Division of Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation (DEEOIC)
Special Exposure Cohort Employees (SEC)
The Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act established a Special Exposure Cohort (SEC) for certain classes of employees. The SEC allows eligible claimants to be compensated without the completion of a NIOSH radiation dose reconstruction or determination of the probability of causation. To qualify for compensation as a member of an SEC class, a covered employee must have at least one of the 22 specified cancers and worked for a specified period of time at one of the SEC work sites. The statutory SEC classes include employees who have been diagnosed with a specified cancer and who:
- worked at gaseous diffusion plants in Paducah, Kentucky, Portsmouth, Ohio, or Oak Ridge, Tennessee for a total of at least 250 days before February 1, 1992, and were monitored for radiation exposure with dosimetry badges or had jobs with similar exposures to those monitored.
- worked before January 1, 1974, on Amchitka Island, Alaska and were exposed to radiation related to the Long Shot, Milrow or Cannikin underground nuclear tests.
The Act also authorizes the Secretary of Health and Human Services to add other classes of employees to the SEC. The following additional classes of employees have been added to the SEC. These include employees who worked for a number of work days aggregating at least 250 work days occurring either solely under one employment class or in combination with work days within the parameters established for one or more other classes of employees in the SEC, and:
- were monitored or should have been monitored for exposure to ionizing radiation while working at Allied Chemical Corporation Plant in Metropolis, Illinois, from January 1, 1959 through December 31, 1976.
- worked at the Ames Laboratory in one or more of the following facilities/locations: Chemistry Annex 1 (also known as "the old women’s gymnasium" and "Little Ankeny"), Chemistry Annex 2, Chemistry Building (also known as "Gilman Hall"), Research Building, or the Metallurgical Building (also known as "Harley Wilhelm Hall") from January 1, 1942 through December 31, 1954.
- worked in any area of the Ames Laboratory at Iowa State University, from August 13, 1942 through December 31, 1970.
- worked in any area of the Department of Energy facility at the Ames Laboratory from January 1, 1955 through December 31, 1960.
- Sheet metal workers, physical plant maintenance and associated support staff (including all maintenance shop personnel), and supervisory staff who were monitored or should have been monitored for potential internal radiation exposures associated with the maintenance and renovation activities of the thorium production areas in Wilhelm Hall (a.k.a. the Metallurgy Building or “Old” Metallurgy Building) at the Ames Laboratory from January 1, 1955 through December 31, 1970.
- worked in any area of Area IV of the Santa Susana Field Laboratory from January 1, 1955 through December 31, 1958.
- worked in any area of Area IV of the Santa Susana Field Laboratory from January 1, 1959 through December 31, 1964.
- worked at Bethlehem Steel Corporation facility in Lackawanna, New York from January 1, 1949 through December 31, 1952.
- worked at the Blockson Chemical Company in Joliet, Illinois from March 1, 1951 through June 30, 1960.
- worked at Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton, New York, from January 1, 1947 to December 31, 1979.
- worked at BWX Technologies, Inc. in Lynchburg, Virginia from January 1, 1959 through December 31, 1959; and/or from January 1, 1968 through December 31, 1972.
- worked at BWX Technologies, Inc., in Lynchburg, Virginia, during the period from January 1, 1985 through November 30, 1994.
- worked at the Canoga Avenue Facility, Los Angeles County, California, from January 1, 1955 through December 31, 1960.
- worked at the Combustion Engineering site in Windsor, Connecticut from January 1, 1965 through December 31, 1972.
- worked at the Connecticut Aircraft Nuclear Engine Laboratory in Middletown, Connecticut, from January 1, 1958, through December 31, 1965.
- worked at the De Soto Avenue Facility in Los Angeles County, California, from January 1, 1959 through December 31, 1964.
- were monitored or should have been monitored for exposure to thorium radionuclides while working at the Dow Chemical Company in Madison, Illinois from January 1, 1957 through December 31, 1960.
- worked at the Downey Facility in Los Angeles County, California from January 1, 1948 through December 31, 1955.
- were monitored or should have been monitored for exposure to ionizing radiation while working at the General Atomics facility in La Jolla, California, at the following locations: Science Laboratories A,B, and C (Building 2); Experimental Building (Building 9); Maintenance (Building 10); Service Building (Building 11); Buildings 21 and 22: Hot Cell Facility (Building 23; Waste Yard (Buildings 25 and 26); Experimental Area (Building 27 and 27-1); LINAC Complex (Building 30); HTGR-TCF (Building 31); Fusion Building (Building 33); Fusion Doublet III (Building 34: SV-A (Building 37); SV-B (Building 39); and SV-D (no building number) from January 1, 1960 through December 31, 1969.
