[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 28, Volume 2]
[Revised as of July 1, 2003]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 28CFR79.2]

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                    TITLE 28--JUDICIAL ADMINISTRATION
 
              CHAPTER I--DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE (Continued)
 
PART 79--CLAIMS UNDER THE RADIATION EXPOSURE COMPENSATION ACT--Table of Contents
 
                           Subpart A--General
 
Sec. 79.2  General definitions.

    (a) Act means the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act of 1990, 
Public Law 101-426, as amended by section 3139 of Public Law 101-510 and 
by the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act Amendments of 2000, Public 
Law 106-245 (see 42 U.S.C. 2210 note).
    (b) Child means a recognized natural child of the claimant, a 
stepchild who lived with the claimant in a regular parent-child 
relationship, or an adopted child of the claimant.
    (c) Claim means a petition for compensation under the Act filed with 
the Radiation Exposure Compensation Program by a claimant or by his or 
her eligible surviving beneficiary or beneficiaries.
    (d) Claimant means the individual, living or deceased, who is 
alleged to satisfy the criteria for compensation set forth either in 
section 4 or in section 5 of the Act.
    (e) Contemporaneous Record means any document created at or around 
the time of the event that is recorded in the document.
    (f) Eligible surviving beneficiary means a spouse, child, parent, 
grandchild or grandparent who is entitled under section 6(c)(4) (A) or 
(B) of the Act to file a claim or receive a payment on behalf of a 
deceased claimant.
    (g) Grandchild means a child of a child of the claimant.

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    (h) Grandparent means a parent of a parent of the claimant.
    (i) Immediate family member of a person means a spouse or child if 
the person is an adult, but if the person is a minor, immediate family 
member means either parent.
    (j) Indian tribe means any Indian tribe, band, nation, pueblo, or 
other organized group or community that is recognized as eligible for 
special programs and services provided by the United States to Indian 
tribes.
    (k) Medical document, documentation, or record means any 
contemporaneous record of any physician, hospital, clinic, or other 
certified or licensed health care provider, or any other records 
routinely and reasonably relied on by physicians in making a diagnosis.
    (l) Onset or incidence of a specified compensable disease means the 
date a physician first diagnosed the disease.
    (m) Parent means the natural or adoptive father or mother of the 
claimant.
    (n) Program or Radiation Exposure Compensation Program means the 
component of the Constitutional and Specialized Tort Litigation Section 
of the Torts Branch of the Civil Division of the United States 
Department of Justice designated by the Attorney General to execute the 
powers, duties, and responsibilities assigned to the Attorney General 
pursuant to pertinent provisions of the Act.
    (o) Spouse means a wife or husband who was married to the claimant 
for a period of at least one (1) year immediately before the death of 
the claimant.
    (p) Trust Fund or Fund means the Radiation Exposure Compensation 
Trust Fund in the Department of the Treasury, administered by the 
Secretary of the Treasury pursuant to section 3 of the Act.