S. 2047 · 108th Congress

A bill to amend the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act of 2000 to include certain former nuclear weapons program workers in the Special Exposure Cohort under the compensation program established by that Act.

Stage
In committee
Sponsor
Kit Bond
Introduced
2004-02-02
Latest action
2004-02-02 · Introduced in Senate

Summary

Amends the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act of 2000 to include within its Special Exposure Cohort certain employees who during their employment at a facility operated under contract to the Department of Energy (DOE) by Mallinkrodt Incorporated: (1) were monitored through the use of dosimetry badges for exposure at the plant of the external parts of an employee's body to radiation; (2) were monitored through the use of bioassays, in vivo monitoring, or breath samples for exposure at the plant to traternal radiation; or (3) worked in a job that had exposures comparable to a job that is monitored under DOE standards through the use of dosimetry badges for monitoring external radiation exposures, or bioassays, in vivo monitoring, or breath samples for internal radiation exposures.