HHS Designates Y-12 Facility Employees for Special Exposure Cohort

Summary

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has decided to add a class of employees at the Y-12 facility in Oak Ridge, Tennessee to the Special Exposure Cohort (SEC) under the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act of 2000, affecting DOE employees and contractors who worked in uranium enrichment operations from 1943 to 1947 and accumulated at least 250 work days.