To amend the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act of 2000 to provide for certain additional former nuclear weapons program workers to be included in the Special Exposure Cohort under the compensation program established by that Act.

Amends the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act of 2000 to include within its Special Exposure Cohort certain employees engaged in the nuclear weapons program at the Bethlehem Steel plant in Lackawanna, New York, who were directly exposed to material (including residual material) that emitted radiation beginning January 1, 1949, and ending on the date (to be determined by the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) of the Department of Health and Human Services) by which all such residual material was removed.

[Congressional Bills 108th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3689 Introduced in House (IH)]






108th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3689

To amend the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program 
 Act of 2000 to provide for certain additional former nuclear weapons 
program workers to be included in the Special Exposure Cohort under the 
             compensation program established by that Act.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            December 8, 2003

Mr. Quinn (for himself, Ms. Slaughter, and Mr. Reynolds) introduced the 
 following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, 
and in addition to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, for a 
 period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for 
consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the 
                          committee concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program 
 Act of 2000 to provide for certain additional former nuclear weapons 
program workers to be included in the Special Exposure Cohort under the 
             compensation program established by that Act.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. INCLUSION OF CERTAIN ADDITIONAL FORMER NUCLEAR WEAPONS 
              PROGRAM WORKERS IN SPECIAL EXPOSURE COHORT UNDER ENERGY 
              EMPLOYEES OCCUPATIONAL ILLNESS COMPENSATION PROGRAM.

    (a) Inclusion in Special Exposure Cohort.--Section 3621(14) of the 
Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act of 2000 
(42 U.S.C. 7384l(14)) is amended by adding at the end the following new 
subparagraph:
                    ``(D) The employee was so employed at the Bethlehem 
                Steel plant located in Lackawanna, New York, for a 
                number of work days aggregating at least 90 work days--
                            ``(i) which were during the period 
                        beginning on January 1, 1949, and ending on the 
                        date determined by the National Institute of 
                        Occupational Safety and Health of the 
                        Department of Health and Human Services to be 
                        the date as of which all residual radioactive 
                        material was removed from the site; and
                            ``(ii) during which the employee had direct 
                        exposure to material (including residual 
                        material) that emitted radiation.''.
    (b) Deadline for NIOSH Determination.--The National Institute of 
Occupational Safety and Health of the Department of Health and Human 
Services shall make the determination required by clause (i) of 
subparagraph (D) of section 3621(14) of the Energy Employees 
Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act of 2000, as added by 
subsection (a), not later than 90 days after the date of the enactment 
of this Act.
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