Division of Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation (DEEOIC)

New Special Exposure Cohort (SEC)
The Pantex Plant

On January 4, 2017, the Secretary of Health and Human Services designated the following class for addition to the SEC in a report to Congress:

All employees of the Department of Energy, its predecessor agencies, and their contractors and subcontractors who worked at the Pantex Plant in Amarillo, Texas during the period from January 1, 1951 through December 31, 1957, for a number of work days aggregating at least 250 work days, occurring either solely under this employment or in combination with work days within the parameters established for one or more other classes of employees in the Special Exposure Cohort.

Circular 17-02*

Posted February 27, 2017