# 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 Grand Junction Facilities, in Grand Junction, Colorado, 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:**
On June 21, 2018, 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 employees who worked in any area of the Grand Junction Facilities in Grand Junction, Colorado, from January 1, 1986, through July 31, 2010.”
**Authority:**
42 U.S.C.7384q.
John J. Howard,
Director, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health.