Re: ??? Nuclear Defense Worker Retraining Act of 1993 ???

[Douglas.Minnema@dp.doe.gov]

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Good afternoon, all.
    
Have any of you heard of the Nuclear Defense Worker Retraining Act of 1993?
    
If so,
    
1)  What does it entail?
    
2)  What is the legal citation number?
    
3)  Is it available on-line?  If so, where?
    
    
Thanks,
    
Jim Barnes, CHP
RSO
Rocketdyne Division; Boeing North American
    
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Subject: ??? Nuclear Defense Worker Retraining Act of 1993 ???
Author:  radsafe@romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu_at_internet at x400PO
Date:    4/22/97 9:22 PM


    The Nuclear Defense Worker Retraining Act of 1993 was enacted as 
    part of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1993, 
    and required the Secretary of Energy to provide for a variety of 
    opportunities for workers in the Department's defense related 
    facilities should they be displaced by restructuring of the complex. 
    I have copied a small section of the act below to give you some 
    flavor of its objectives.  This was found at the House Law Library 
    Web Site, law.house.gov:
    
    (c) Objectives
    
    In preparing the plan required under subsection (a) of this    
    section, the Secretary shall be guided by the following objectives:
    
    (1) Changes in the workforce at a Department of Energy defense
    nuclear facility -
    
    (A) should be accomplished so as to minimize social and        
    economic impacts;
    
    (B) should be made only after the provision of notice of           
    such changes not later than 120 days before the commencement         
    of such changes to such employees and the communities in which such  
    facilities are located; and
    
    (C) should be accomplished, when possible, through the use of        
    retraining, early retirement, attrition, and other options that      
    minimize layoffs.
    
    (2) Employees whose employment in positions at such facilities       
    is terminated shall, to the extent practicable, receive      
    preference in any hiring of the Department of Energy (consistent     
    with applicable employment seniority plans or practices of the       
    Department of Energy and with section 3152 of the National       
    Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 1990 and 1991 (Public     
    Law 101-189; 103 Stat. 1682)).
    
    (3) Employees shall, to the extent practicable, be retrained       
    for work in environmental restoration and waste management       
    activities at such facilities or other facilities of the       
    Department of Energy.
    
    (4) The Department of Energy should provide relocation
    assistance to employees who are transferred to other Department      
    of Energy facilities as a result of the plan.
    
    (5) The Department of Energy should assist terminated employees      
    in obtaining appropriate retraining, education, and reemployment     
    assistance (including employment placement assistance).
    
    
    Doug Minnema, CHP
    Defense Programs, DOE
    
    As with everybody, all thoughts are only my own.