[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 20, Volume 1]
[Revised as of April 1, 2005]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 20CFR10.101]

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                      TITLE 20--EMPLOYEES' BENEFITS
 
CHAPTER I--OFFICE OF WORKERS' COMPENSATION PROGRAMS, DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
 
PART 10_CLAIMS FOR COMPENSATION UNDER THE FEDERAL EMPLOYEES' COMPENSATION 
ACT, AS AMENDED--Table of Contents
 
        Subpart B_Filing Notices and Claims; Submitting Evidence
 
Sec. 10.101  How and when is a notice of occupational disease filed?

    (a) To claim benefits under the FECA, an employee who has a disease 
which he or she believes to be work-related must give notice of the 
condition in writing on Form CA-2, which may be obtained from the 
employer or from the Internet at www.dol.gov./dol/esa/owcp.htm. The 
employee must forward this notice to the employer. Another person, 
including the employer, may do so on the employee's behalf. The person 
submitting a notice shall include the Social Security Number (SSN) of 
the injured employee. The claimant may withdraw his or her claim (but 
not the notice of occupational disease) by so requesting in writing to 
OWCP at any time before OWCP determines eligibility for benefits.
    (b) For occupational diseases sustained as a result of exposure to 
injurious work factors that occurs on or after September 7, 1974, a 
notice of occupational disease must be filed within three years of the 
onset of the condition. (The form contains the necessary words of 
claim.) The requirements for timely filing are described in Sec. 
10.100(b)(1) through (3).

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    (c) However, in cases of latent disability, the time for filing 
claim does not begin to run until the employee has a compensable 
disability and is aware, or reasonably should have been aware, of the 
causal relationship between the disability and the employment (see 5 
U.S.C. 8122(b)).