National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health to Evaluate Petition for Special Exposure Cohort Designation

Summary

The Department of Health and Human Services has decided to evaluate a petition to include Metallurgical Laboratory employees in the Special Exposure Cohort under the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act of 2000, affecting those who worked at the facility in Chicago, Illinois, from August 13, 1942 to June 30, 1946.