[CPEO-MEF] RADIATION, HEALTH: Santa Susana Field Lab (CA) workers

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Ruling will help field lab workers

By Teresa Rochester
Ventura County Star (CA)
August 10, 2009

Certain workers sickened by exposure to radiation while working in the 
nuclear testing area at the Santa Susana Field Laboratory might have an 
easier time now receiving federal compensation.

The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health granted a 
petition that gives special designation to workers stricken with 
radiation-induced cancers after working in the nuclear test area at the 
site, known as Area IV, between Jan. 1, 1955, and Dec. 31, 1958, for at 
least 250 days.

...

The Energy Employees Occupational Illness Program Act was passed in 2000 
with the intention of compensating people who had become ill because of 
exposures to radiation or toxic chemicals while building the country's 
nuclear defense as Department of Energy employees or subcontractors. The 
program has two parts: one for workers exposed to radiation and another 
for those exposed to toxic chemicals.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.venturacountystar.com/news/2009/aug/10/ruling-will-help-field-lab-workers/

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
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