination remained at atomic
weapons employer or beryllium vendor facilities after such facilities
had concluded work for the Department of Energy (DOE) or its
predecessor agencies.
NIOSH was required to submit the original report by section 3151(b)
of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2002, Public
Law 107-107 (December 18, 2001), which amended EEOICPA. EEOICPA was
amended again in section 3169 of the National Defense Authorization Act
of Fiscal Year 2005, Public Law 108-375 (October 28, 2004) which
directed NIOSH to update the residual contamination report by December,
2006.
This third revision to the original report has been prepared
because the determination of residual contamination for several sites
has changed since the issuance of the December 2006 version of the
report. Specifically, this updated report is being submitted due to
several recent changes in facility designations by DOE and the
Department of Labor, and due to new information for certain facilities
that was acquired and evaluated since the issuance of the December 2006
version of the report.
DOE uses the designations in this report to modify its publicly
available list of EEOICPA-covered facilities, which includes the time
periods determined by DOL to be covered under EEOICPA.
The entire report can be viewed on the Office of Compensation and
Analysis Support Web site at http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/ocas/.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Stuart L. Hinnefeld, Interim Director,
Office of Compensation Analysis and Support, National Institute for
Occupational Safety and Health, 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
[email protected].
John Howard,
Director, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health.
[FR Doc. E9-26843 Filed 11-5-09; 8:45 am]
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