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Re: Bill in Congress
I see where this bill could be good for former DOE
workers having spent 11.5 years at hanford I see where
this could be helpful. A lot was done In the need of
top secrecy that was done that could have hurt a
worker.
--- ruth_weiner <ruth_weiner@email.msn.com> wrote:
> Please let's all write to our members of Congress
> about this travesty.
> Whatever one may think about second-hand smoke,
> remember that the flight
> attendants had to prove their case in court. So
> should these people!
>
> Ruth F. Weiner, Ph. D.
> 7336 Lew Wallace NE
> Albuquerque, NM
> 505-856-5011
> fax 505-856-5564
> ruth_weiner@msn.com
> -----Original Message-----
> From: D. Kosloff <dkosloff@ncweb.com>
> To: Multiple recipients of list
> <radsafe@romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu>
> Date: Friday, March 10, 2000 1:55 PM
> Subject: Re: Bill in Congress
>
>
> >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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