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Advisory Board on Toxic Substances and Worker Health – April 27, 2016

The following is taken from the transcript of the Advisory Board on Radiation and Worker Health, Department of Labor, 200 Constitution Ave., N.W., Washington, D.C. Causation Under Parts B and E of the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act “Thank you, Dr. Markowitz. I just wanted to say a few words about causation. We […]

Advisory Board on Radiation and Worker Health – November 30th, 2016

The following is taken from the transcript of the Advisory Board on Radiation and Worker Health, Hilton Hotel, Santa Fe, New Mexico, November 30, 2016. We hope to develop issues such as these in order to make the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act that much better by improving the NIOSH dose reconstruction process. […]

Amchitka Island Nuclear Explosion Site

Amchitka Island-Nuclear-Explosion-Site

Amchitka Island Nuclear Explosion Site Amchitka is a volcanic, tectonically unstable island that is part of the Aleutian Islands chain in southwester Alaska.  Located roughly 1,000 miles off the western coast of Alaska, this island was home to a small population of native Aleut for nearly 2,500 years, until around 1832.  After that year, the island was abandoned […]

Castle Bravo Nuclear Bomb – Pacific Proving Grounds

In 1946, the United States began testing atomic bombs in an area known as the Pacific Proving Grounds. The Pacific Proving Grounds included a number of sites located at the Marshall Islands, a remote group of islands in the Central Pacific Ocean. From 1946 until 1963, the United States detonated 105 nuclear weapons at the […]

The Baneberry Incident – Nevada Test Site

By 1963, the citizens of the United States as well as others in the international community were becoming increasingly aware of the health implications, environmental risks, and national security risks of nuclear testing. The United States, United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union signed the Partial Test Ban Treaty in August 1963. This treaty established a […]

CO Representatives applaud new EEOICPA Advisory Board

Two members of the U.S. House of Representatives,  Ed Perlmutter (CO-07) and Jared Polis (CO-02) recently commended the first meeting of the Advisory Board on Toxic Substances and Worker Health for Part E of the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act (EEOICPA) which took place in Washington, DC on April 26-28, 2016 . While the EEOICPA […]

DOL extends comment period on proposed rule changes

The Department of Labor (DOL) announced last Tuesday that they would reopen the comment period for the rule changes to adjudication of EEOICPA claims that they proposed last November, after having originally extended the comment period for an additional month in January. The comment period is now open for another 33 days, lasting until May 9. While […]

U. S. Government Accountability Office publishes review of DOL adjudication process

On March 10, 2016, the U. S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) published the results of its recent study of the Department of Labor (DOL) EEOICPA claims adjudication process. Using a random sample of 200 Part E claims from among 15,932 filed from 2010 through 2014, excluding claims still in process, claims which had already been accepted under […]