# Determination Concerning a Petition To Add a Class of Employees to 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 (HHS).
**ACTION:**
Notice.
**SUMMARY:**
HHS gives notice of a determination concerning a petition to add a class of employees from the Westinghouse Electric Corporation in Bloomfield, NJ, to the Special Exposure Cohort (SEC) under the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act of 2000 (EEOICPA).
**FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:**
Stuart L. Hinnefeld, Director, Division of Compensation Analysis and Support, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), 1090 Tusculum Avenue, MS C-46, Cincinnati, OH 45226-1938, Telephone 1-877-222-7570. Information requests can also be submitted by email to *[email protected].*
**SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:**
**Authority:**
[42 U.S.C. 7384q].
On December 21, 2016, the Secretary of HHS determined that the following class of employees does not meet the statutory criteria for addition to the SEC as authorized under EEOICPA:
All Atomic Weapons Employees who worked in any area at the Westinghouse Electric Corporation in Bloomfield, New Jersey, during the time periods from January 1, 1950, through January 31, 1958; June 1, 1958, through May 31, 1959; and July 1, 1959, through April 30, 2000.
John Howard,
Director, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health.