Decision to Evaluate a Petition to Designate a Class of Employees from the Sandia National Laboratory-Livermore in Livermore, California To Be Included in the Special Exposure Cohort

---
identifier: "/us/fr/2013-21991"
source: "fr"
legal_status: "authoritative_unofficial"
title: "Decision to Evaluate a Petition to Designate a Class of Employees from the Sandia National Laboratory-Livermore in Livermore, California To Be Included in the Special Exposure Cohort"
title_number: 0
title_name: "Federal Register"
section_number: "2013-21991"
section_name: "Decision to Evaluate a Petition to Designate a Class of Employees from the Sandia National Laboratory-Livermore in Livermore, California To Be Included in the Special Exposure Cohort"
positive_law: false
currency: "2013-09-13"
last_updated: "2013-09-13"
format_version: "1.1.0"
generator: "[email protected]"
agency: "Health and Human Services Department"
document_number: "2013-21991"
document_type: "notice"
publication_date: "2013-09-13"
agencies:
  - "Health and Human Services Department"
fr_citation: "78 FR 56706"
fr_volume: 78
fr_action: "Notice."
---


#  Decision to Evaluate a Petition to Designate a Class of Employees from the Sandia National Laboratory-Livermore in Livermore, California To Be Included in the Special Exposure Cohort

**AGENCY:**

National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Department of Health and Human Services.

**ACTION:**

Notice.

**SUMMARY:**

NIOSH gives notice as required by Department of Health and  Human Services regulations of a decision to evaluate a petition to designate a class of employees from the Sandia National Laboratory-Livermore in Livermore, California to be included in the Special Exposure Cohort under the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act of 2000.

**FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:**

Stuart L. Hinnefeld, Director, Division of Compensation Analysis and Support, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, 4676 Columbia Parkway, MS C-46, Cincinnati, OH 45226, Telephone 877-222-7570. Information requests can also be submitted by email to *[email protected].*

**SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:**

The initial proposed definition for the class being evaluated, subject to revision as warranted by the evaluation, is as follows:

*Facility:* Sandia National Laboratory-Livermore

*Location:* Livermore, California.

*Job Titles and/or Job Duties:* All employees of the Department of Energy, its predecessor agencies, and its contractors and subcontractors who worked in any area.

*Period of Employment:* January 1, 1956 through December 31, 1994.

**Authority:**

42 CFR 83.12(e).

John Howard,

Director, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health.