- worked at General Electric Co. in Evendale, Ohio, from January 1, 1961 through June 30, 1970.
- worked at the Grand Junction Operations Office from March 23, 1943 through January 31, 1975.
- were monitored or should have been monitored for internal radiological exposures while working at the Hanford Engineer Works in: the 300 Area fuel fabrication and research facilities from October 1, 1943 through August 31, 1946; the 200 Area plutonium separation facilities from November 1, 1944 through August 31, 1946; or the 100 B, D and F reactor areas from September 1, 1944 through August 31, 1946.
- worked from September 1, 1946 though December 31, 1961 in the 300 area; or January 1, 1949 through December 31, 1968 in the 200 areas (East and West) at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Richland, Washington.
- worked at the Hanford site in Richland, Washington, from October 1, 1943 through June 30, 1972.
- were monitored or should have been monitored while working at the Harshaw Harvard-Denison Plant located at 1000 Harvard Avenue in Cleveland, Ohio from August 14, 1942 through November 30, 1949.
- worked in the Hood Building in Cambridge, MA, from May 9, 1946 through December 31, 1963.
- worked at the Horizons, Inc. facility from January 1, 1952 through December 31, 1956.
- worked at the Iowa Ordnance Plant (Iowa Army Ammunition Plant), Line 1, during the period from March 1949 through 1974.
- worked as radiographers from May 1948 to March 1949 in support of Line 1 operations at the Iowa Army Ammunition Plant.
- worked at the Kellex/Pierpont facility in Jersey City, New Jersey from January 1, 1943 through December 31, 1953.
- worked at Lake Ontario Ordnance Works from January 1, 1944 through December 31, 1953.
- worked at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley, California, from August 13, 1942 through December 31, 1961.
- worked at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, California from January 1, 1950 through December 31, 1973.
- were monitored for radiation exposure while working at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory from January 1, 1950 through December 31, 1973.
- worked at the Linde Ceramics Plant from October 1, 1942 through October 31, 1947.
- worked at the Linde Ceramics Plant in Tonawanda, New York, from January 1, 1954 through December 31, 1969.
- were monitored or should have been monitored for exposure to ionizing radiation associated with radioactive lanthanum (RaLa) operations at Technical Area 10 (Bayo Canyon Site), Technical Area 35 (Ten Site), and Buildings H, Sigma, and U (located within Technical Area 1) at the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) from September 1, 1944 through July 18, 1963.
- were monitored or should have been monitored for radiological exposures while working in operational Technical Areas with a history of radioactive material use at the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) from March 15, 1943 through December 31, 1975.
- worked at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in Los Alamos, New Mexico from March 15, 1943 through December 31, 1975.
- worked at the Uranium Division of the Mallinckrodt Chemical Works, Destrehan Street Facility during the period from 1942 through 1948.
- worked in the Uranium Division of the Destrehan Street Facility of Mallinckrodt Chemical Works from 1949 to 1957.
- worked in Uranium Division at the Mallinckrodt Chemical Co.,Destrehan Street Plant , in St. Louis, Missouri, from January 1, 1958 to December 31, 1958.
- worked at the Metallurgical Laboratory in Chicago, Illinois, from August 13, 1942 through June 30, 1946.
- worked at Metals and Controls Corp. in Attleboro, MA, from January 1, 1952 to December 31, 1967.
- were monitored or should have been monitored for exposure to ionizing radiation while working at Monsanto Chemical Company Units I, III, or IV in Dayton, Ohio, from January 1, 1943 through December 31, 1949.
- worked in any areas at the Mound Plant site from October 1, 1949 through February 28, 1959.
- had at least one tritium bioassay sample and worked at the Mound Plant in Miamisburg, Ohio from March 1, 1959 through March 5, 1980.
- worked at the Nevada Test Site from January 27, 1951 through December 31, 1962.
- worked at the Nevada Test Site, from January 1, 1963 through December 31, 1992.
- worked at Norton Company in Worcester, Massachusetts, from January 1, 1945 through December 31, 1957.
- worked in any building or area at the facility owned by the Norton Co. (or a subsequent owner) in Worcester, Massachusetts, during the period from January 1, 1958 through October 10, 1962.
- worked at the Nuclear Materials and Equipment Corporation (NUMEC) facility in Parks Township, Pennsylvania, from June 1, 1960 through December 31, 1980.
- were monitored or should have been monitored for exposure to ionizing radiation while working at the NUMEC in Apollo, Pennsylvania from January 1, 1957 through December 31, 1983.
- worked in any location at the Oak Ridge Hospital in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, from May 15, 1950 through December 31, 1959.
