# Pacific Proving Grounds
**AGENCY:**
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
**ACTION:**
Notice.
**SUMMARY:**
The Department of Health and Human Services gives notice as required by 42 CFR 83.12(e) of a decision to evaluate a petition to designate a class of employees at the Pacific Proving Grounds, to be included in the Special Exposure Cohort under the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act of 2000. The initial proposed definition for the class being evaluated, subject to revision as warranted by the evaluation, is as follows:
*Facility:* Pacific Proving Grounds, Marshall Islands.
*Locations:* Enewetak Atoll.
*Job Titles and/or Job Duties:* All scientists and scientific couriers.
*Period of Employment:* July 1, 1958, until August 31, 1958 (Operation Hardtack I).
**FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:**
Larry Elliott, Director, Office of Compensation Analysis and Support, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, 4676 Columbia Parkway, MS C-46, Cincinnati, OH 45226, telephone 513-533-6800 (this is not a toll-free number). Information requests can also be submitted by e-mail to *[email protected]* .
Dated: April 28, 2005.
James D. Seligman,
Associate Director for Program Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.