[CPEO-MEF] HEALTH, RADIATION: Hanford (WA) workers

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Hanford workers new cancer package OK'd

By Annette Cary
Tri-City Herald (WA)
December 17, 2009


WASHINGTON - The federal secretary of Health and Human Services has 
agreed to expand automatic compensation of $150,000 to more Hanford 
workers who may have developed cancer because of exposure to radiation.

If Congress does not object, the decision by Secretary Kathleen Sebelius 
takes effect Jan. 10. The action was recommended in October by a federal 
advisory board.

The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, or NIOSH, 
will review 340 pending claims of former Hanford workers, some filed by 
their survivors. The claims are for workers who had cancers covered 
under the automatic compensation program and who worked at Hanford 
during the years the new expanded rules would cover.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.tri-cityherald.com/kennewick_pasco_richland/story/833295.html

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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
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
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