- were monitored or should have been monitored while working at the Oak Ridge Institute of Nuclear Studies Cancer Research Hospital from May 15, 1950 through December 31, 1963.
- worked at the Pacific Proving Grounds (PPG) from 1946 through 1962.
- worked at the Piqua Organic Moderated Reactor site during the covered period from May 2, 1966 through February 28, 1969.
- worked at Revere Copper and Brass in Detroit, Michigan, from July 24, 1943 through December 31, 1954.
- were monitored or should have been monitored for neutron exposures while working at the Rocky Flats Plant in Golden, Colorado, from April 1, 1952 through December 31, 1958 and/or January 1, 1959 through December 31, 1966.
- worked in the Pupin, Schemerhorn, Havenmeyer, Nash, or Prentiss buildings at SAM (Special Alloyed or Substitute Alloy Materials) Laboratories of Columbia University in New York City, New York, from August 13, 1942 through December 31, 1947.
- worked in any area at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, New Mexico from January 1, 1949 through December 31, 1962.
- worked at Simonds Saw and Steel Company from January 1, 1948 through December 31, 1957.
- were monitored or should have been monitored while working at the S-50 Oak Ridge Thermal Diffusion Plant during the period from July 9, 1944 through December 31, 1951.
- were at Spencer Chemical Company/Jayhawk Works near Pittsburg, Kansas, from January 1, 1956 through December 31, 1961.
- worked at Standard Oil Development Company in Linden, New Jersey, during the period from August 13, 1942 through December 31, 1945, and were monitored, or should have been monitored, for exposure to ionizing radiation.
- who worked in any area and in any job capacity at the St. Louis Airport Storage Site in St. Louis, Missouri from January 3, 1947 through November 2, 1971.
- worked at Texas City Chemicals, Inc., from October 5, 1953, through September 30, 1955.
- worked at Tyson Valley Powder Farm near Eureka, Missouri, from February 13, 1946 through June 30, 1948.
- worked at the University of Rochester Atomic Energy Project in Rochester, New York, from September 1, 1943 through October 30, 1971.
- worked at Vitro Manufacturing in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania, from August 13, 1942 through December 31, 1957.
- worked at Vitro Manufacturing in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania, from January 1, 1958 through December 31, 1959.
- worked at Vitro Manufacturing in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania, from January 1, 1960 through September 30, 1965.
- worked in any building at the Wah Chang facility in Albany, Oregon, for the operational period from January 1, 1971 through December 31, 1972.
- worked at Westinghouse Atomic Power Development Plant in East Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, from August 13, 1942 through December 31, 1944.
- worked at Westinghouse Electric Corp., Bloomfield, New Jersey, from August 13, 1942 through December 31, 1949.
- were monitored or should have been monitored for potential exposure to thorium while working in any of the 100 series buildings or Buildings 220, 230, 233, 234, 301 or 310 at the W.R. Grace site at Erwin, Tennessee from January 1, 1958 through December 31, 1970.
- worked in any building or area at the facility owned by W.R. Grace and Co. in Curtis Bay, Maryland, for the operational period from May 1, 1956 through January 31, 1958.
- worked at the Y-12 facility in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, from January 1, 1948 though December 31, 1957.
- worked in uranium enrichment operations or other radiological activities at the Y-12 Plant in Oak Ridge, Tennessee from March 1943 through December 1947.
- worked at the Y-12 Plant and were monitored or should have been monitored for:
- thorium exposures while working in Building 9201-3, 9202, 9204-1, 9204-3, 9206, or 9212 at Y-12 from January 1948 through December 1957; or
- radionuclide exposures associated with cyclotron operations in Building 9201-2 at Y-12 from January 1948 through December 1957.
- worked at the Y-12 Plant in Oak Ridge, Tennessee from March 1, 1943 through December 31, 1947.
These employees, or their survivors, are eligible for benefits if, after beginning covered employment, they contracted one or more of the following specified cancers:
- bone cancer;
- renal cancer;
- leukemia (other than chronic lymphocytic leukemia) provided that the onset of the disease was at least two years after first exposure;
- lung cancer (other than in situ lung cancer that is discovered during or after a post-mortem exam); or one of the following diseases, provided onset was at least five years after the first exposure:
- multiple myeloma;
- lymphomas (other than Hodgkin’s disease); or Primary cancer of the:
- thyroid
- male or female breast
- esophagus
- stomach
- pharynx
- small intestine
- pancreas
- bile ducts
- gall bladder
- salivary gland
- urinary bladder
- brain
- colon
- ovary
- liver (except if cirrhosis or hepatitis B is indicated)
