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EECAP's Ongoing Projects

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Creating Brochures and Fact Sheets

EEOICPA is complicated.  EECAP is working on developing a set of brochures and fact sheets to help claimants understand the process.  We will post these on the website as we finish them.  We hope that claimants. advocates, attorneys, and the agencies involved in the program will find them useful.

Should Scioto Laboratory in Marion Ohio be designated as an AEC Site?

EECAP is investigating documents to determine if Scioto Lab, which was owned by the AEC, qualifies as an AEC site under EEOICPA.  Stay tuned for more information!

Mound 1959-1980 Special Exposure Cohort Issue

The criteria for the 1959-1980 Mound SEC is that workers need evidence that they had at least one tritium bioassay sample.  Currently, Department of Labor is only approving these claims if a worker's name appears on a list that NIOSH created from Mound tritium bioassay logbooks.  If a claimant's name does not appear on the NIOSH list then the claim is not paid, even when other Mound documents verifying the tritium bioassay sample was done is provided.  EECAP researched historical Mound documents and found evidence that Mound had several different ways of recording Mound tritium bioassay samples and provided this information to DOL on January 13, 2011.  DOL has not responded.

On March 8, 2011 EECAP sent an additional, more specific report to NIOSH and DOL supporting payment of one claim.  Neither NIOSH nor DOL has responded.

NIOSH responded to an EECAP Freedom of Information Act request with letters between DOL DEEOIC Director Leiton and NIOSH DCAS Director Hinnefeld.  Reading these letters helps explain how the problem with the definition of the class came about.

Workers at the Dayton Project will be covered under Part E

Workers from the Dayton Project site currently are only eligible for Part B claims.  EECAP feels this is a mistake and found evidence in historical documents that proved workers at Units 3 and 4 should be eligible for Part E claims as well.  EECAP supplied this information to DOL on December 30, 2010.  DOL concluded that the evidence EECAP submitted was not sufficient.  EECAP is continuing to investigate the issue.

EECAP submitted a new report containing new evidence to DOL on April 28, 2011.  On September 22, 2011 DOL replied in a letter that they agreed that the Dayton Project is a DOE site and have started the process to change the designation.  The process is involved and will not happen quickly but it is underway.  We will keep you updated here.

On February 6, 2012 Department of Energy published a notice that the Dayton Project is no longer an AWE site.  This does not effect any claims previously paid.  The next step will be for it to be designated as a DOE site.  We will update you here as soon as this happens.