Re: Bill in Congress

["D. Kosloff" <dkosloff@ncweb.com>]

The purpose of this Bill is to buy votes with taxpayer money.  You have the
same number of votes regardless of dose.

Don Kosloff mailto:dkosloff@ncweb.com
2910 Main St Perry OH 44081

----- Original Message -----
From: Elizabeth M. Brackett <brackett@bright.net>
To: Multiple recipients of list <radsafe@romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu>
Sent: Friday, March 10, 2000 2:57 PM
Subject: Re: Bill in Congress


> I know there's a Weldon Springs site in St. Charles, Missouri.  Is there
> also a Weldon Spring in Maryland (and what was done there, if so), or is
> this a mistake?
>
> I notice there's no provision for dose.  Are they intending to give money
> to anyone who was ever monitored (or "should have been") at a DOE facility
> and gets cancer?   Very interesting, if so.  In the past we badged
everyone
> in Oak Ridge even if it wasn't required according to the regulations. A
> major part of the justification was that, in the event of a lawsuit, it
was
> better to have records showing no dose rather than having no record for
the
> individual.  Apparently that logic was flawed!
>
> Liz Brackett
>
> >
> >A BILL
> >To establish a compensation program for Department of Energy employees
> >injured in Federal nuclear activities.
> >
> >Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United
> States
> >of America in Congress assembled,
> >
> >SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
> >
> >This Act may be cited as the `Department of Energy Nuclear Employees
> Exposure
> >Compensation Act'.
> >
>     <snip>
>
> >SEC. 3. DEFINITIONS.
> >
> >For purposes of this Act:
> >
> >(1) DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY- The term `Department of Energy' includes the
> >predecessor agencies of the Department.
> >
> >(2) DOE NUCLEAR EMPLOYEE- The term DOE nuclear employee` means an
individual
> >employed by--
> >
> >(A) the Department of Energy;
> >
> >(B) an entity that contracted with the Department of Energy to provide
> >management and operations, management and integration, production,
testing,
> >research, development, environmental remediation, or waste management at
> >facilities at locations, including the following:
> >
> >(i) Portsmouth, Ohio;
> >
> >(ii) Paducah, Kentucky.
> >
> >(iii) O.R. K-25, Tennessee;
> >
> >(iv) O.R. Y-12, Tennessee;
> >
> >(v) O.R. X-10, Tennessee;
> >
> >(vi) Hanford, Washington;
> >
> >(vii) Idaho National Engineering Laboratory;
> >
> >(viii) Rocky Flats, Colorado;
> >
> >(ix) Fernald, Ohio;
> >
> >(x) Miamisburg, Ohio;
> >
> >(xi) Los Alamos National Laboratory, New Mexico;
> >
> >(xii) Pinellas, Florida;
> >
> >(xiii) Pantex, Texas;
> >
> >(xiv) Nevada Test Site;
> >
> >(xv) Brookhaven, New York;
> >
> >(xvi) Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory;
> >
> >(xvii) Sandia National Laboratory, New Mexico
> >
> >(xviii) Burlington, Iowa;
> >
> >(xix) Fermi Nuclear Facility, Illinois;
> >
> >(xx) Weldon Spring, Maryland; or
> >
> >(xxi) Savannah River, South Carolina
> >
> >(xxii) Argonne National Lab, Illinois
> >
> >(C) a supplier that supplied uranium conversion or manufacturing
services,
> >including Allied Signal Facility in Metropolis, Illinois, Nuclear Fuels
> >Services in Erwin, Tennessee, Linde Air Products, Tonowanda, New York,
and
> >Reactive Metals in Ashtabula, Ohio.
> >
>    <remainder deleted>
>
>
> ******************************
>   Elizabeth M. Brackett, CHP
>      Sr. Health Physicist
>      MJW Corporation, Inc.
>        (330) 644-3757
>   mailto:brackett@bright.net
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