Business · 28/04/2010
HHS to Evaluate Petition for Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program
The US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has announced its decision to evaluate a petition to include a class of employees from the Sandia National Laboratory in Albuquerque, New Mexico, in the Special Exposure Cohort under the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act of 2000, which covers workers who were exposed to radiation at the facility between 1957 and 1962.